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Major Meriwether L. Clark. Missouri Light Artillery Confederate Colonel. Died Oct. 28, 1881, in Frankfort, Ky.
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FROM TEXAS.
Col. John C. Hayes. Ist Texas Mounted Rifles.
Col. George T. Wood, 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles.
Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, Texas Ri- fles. Confederate General. Killed in battle at Shiloh, Tennessee, April 6, 1862.
On July 20, 1847. the remains of McKee. Clay, Barsaker and many other Kentuckians, officers and enlisted men, who had fallen at
a Kentuckian, the poem was written in honor of Kentucky's soldier dead. It is a cold heart indeed, that can read this immortal poem and not feel the thrill of patriotism.
THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD.
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread
FEDERAL, 11ILL. BARDSTOWN, WHERE "OLD KENTUCKY HOME" WAS WRITTEN
Buena Vista were brought back to Kentucky and reinterred in the State Cemetery at Frank- fort in the presence of many thousands of people.
Theodore O'Hara, a Kentuckian, who served in the Mexican War as a Captain in the Reg- ular Army, wrote for that solemn occasion, his deathless poem "The Bivouac of the Dead." Though one would scarcely look in a history to find a poem, yet it is appropriate that these stirring lines should appear here. O Hara was
And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.
No rumor of the foe's advance Now swells upon the wind, No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of loved ones left behind. No vision of the morrow's strife The warrior's dream alarms; No braying horn nor screaming fife At dawn shall call to arms.
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Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their pluméd heads are bowed; Their haughty banner trailed in dust Is now their martial shroud, And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms by battle gashed Are free from anguish now.
The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The trumpet's stirring blast, The charge, the dreadful cannonade The din and shout are past ; Nor war's wild note nor glory's peal Shall thrill with fierce delight Those breasts that never more may feel The rapture of the fight.
Like the fierce northern hurricane That sweeps his great plateau, Flushed with the triumphs yet to gain, Came down the serried foe ; Who heard the thunder of the fray Break o'er the field beneath Knew well the watchword of that day Was "Victory or Death."
Long has the doubtful conflict raged O'er that stricken plain, For never fiercer fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spain ; And still the storm of battle blew, Still swelled the vengeful tide ; Not long, our stout old chieftain knew, Such odds his strength could bide.
'Twas in that hour his stern command Called to a martyr's grave The flower of his native land The Nation's flag to save. By rivers of their fathers' gore His first-born laurels grew, And well he deemed the sons would pour Their lives for glory too.
Full many a norther's breath has swept O'er Angosturo's plain- And long the pitying sky has wept Above the mouldering slain. The raven's scream or eagle's flight Or shepherd's pensive lay, Alone awakes each sullen height That frowned o'er that dread fray.
Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground, Ye must not slumber there, Where stranger steps and tongues resound Along the heedless air; Your own proud State's heroic soil Shall be your fitter grave ; She claims from War his richest spoil The ashes of her brave.
Thus 'neath their parent turf they rest, Far from the gory field, Borne to a Spartan mother's breast On many a bloody shield; The sunshine of their native sky Smiles sadly on them here, And kindred eyes and hearts watch by The heroes' sepulcher.
Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead ! Dear as the blood ye gave, No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave ; Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone In deathless song shall tell When many a vanished year has flown The story how ye fell; Nor wreck nor change nor winter's blight, Nor Time's remorseless doom, Can dim one ray of holy light That gilds your glorious tomb.
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Over the gateway to every Federal cemetery in the land are engraven these lines from the "Bivouac of the Dead:"
"On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread ; And Glory guards with solemn round The Bivouac of the Dead."
Few of those who pass through these gate- ways realize that they are from the pen of a Colonel in the Confederate army. It is grat- ifying to all who recognize that the bitterness of the great strife is ended, to find that the most appropriate words ever written for a soldier's grave have been adopted as a fitting memorial by the friends of the Federal dead, regardless of the fact that they were written by one who met them on the field of battle.
KENTUCKIANS IN THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE.
