Brook P. Patterson

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1840-12-22

Death Date

1918-02-28

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White

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"Brook P. Patterson" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00014458, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Lyon County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of James Patterson and Nancy Patterson. Student in Caldwell County in 1850. Laborer in Lyon County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 1st Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from October 1861 to May 22, 1865. Captured at Lyon County on December 23, 1862. Prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio from January 10, 1863 to March 28, 1863. Exchanged by order of Colonel William Hoffman in 1863. Signed a loyalty oath to the U. S. government on May 22, 1865
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Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 303A-B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, p. 679.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0004.
"Brook P. Patterson (1840-1918)," Find A Grave, Memorial #31179262, accessed May 13, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31179262.

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