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"Surnames (that is, 'over' names, or names over and above what you had before) were practically unknown in England before the year 1200, when the noblemen began to assume them; and it was a hundred years later be- fore the citizens generally began to assume them. The people at large assumed surnames according to individual fancy, regardless of the relationship existing between them; thus, of 'three brothers,' one might be called Green, another Dixon (Dick's son), and the third Timberleg; for a man did not always choose his own surname, but his neighbors frequently gave him his nickname as a surname. The surnames were derived from a variety of general sources; from occupations, as Smith, Taylor, Cook; from colors, as Redd, White, Blue ; from places or localities, as London, At- Wood, de Quincey; from personal peculiar- ities, as Timberleg (now Timberlake) for a man with a wooden leg; or Cockeye (now Cockey) for a man with a cock-eye; or either Fairfax or Whitehead for a flaxen-haired man ; or from personal feats as Pierce-Eye (Percy) for a man who in battle had pierced his op- ponent's eye with a spear; or Shakespear, which explains itself, and so on through the whole category.
"A very distinguished name in Kentucky is said to have originated from the fact that several members of the clan McIlvaine set- tled upon a mountain ridge in the highlands of Scotland. Upon this ridge the furze which the Scotch spell 'breckan' and pronounce 'bracken,' grew very profusely; and the name of that mountain was Breckan Ridge (pro- nounced "Bracken Ridge"), and the McIlvaines who made their homes there soon assumed, or had bestowed upon them, the patronymic of Breckanridge-and that is the original Scot- tish spelling of the name. The genealogist who becomes absorbed in his subject is sure to find the study of the origin of surnames the most intensely interesting and fascinating part of his work-if it can properly be called work.
"Genealogical researches in England will, of course, have to be pursued, as a general thing, through the professional genealogists of that country, whose prices are usually higher than the back of an exasperated cat. There is this consolation, however, about the matter-once your record agent gets a clue to your family, he is almost certain to be able to trace it back for several centuries. It is believed that any old family whose genealogy can be traced back two or three generations can almost certainly be traced back to the Re- formation. English genealogy, as a rule, may be said to begin with the rise of heraldry and the general adoption of surnames. Only a very few families can trace themselves reli- ably to that much-sought-for starting point, the Norman Conquest. Indeed, for the great majority of English families the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are the extreme limit of antiquity to which they can hope to attain.
"Even an undistinguished family of good people when traced back for several centuries will be sure to disclose a very interesting his- tory. The writer of this chapter became in- terested in the genealogy of his family nearly forty years ago, mainly through an intense curiosity to learn the origin and signification
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of his very peculiar name-Quisenberry. It took many years and 'a right smart chance' of money (in homeopathic doses, through the years) to do it. He has traced his ancestry in a straight line, through sixteen preceding generations, to Tielman Questenberg, who was born in Brunswick, Germany, certainly not later than the year 1380. The name Questen- berg means 'a crested mountain.' Tielman Questenberg settled in the city of Cologne in 1418, and soon afterwards went to London as a merchant of the great Hanseatic League, of which he was a prominent and influential member. In 1467 his grandson, Heinrich Questenberg, who was also a Hanse merchant in London, married Catherine Cutts, of Can- terbury, County Kent, England; and as the marrying of an English woman was a viola- tion of the Hanse laws, he was expelled from the Hanseatic League, and then settled per- manently in England, where his name was An- glicized into Questenbury. The 't' being si- lent, this name was pronounced as if spelled Quesenbury. Heinrich Questenberg's great- great-great-great-grandson, Thomas Questen- bury, was born in Bromley, Kent, March 16, 1608; and in 1622, when he was fourteen years old, he ran away from his step-father, John Griffin, of Westminster, Gentleman, and came to Virginia, where he married in 1626, when
only eighteen years old. From him have de- scended all the people of the name in Amer- ica, who are numerous, and who now spell the name in many ways. The original spell- ing of the name in Virginia, about two hun- dred and ninety years ago, was Quesenbury. It is now spelled in nearly any way you like, by different branches of the family, in dif- ferent parts of the country. Thomas Ques- tenbury's great-great-great-grandson, Rev. James Quisenberry (my great-grandfather ) went from Orange county, Virginia, to Ken- tucky in 1783-one hundred and twenty-eight years ago. He lived in the fort at Boonesbor- ough for two years, and two of his children were born in the fort. In 1785 he settled in what is now Clark county, Kentucky, where he died in 1830, at the age of 71, leaving 24 children. At the time of his death his eldest child was 53 years old and his youngest was but three months old. Two of his brothers- one in Virginia and one in Illinois-were each the father of twenty-two children; so that these 'three brothers' had an aggregate of sixty-eight children. Such of the descendants of those old heroes as have inherited their great abilities are much more to be envied than those people who have descended from mere noblemen and kings."