In the chapter relating to the victory of Commodore Perry over the British naval forces on Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, mention is made of the fact that a number of Kentucky volunteers served on certain of the American ships and aided in the victory there achieved. Mackenzie's "Life of Oliver Haz- zard Perry, in referring to this event, says: "On the 31st of August, 1813, while lying in
Put-in-Bay, Perry received from General Har- rison a reinforcement of nearly one hundred men which, after deducting a few deaths and others left on shore as useless at Erie, Penn-
sylvania, carried the total of his muster roll to four hundred and ninety souls. Some of the men who had been selected from General Mac- Arthur's brigade were lake or river boatmen, and were received as seamen. The majority, however, were intended to perform duty as ma- rines in the squadron, in consequence of the disappointment in receiving the expected guard from Ontario. The men detailed for this ser- vice were chiefly taken from the Kentucky mil- itia and from the 28th Regiment of Infantry
(regulars), which had recently joined the army from Kentucky, where it had been entirely raised. The whole party, officers and men in- cluded, were volunteers, led by a spirit of ad- venture to embark in an enterprise so different from the previous habits of their life. Few of them had ever seen a vessel before they were marched to the mouth of the Sandusky, and their astonishment and curiosity when they got on board was irrepressible. They climbed to the masthead; dove to the bottom of the hold ; passed without stopping or understanding any distinction, from the sick-bay to the cap- tain's cabin, expressing their admiration as they went in awkward but rapturous terms. These Kentuckians were dressed in their fa- vorite linsey-woolsey hunting shirts and draw- ers, and were themselves equally an object of curiosity to the officers and seamen, few of whom had ever seen any of these hardy bor- derers. Perry, for a time, was amused with the rest ; but began ere long to fear that his extraordinary marines would lend but little assistance in their appropriate office of sus- taining the discipline and etiquette of the squadron. Soon after their arrival he briefly stated to the non-commissioned officer in com- mand of that portion of the detachment which had been detailed for his own vessel the nature of the duties that would be required of them, and the line of conduct they would be required to preserve. The officer then mustered his men on deck and informed them that they had been kindly indulged by Commodore Perry with an opportunity of gratifying their curi- osity by seeing the ship, in doing which they had been permitted to violate the rules and dis- cipline of the sea service without rebuke. They must now come to order, and submit them- selves to the usual discipline of marines, con- fine themselves to their proper places, and at- tend to their appropriate duties, which were forthwith explained to them. The stout Ken- tuckians took the admonition in good part ; they carefully conformed to all that was re-
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quired of them, were of essential use in man- ning the squadron and replacing the marines and seamen which Commodore Chauncey had withheld; and their association with Perry was, to such of them as survived to tell the tale of their adventures, a special and enduring source of gratification."
From the Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society for September, 1911, the following extracts are taken from an article contributed by Mr. A. C. Quisenberry of Washington: "Until quite recently no list of the names of those gallant Kentuckians was known to be in existence. In 1859, while the matter of erecting a monument to Commodore Perry in Cleveland, Ohio, was being agitated throughout the country, there was a great re- vival of interest in the glorious naval victory of Lake Erie, and it was then (or soon after- wards) discovered that six of the Kentuckians, who had fought as sharpshooters in the rigging of Perry's ships, were still alive. Their names were :
"James Artus, of Mason county ; Dr. Wil- liam Thornton Taliaferro, of Cincinnati, but late of Kentucky; John Tucker, of Mason county ; John Norris, of Boone county ; Sam- uel Hatfield, of Floyd county, and Ezra Younglove, county not stated.
"On February 11, 1860, the Kentucky Leg- islature passed the following resolution :
"Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
"""That the Governor of this Commonwealth be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to procure suitable gold medals, with appro- priate inscriptions and devices, and in the name of the State of Kentucky to present to each of the surviving officers and soldiers of the Kentucky volunteers who were present and participated in the memorable engagement be- tween the American and British naval forces on Lake Erie on the 10th of September, 1813, as a token of the grateful recollection in which the people of the State hold their brave and
patriotic services on that day, and the imperish- able renown which that brilliant victory achieved for their common country.'
"In the course of time every one of the above-named survivors received his gold medal -the medals costing $110.00 each."
"The writer of this article, believing that the Navy Department at Washington would have among its archives a roll of the Ken- tuckians who fought on Perry's ships, on July 31, 1911, addressed a letter to that Department on the subject, and after an interval of two weeks received from the Superintendent of Library and Naval Records, of the Navy De- partment, the subjoined list of about one hun- dred names. Soon after the Battle of Lake Erie each of the men on the list received $214.89 as his part of the prize money award- ed by the Government for the capture of the British fleet."
The names of these gallant Kentucky vol- unteers are here given as published in the Register:
Capt. George Stockton, 28th Infantry.
Lieut. James Coburn, Volunteers.
Serg. Sanford A. Mason.
Serg. Levi Ellis.
Serg. James Artus.
Corp. John Brown.
Corp. Andrew B. Scott.
Corp. Joseph Berry.
Corp. William Webster.
Corp. David Little.
Corp. William T. Taliaferro.
Thomas Anderson.
James Bailey.
John Bates.
Joseph Beckley.
Josiah Biggs.
Micajah Bland.
David L. Blaney.
William Bonner.
Gilbert Bowman.
John Bromwell.
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John Ludd.
Thomas Luft (or Tufft).
Thomas Lyman. John McCarty. Alexander McCord.
John McCoy.
Moses McGarney.
John McHowell.
Samuel McKenney.
George McManomy.
Daniel Maltzbocker.
John Marless.
John Martin. John Nailes. (Slightly wounded on the "Ariel.") William Nelson.
John Norris.
John Osburn.
Isaac Perkins.
William B. Perkins.
Joseph Pomeroy.
William Reed.
John Reems. Henry Roberts.
John Rodgers.
Samuel Roof.
William Smith.
Charles Smothers.
Marlen Swift.
Henry Tate.
John Thompson.
Samuel Thramin.
Aaron Trapnall.
John Tucker.
