Wellington Harlan

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1833-01-21

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1892

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"Wellington Harlan" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020165, (accessed May 18, 2025).

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Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer and solider. Kentucky native. Son of Jehu Harlan and Clarissa Black Harlan. Farmer in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860. Served in the Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from October 9, 1861 to June 7, 1862. Farmer in Boyle County in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 857.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 42A.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 481.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Boyle County, KY, August 1863, p. 7.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 628.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0183.
Alpheus H. Harlan, ed.History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family, Vol. 1. (Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1881), p.273.
"Wellington Harlan (1833-1892)," Find A Grave, Memorial 57099646, accessed June 1, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57099646.

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