APPENDIX.
KENTUCKY OFFICERS IN THE MEXICAN WAR.
From the Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society is taken the following roster of the Kentuckians who served as officers in the war with Mexico both in the Regular and Volunteer armies. It contains so far as it has been possible to get the information the names of officers who were born in Kentucky and appointed from that state as well as of those born in Kentucky and appointed from other states. It is probably now impossible to get a complete roster of native-born Ken- tuckians who were officers of volunteers from other States. Perhaps half of those from Missouri were born in Kentucky as that State drew heavily upon this in its early settlement. For the same reason it is fair to assume that Kentuckians were well represented in the commands from Illinois and Texas and per- haps also from Tennessee, Indiana and Mis- sissippi. From this latter state came Colonel Jefferson Davis of the Mississippi Rifles, a native of Kentucky.
Where brevets were conferred on officers of the Regular Army, the fact is indicated on the roster in parentheses after the officer's name. For instance: "Captain John B. Gray- son, Commissary of Subsistence. ( Major and Lieutenant Colonel, Contreras, Churubusco and Chapultepec )" indicates that Capt. Grayson was brevetted Major for gallant and distin- guished conduct in one of those battles and Lieutenant Colonel for similar conduct in the others. Many of the officers on this roster subsequently served in the Federal or Con- federate armies. Where this was the case, Vista). Union Major General.
the fact is indicated, together with the rank the officer held in the later service. Where the fact is known the date of the death of offi- cers is also given.
THE REGULAR ARMY.
FIELD AND STAFF-
Major General Zachary Taylor, Commander of the "Army of Occupation."
Brigadier General Thomas S. Jesup. Died June 10, 1860.
Colonel George Croghan, Inspector Gen- eral. "The hero of Fort Stephenson" in War of 1812 where Fremont, Ohio, now stands, and where there is a magnificent monument to his memory. Died January 8, 1849.
Captain Abner R. Hetzel, Quartermaster. Died in Louisville, July 20, 1847.
Captain John B. Grayson, Commissary of Subsistence ( Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec). Con- federate Brigadier General. Died October 21. 1861.
Captain John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon.
Captain Alfred W. Kennedy, Assistant Sur- geon. Died June 3, 1851.
Captain John Sanders, Engineer Corps ( Major, Monterey). Died July 29, 1859, at Fort Delaware, Del.
2nd Lieutenant Gustavus W. Smith. ( Ist Lieutenant and Captain, Cerro Gordo and Con- treras.) Confederate Major General.
2n 1 Lieutenant Thomas J. Wood, Topo- graphical Engineer. ( Ist Lieutenant, Buena
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FIRST DRAGOONS.
Captain Benjamin D. Moore, killed Decem- ber 6, 1846, in action at San Pasqual, Cali- fornia.
Captain Enoch Steen. (Major, Buena Vis- ta). Wounded at Buena Vista. Union Lieu- tenant-Colonel. Died January 22, 1880.
Ist Lieutenant Abraham Buford. (Captain, Buena Vista), Confederate Brigadier General. Died at Danville, Illinois, June 9, 1884.
SECOND DRAGOONS.
2nd Lieutenant Newton C. Givens ( ist Lieu- tenant, Buena Vista). Died March 9, 1859, at San Antonio, Texas.
2nd Lieutenant James M. Ilawes, (Ist Lieutenant, San Juan de los Llanos, Mexico). Confederate Brigadier General. Died Novem- ber 22, 1889, at Covington, Ky.
