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Cadwallader Name Meaning and History

Welsh: from a personal name composed of the elements cad ‘battle’ + gwaladr ‘leader’.

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Cadwallader Civil War Service
Cadwallader VeteransAllegianceTotal Veterans of
the Civil War
16Confederate1,050,000
47Union2,213,363
63Combined3,263,363
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