Achilles Combes

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c1840

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1861-11-12

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"Achilles Combes" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00016312, (accessed April 22, 2025).

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Hopkins County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of William Combes and Mary Combes. Student in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned one enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farm laborer in Hopkins County in 1860. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Served in the 8th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as private from October 9, 1861. Died of measles while in service on November 11, 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 167A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 712.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 732.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 215B.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994039, Hopkins County Deaths.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 378-79.

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