THIRD DRAGOONS.
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas P. Moore. Died July 21, 1851.
Captain Corydon S. Abell, Assistant Sur- geon.
Captain Edgar B. Gaither. Died September 18, 1855, at Columbia, Ky.
2nd Lieutenant James J. Moore. Died Feb- ruary 19, 1850.
2nd Lieutenant William C. Wagley.
MOUNTED RIFLES.
Captain George Bibb Crittenden, ( Major, Contreras and Churubusco). Confederate Major General. Died November 27, 1880, at Danville, Ky.
Captain Henry C. Pope. Killed in a duel, May, 1848.
2nd Lieutenant William B. Lane (Union Major ).
FIRST ARTILLERY.
2nd Lieutenant Theodore Talbott Union Captain.
THIRD ARTILLERY.
Capt. Robert Anderson of Fort Sumter fame ( Major, Molina del Rey). Severely
wounded at that battle. Union Brigadier General. Died October 26, 1871, Nice, France.
Captain John F. Reynolds (Captain and Major, Monterey and Buena Vista) Union Major General. Killed July 1, 1863, at battle of Gettysburg.
FOURTH ARTILLERY.
First Lieutenant Thomas J. Curd. Died February 12, 1850, at Frederick, Maryland.
First Lieutenant Samuel Gill. Died Janu- ary 18, 1876, at Cincinnati, O.
FIRST INFANTRY.
Major John B. Clark. Died August 23, 1847.
Captain John M. Scott ( Major, Monterey). Died October 26, 1850, at Frankfort, Ky.
2nd Lieutenant William Logan Crittenden. Shot to death August 16, 1851, in Havana, Cuba, by the Spanish military authorities. Was a member of a force of men under Lo- pez struggling for Cuban freedom.
SECOND INFANTRY.
2nd Lieutenant J. Russell Butler. Colonel First Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate Army.
2nd Lieutenant James M. L. Henry. Died July 4, 1881, in Washington, D. C.
THIRD INFANTRY.
Captain Edmund B. Alexander ( Major and Lieutenant Colonel Cerro Gordo, Contreas and Churubusco), Union Colonel. Died Jan- uary 3, 1888. at Washington, D. C.
Captain Philip N. Barbour ( Major, Palo Alta and Resaca de la Palma ). Killed at the battle of Monterey.
2nd Lieutenant John J. Crittenden Bibb. Died September 29, 1854, at Washington, D. C.
2nd Lieutenant John C. McFerran, Union Colonel. Died April 25, 1872, at Louisville, Ky.
2nd Lieutenant James N. Ward, ( 1st Lieu- tenant, Cerro Gordo). Died December 6, 1858, at St. Anthony, Minnesota.
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FOURTH INFANTRY.
1st Lieutenant Richard H. Graham. Died October 12, 1846, of wounds received at the battle of Monterey.
SIXTH INFANTRY.
Capt. Thomas L. Alexander ( Major, Con- treras and Churubusco). Died March 11, 1881, at Louisville, Ky.
Capt. John B. S. Todd. Union Brigadier General. Died January 5, 1872, at Yankton, Dakota.
ist Lieutenant Edward Johnson (Captain and Major, Molina del Rey and Chapultepec). Confederate Major General. Died February 22, 1873. at Richmond, Va.
2nd Lieutenant Simon Bolivar Buckner. ( Ist Lieutenant and Captain, Contreras, Chur- ubusco and Molina del Rey.) Confederate Lieutenant General. Governor of Kentucky.
SEVENTHI INFANTRY.
Ist Lieutenant Nevil Hopson. Died in 1847, in Texas.
2nd Lieutenant Samuel B. Maxey ( Ist Lieutenant, Contreras and Churubusco ). Con- federate Major General.
EIGHTH INFANTRY.
2nd Lieutenant Edmunds B. Holloway ( Ist Lieutenant, Contreras and Churubusco). Se- verely wounded at Churubusco. Confederate Colonel. Died May 16, 1861, at Independence, Mo., of wounds received mistakenly from his own inen.
NINTH INFANTRY.
