Gustavus Murray Bascom

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1840

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1884-08-16

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"Gustavus Murray Bascom" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00018350, (accessed April 9, 2025).

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Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, soldier. Ohio native. Son of William T. Bascom and Emily Bascom. Resident of Franklin County, Ohio, in 1850. Graduate of Norwich University in Northfield, Washington County, Vermont in 1860. Served as aid-de-camp, Ohio Volunteers (U.S.A), as a captain from April 23, 1861 to August 15, 1861. Served as an assistant adjutant general of volunteers (U.S.A.) as a captain, major, and lieutenant colonel from August 20, 1861 through December 31, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Franklin County, Columbus/Ward 3, p. 287A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Franklin County, Columbus/Ward 4, p. 321.
Francis B Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 vol. 1, pt. II (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903), 197.
U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, Norwich University, 1862, page 9.

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