John Thornton Sinclair

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1839-01-24

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1899-06-08

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"John Thornton Sinclair" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00017441, (accessed May 28, 2024).

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Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky, native. Married to Mary Elizabeth Massie Sinclair in Scott County, Kentucky on December 18, 1865. Resident of Scott County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Scott County in 1860. Served in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a second lieutenant from September 2, 1862. Captured at Buffington, Indiana, on July 19, 1863 to June 1865. Reported as a prisoner of war at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Fort Delaware, Delaware.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 473B-474A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 938.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0035.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, Film #007731872, p. 28.
U.S. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M598, War Department Collection of Confederate Records, p. 147.
"LT John Thornton Sinclair (1839-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial #99033108, accessed April 16, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99033108.

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