2nd Lieutenant Robert Hopkins.
'ELEVENTH INFANTRY.
2nd Lieutenant George Davidson.
THIRTEENTIL INFANTRY.
Captain Hiram H. Higgins. Confederate Major.
2nd Lieutenant John L. Witherspoon. Died October 22, 1847.
FOURTEENTH INFANTRY.
end Lieutenant James G. Fitzgerald. 211d Lieutenant Thomas Hart.
2nd Lieutenant Samuel HI. Martin.
FIFTEENTH INFANTRY.
Ist Lieutenant Edward C. Marshall ( Cap- tain Chapultepec).
2nd Lieutenant Henry F. Green.
SIXTEENTHI INFANTRY.
Colonel John W. Tibbatts. Died July 5, 1852.
Major James M. Talbott. Died June 15, 1848.
Captain Alexander C. Hensley, Assistant Surgeon.
Captain James D. Stuart, Assistant Surgeon. Captain James W. Brannon.
Captain Edward Curd.
Captain Theophilus T. Garrard. Union Brigadier General. Captain Edward A. Graves.
Captain Patrick H. Harris.
Captain Charles Wickliffe. Confederate Colonel. Died April 27, 1862, of wounds re- ceived at the battle of Shiloh, Tenn.
ist Lieutenant Charles J. Helin.
1st Lieutenant John T. Hughes.
Ist Lieutenant George W. Singleton. .
2nd Lieutenant Edward C. Berry.
2nd Lieutenant Alexander Evans. Confed- erate Major.
2nd Lieutenant Bernard H. Garrett.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas T. Hawkins. Con- federate Major.
2nd Lieutenant Burwell B. Irvan.
2nd Lieutenant Francis McMordie.
2nd lieutenant John A. Markley. 2nd Lieutenant James S. Smith.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas M. Winston. Union Major.
VOLTIGEUR REGIMENT.
Captain James D. Blair. Captain Alexander P. Churchill. 2nd Lieutenant Charles F. Vernon.
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THE VOLUNTEER ARMY.
THE FIELD AND STAFF.
Major General William O. Butler, Candi- date for Vice President with Lewis Cass in 1848. Died in Kentucky August 6, 1880. Brigadier General Thomas Marshall. Died in Kentucky March 28, 1853.
Captain Theodore O'Hara, Quartermaster in the Regular Army, and special aide-de- camp to Major General Zachary Taylor ( Ma- jor, Contreras and Churubusco) Confederate Colonel. Author of "The Bivouac of the Dead." Died June 6, 1867.
FIRST KENTUCKY CAVALRY.
Colonel Humphrey Marshall, Confederate Brigadier General and member of Confed- erate Congress. Died March 28, 1872, in Louisville, Ky.
Lieutenant Colonel Ezekiel Field.
Major John P. Gaines. Died in 1853 in Oregon.
Ist Lieutenant Edward M. Vaughan Adju- tant. Killed at the battle of Buena Vista.
Ist Lieutenant Thomas II. Barnes, Adju- tant. Union Major.
Alexander M. Blanton, Assistant Surgeon. Captain Oliver P. Beard.
Captain Cassius M. Clay, Union Major General. United States Minister to Russia. Captain W. J. Heady. Captain J. S. Lillard.
Captain Thomas F. Marshall.
Captain Benjamin C. Milan.
Captain Aaron Pennington. Captain G. L. Postlethwaite.
Captain Johnson Price.
Captain John W. Shawhan, wounded. at Buena Vista.
Captain James C. Stone.
Ist Lieutenant Thomas J. Churchill. Con- federate Major General. Governor of Ar- kansas.
Ist Lieutenant Lafayette Dunlap.
Ist Lieutenant John Field.
Ist Lieutenant Joseph H. D. McKee.
Ist Lieutenant John H. Morgan. Confed- erate Major General.
Ist Lieutenant Samuel J. Patterson.
Ist Lieutenant Wm. T. Torrance."
Ist Lieutenant Jesse Woodruff.
2nd Lieutenant John Allen.
2nd Lieutenant Lowry J. Beard.
2nd Lieutenant Randolph Brassfield.
