★★★ Thompson, Albert Petty

Albert Petty Thompson​

Born: March 3, 1829

Birthplace: Green County, Kentucky

Father: Samuel Connor Thompson

Mother: Alice Petty 1800 – 1877

1st​ Wife: Mary Jane Bowman 1831 – 1853

2nd​ Wife: Harriet Ann Harding 1836 – 1861

(Buried: Bowman Cemetery, Murray Calloway County, Kentucky)​

3rd​ Wife: Mary Elizabeth Mayes 1842 – 1901

Children:

Horace A. Thompson 1855 – 1856​

(Buried: Bowman Cemetery, Murray Calloway County, Kentucky)​

Occupation before War:

Attorney in Murray and Paducah, Kentucky​

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Commonwealth Attorney for McCracken County, Kentucky​

Civil War Career:

1861: Lt. Colonel 3rd​ Kentucky Infantry Regiment​

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1861 – 1864: Colonel of 3rd​ Kentucky Infantry Regiment​

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1862: Wounded during the Battle of Baton Rouge, Louisiana​

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1864: Served under Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest​

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1864: Killed by Cannon Shot at Paducah, Kentucky​

Died: March 25, 1864

Place of Death: Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky

Age at time of Death: 35 years old

Burial Place: Bowman Cemetery, Murray Calloway County, Kentucky

 

[donna]

Thanks for posting. I always try to learn all who served from Kentucky.

 

[Pollaco]

That mortal wound that he received was within sight of his home in Paducah, Kentucky within the same month that he joined Forrest's cavalry.