2nd Lieutenant George Mason Brown. 2nd Lieutenant John Mason Brown. Wounded at Buena Vista. Union Colonel.
211d Lieutenant Thomas K. Conn. Wound- ed at Buena Vista.
2nd Lieutenant George R. Davidson.
2nd Lieutenant George W. Keene.
2nd Lieutenant John W. Kimbrough.
211d Lieutenant John A. Merrifield. Wounded at Buena Vista. 2nd Lieutenant Thomas J. Peak. 2nd Lieutenant George F. Sartain.
2nd Lieutenant Narbonne B. Scott.
2nd Lieutenant Green Clay Smith. Union Brigadier General. Member Congress, Gov- ernor of Montana Territory.
211d Lieutenant George I'. Swinford.
FIRST KENTUCKY INFANTRY.
Col. Stephen Ormsby. Died April 16, 1869, near Louisville, Ky.
Lieutenant Colonel Jason Rogers. Died May, 1848, in Louisville, Ky.
Major John B. Shepherd.
Ist Lieutenant William Fisher, Adjutant.
Ist Lieutenant William Riddle, Adjutant. Thomas L. Caldwell, Surgeon.
John J. Mathews, Assistant Surgeon.
Captain William 1. Ball. Died July, 1846,. in Matamoras, Mexico. Captain Charles W. Bullen.
Captain John Fuller.
Captain Charles H. Harper.
Captain Ebenezer B. Howe.
Captain Florian Kern.
Captain William Minor.
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Captain Frank Saunders. Captain Conrad Schroeder. Captain Benjamin F. Stewart.
Captain Francis F. C. Triplett. Ist Lieutenant John L. Albrecht. Ist Lieutenant Joseph C. Baird. Ist Lieutenant William T. Barbour.
Ist Lieutenant John J. Huff. Ist Lieutenant William Littrell. Ist Lieutenant Patrick McPike.
Ist Lieutenant George W. Sigler. Ist Lieutenant Ephraim M. Stone.
Ist Lieutenant William White. 2nd Lieutenant Lewis Becker. 2nd Lieutenant David Black.
2nd Lieutenant John R. Butler. 2nd Lieutenant William Duerson.
2nd Lieutenant John Harrigan. 2nd Lieutenant Charles W. Hilton. 2nd Lieutenant George D. Hooper.
2nd Lieutenant Benedict Huebel.
2nd Lieutenant Wm. E. Jones.
2nd Lieutenant Reuben F. Maury.
2nd Lieutenant Jacob Pfalzer. 2nd Lieutenant David G. Swinner.
2nd Lieutenant Richard W. N. Taylor.
2nd Lieutenant Levi White.
2nd Lieutenant Lowry B. White.
2nd Lieutenant Samuel Withington. SECOND KENTUCKY INFANTRY.
Colonel William R. McKee. Killed at the battle of Buena Vista.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Clay, Jr. Killed at Buena Vista.
Major Cary H. Fry. Union Lieutenant- Colonel. Died March 5, 1873, at San Fran- cisco, Cal.
Ist Lieutenant George N. Cardwell, Adj.
Ist Lieutenant Thomas S. Todd, Adjutant.
Ist Lieutenant James E. Kelso, Regimental Quartermaster.
Robert P. Hunt, Surgeon. John U. Lafon, Assistant Surgeon. James B. Snail, Assistant Surgeon. Captain Franklin Chambers. Vol. 1-38.
Captain George W. Cutter. Captain William Dougherty.
Captain Speed S. Fry. Union Brigadier General.
Captain James O. Hervey.
Captain George W. Kavanaugh.
Captain William N. Joyner.
Captain John H. McBrayer.
Captain William H. Maxcy.
Captain James W. Moss.
Captain Philip B. Thompson.
Captain Wilkinson Turpin.
Captain William T. Willis. Killed at Buena Vista.
Ist Lieutenant John W. Cowan. Ist Lieutenant Andrew J. Galt.
Ist Lieutenant Edward H. Hobson. Union Brigadier General.
Ist Lieutenant Wm. R. Keene.
Ist Lieutenant Wm. G. Kincaid.
Ist Lieutenant Littleton T. Lacy.
Ist Lieutenant James Monroe.
Ist Lieutenant Joseph W. Powell. Died at Monterey, January 2, 1847.
Ist Lieutenant David P. Wade. 2nd Lieutenant Wm. E. Akin.
2nd Lieutenant George W. Ball.
2nd Lieutenant Elias L. Barbee, wounded at Buena Vista.
2nd Lieutenant Richard H. Clarke.
2nd Lieutenant George M. Coleman.
2nd Lieutenant Joseph C. Ewing.
2nd Lieutenant Peter G. Flood.
2nd Lieutenant John H. Lillard.
2nd Lieutenant B. H. Lawler.
2nd Lieutenant Henry C. Long.
2nd Lieutenant Wm. C. Lowry.
2nd Lieutenant Wm. H. Moss.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas W. Napier. Con- federate Major.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas J. Proctor. 2nd Lieutenant Lewis M. Reese. 2nd Lieutenant Wm. D. Robertson.
2nd Lieutenant Alva C. Threlkild. 2nd Lieutenant James Wilson.
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2nd Lieutenant Wm. T. Withers. Confed- trate General.
THIRD KENTUCKY INFANTRY.
Colonel Manlius V. Thompson.
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas L. Crittenden. Union Major General.
Major John C. Breckinridge. Member of Congress ; Vice President United States ; Sen- ator in Congress; Confederate Major Gen- eral; Secretary of War, Confederate States. Died in Lexington in 1875.
Ist Lieutenant Benjamin F. Bradley, Ad- jutant. Member of Confederate Congress from Kentucky.
Wm. Crommell. Assistant Surgeon.
Captain Andrew F. Caldwell.
Captain William P. Chiles.
Captain Leander M. Cox.
Captain George S. Dodge.
Captain James Ewing.
Captain Leonidas Metcalfe. Union Colonel.
Captain James A. Pritchard.
Captain William E. Simms. Member of Confederate Senate from Kentucky.
Captain John R. Smith. Captain Thomas Todd.
Ist Lieutenant Wm. C. Alden.
Ist Lieutenant Enos H. Barry.
Ist Lieutenant Wm. P. Bramlette. Ist Lieutenant Jesse B. Davis. Died in Mexico City March 19, 1848.
Ist Lieutenant Thomas C. Flournoy.
Ist Lieutenant Walter I. Lacy.
Ist Lieutenant John A. Logan.
Ist Lieutenant Henry H. Mize.
Ist Lieutenant Wm. P. Morris.
Ist Lieutenant Thomas H. Taylor. Con- federate Brigadier General.
Ist Lieutenant Wm. T. Walker.
2nd Lieutenant Rigdon S. Barnhill.
2nd Lieutenant John Brock. Died in Mex- ico City March 9, 1848. 2nd Lieutenant Churchill G. Campbell. 2nd Lieutenant James B. Casey. 2nd Lieutenant James C. Dear.
2nd Lieutenant William Edmonson. 2nd Lieutenant William E. Fisher. 2nd Lieutenant John M. Heddleson. 2nd Lieutenant James H. Holladay. 2nd Lieutenant William B. Holladay. 2nd Lieutenant Eli Holtzclaw. 2nd Lieutenant Marshall L. Howe. 2nd Lieutenant James Kendall.
2nd Lieutenant Benjamin D. Lacey.
2nd Lieutenant William C. Merrick. 2nd Lieutenant James H. Miller. 2nd Lieutenant Ansel D. Powell. 2nd Lieutenant Daniel Runyon. 2nd Lieutenant John P. Thatcher.
2nd Lieutenant Elisha B. Treadway, Union Major.
2nd Lieutenant Walter C. Whittaker. Union Brigadier General. Died July 9, 1887. 2nd Lieutenant James T. Young.
FOURTH KENTUCKY INFANTRY. Colonel John S. Williams. Confederate Brigadier General. United States Senator. Lieut .- Colonel William Preston. Confed- erate Major General. Died at Lexington, Ky,. in September, 1887.
Major William T. Ward. Union Briga- dier General. Died October 12, 1878.
2nd Lieutenant Charles H. Creel, Adjutant. 2nd Lieutenant Robert P. Trabue, Adju- tant. Confederate Colonel. Joseph G. Roberts, Surgeon.
John R. Steele, Assistant Surgeon.
Captain Anthony W. Bartlett.
Captain Joseph C. Conn.
Captain Joseph S. Corum.
Captain George B. Cook.
Captain Patrick H. Gardner.
Captain Mark R. Hardin.
Captain B. Rowan Hardin.
Captain Timothy Keating. Captain John G. Lair.
Captain Decius McCreery.
Captain Thomas Mayfield.
Captain Hamilton N. Owens. Union Major. ยท
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Captain John C. Squires. Died in Mexico City, March 20, 1848.
Ist Lieutenant Edgar D. Barbour.
Ist Lieutenant William Bristow.
Ist Lieutenant Jesse Davis.
Ist Lieutenant John Donan.
Ist Lieutenant Jeremiah F. Dorris.
Ist Lieutenant Milford Elliott.
Ist Lieutenant John W. Hughes.
Ist Lieutenant William E. Woodruff. Union Colonel.
2nd Lieutenant Titus P. A. Bibb.
2nd Lieutenant William P. D. Bush.
2nd Lieutenant Noah Z. Chapline.
2nd Lieutenant John D. Cosby.
2nd Lieutenant Samuel D. Cowan.
2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Egan.
2nd Lieutenant Cyrenius W. Gilmer.
2nd Lieutenant Wm. G. Johnson. 2nd Lieutenant John M. Massey.
2nd Lieutenant, Charles D. Pennebaker. Union Colonel.
2nd Lieutenant Wm. E. Russell.
2nd Lieutenant Cyrus D. Scott. Died in Mexico City February, 1848.
2nd Lieutenant John M. Snyder. 2nd Lieutenant James M. Shackleford. Union Brigadier General.
2nd Lieutenant Presley Talbott.
2nd Lieutenant Isaac P. Washburne.
2nd Lieutenant Noah N. Watkins.
2nd Lieutenant Levi White. 2nd Lieutenant Charles A. Wickliffe.
2nd Lieutenant Harry J. Woodward.
KENTUCKY INDEPENDENT COMPANY.
Captain John S. Williams. Confederate Brigadier General. United States Senator.
Ist Lieutenant Roger W. Hanson. Confed- erate Brigadier General. Killed at battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., January 31, 1863. 2nd Lieutenant Wm. A. McConnell.
2nd Lieutenant George S. Sutherland, se- verely wounded at the battle of Cerro Gordo. Roger Tandy Quisenberry, a sergeant in
this company was in 1856 one of Gen. William Walker's little army of sixty men who invaded and for a time held possession of Nicarauga.
KENTUCKIANS FROM ARKANSAS.
Captain Franklin W. Desha, Ist Arkansas Cavalry.
FROM ILLINOIS.
Col. John J. Hardin, Ist Illinois. Killed at Buena Vista.
Ist Lieutenant Wm. H. L. Wallace, Adju- tant Ist Illinois. Union Brigadier General. Died April 16, 1862, from wounds received in battle at Shiloh, Tenn.
Ist Lieutenant Richard J. Oglesby, 4th Il- linois. Union Major General. Three times Governor of Illinois.
2nd Lieutenant Benjamin Howard wounded at Cerro Gordo.
Captain Calmes L. Wright, 2nd Illinois.
FROM INDIANA.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry S. Lane, Ist In- diana.
Captain Lovell H. Rousseau, 2nd Indiana. Union Major General.
FROM MARYLAND.
Captain Lloyd Tilghman, Ist Maryland. Confederate Brigadier General. Killed at the battle of Baker's Creek, Miss., May 16, 1863.
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
Col. Jefferson Davis. Mississippi Rifles. Secretary of War. United States Senator. President Confederate States. Died Dec. 6, 1889 at New Orleans, La.
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander K. McClung, Mississippi Rifles. Wounded at Monterey. Died in 1855.
FROM MISSOURI.
Colonel Alexander W. Doniphan, Ist Mis- souri Cavalry.
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