Thomas Tufft.
Frederick Vantruce.
Lewis Vanway.
Henry Webster.
Edward Welsh.
Freeman West.
Abner Williams. (Killed on the "Law-
rence.") Alexander Wright. Ezra Younglove."
David Bryant. Griffin Burnet. Francis Burns. Thomas Cavill. John R. Chetwood.
John Clifford.
London Cochran. Samuel Cochran.
Charles Colrick.
Henry Cook. Eben Cunningham.
Joseph Davidson.
John Decker.
Joseph Delaney.
John Denton.
Isaac Devault.
George W. Drake.
John B. Duncanson.
William Ellis.
David Flagg. Sim Flaherty.
Rush Garrett.
John H. George.
Lewis Gordon.
Isaac Green. ( Badly wounded on the "Ariel.") Samuel Hatfield.
John Hall.
Jesse Harlan. (Killed on the "Lawrence." )
Charles Harrington.
Har. C. Harrington.
Charles Harten.
William Henry. David Hickman.
William Hocker.
William Hockersmith. Holliday.
Parker Jarvis. Abraham Johnson. Philip Johnson. John C. Kelly. (Killed on the "Law- rence.") Ezra Killey. Conrad King.
APPENDIX
CENSUS RETURNS OF 1910.
A :. E. Dana Durand, Director of the Cen- us. at the instance of Senator William O. Bradley, furnished for this history advanced returns of the population of Kentucky as as- certained for the Thirteenth Census of the United States. From these returns it is found that in 1810, the population of the State was 2,289,905, as compared with 2,147.174 in 1900, and 1,858,635 in 1890.
The increase from 1900 to 1910 was 142,- 731, or 6.6 per cent, as compared with an in- crease for the decade from 1890 to 1900, of 288,539 or 15.5 per cent. Law breakers and tax law makers may ponder the above statis- tics to an advantage.
The distribution of the population of the State by counties is as follows :
Casey
15,479
15,144
11,848
Christian
38,845
37,962
34,118
Clark
17,987
16,694
15,434
Clay
17,789
15,364
12.447
Clinton
8,153
7,871
7,047
Crittenden
13,296
15,191
13,119
Cumberland
9,846
8,962
8,452
Daviess
41,020
38,667
33,120
Edmonson
10,469
10,080
8,005
Elliott
9,814
10,387
9,214
Estill
12,273
11,669
10,836
Fayette
47.715
42,071
35.698
Fleming
16,066
17,074
16,078
Floyd
18,623
15,552
11,256
Franklin
21,135
20,852
21.267
Fulton
14,114
11,546
10,005
Gallatin
4.697
5,163
4,61I
Garrard
11,894
12,042
11,138
Grant
10,581
13.239
12,671
Graves
33,539
33,204
28,534
Grayson
19.958
19,878
18,688
Green
11,871
12,255
11,463
COUNTIES
Greenup
18.475
15.432
II,91I
Adair
16,503
14,888
13.721
Allen
14,882
14,657
13,692
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Anderson
10,146
10,051
10,610
Harlan
10,566
9,838
6,197
Ballard
12,690
10,761
8.390
Harrison
16,837
18,570
16,914
Barren
25,293
23,197
21,490
Hart
18,173
18,390
16,439
Batlı
13,988
14.734
12,813
Henderson
29,352
32,907
29.536
Bel
28,447
15.701
10,312
Henry
13,716
14,620
11,164
Boone
9,420
11.170
12,246
Hickman
11,750
11,745
11,637
Bourbon
17,462
18,069
16.976
Hopkins
34,291
30,995
23.505
Boyd
23,444
18,834
14,033
Jackson
10,734
10,561
8,261
Boyle
14,668
13,817
12,948
Jefferson
262,920
232,549
188.598
Bracken
10.308
12,137
12,369
Jessamine
12,613
11.925
11,24
Breathitt
17.540
14.322
8.705
Johnson
17.482
13,730
I1,027 ...
Breckinridge
21,034
20,534
18.976
Kenton
70.355
63,591
54.161
Bullitt
9,487
9,602
8,291
Knott
10,791
8,704
5,438
Butler
15,805
15,896
13,956
Knox
22,116
17,372
13,762
Caldwell
14,063
14,510
13,186
Larue
10,70I
10,764
Calloway
19,867
17,633
14.675
Laurel
19,872
17,592
1
Campbell
59,369
54,223
44,208
Lawrence
20,067
19,612
I
Carlisle
9,048
10,195
7,612
Lee
9,53I
7.988
8,110
9,825
9.266
Leslie
8,976
6,753
18.201
Letcher
10,623
9,172
1910
1900
1890
The State . .
.2,289,905 2,147,174 1,858,635
Hancock
8,512
8,914
9,214
Hardin
22,696
22.937
21,304
Population :
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Lewis
16,887
17,868
14,803
Owsley
7,979
6,874
Lincoln
17,897
17,059
15,962
Pendleton
11,985
14,927
Livingston
10,627
11,354
9,474
Perry
11,255
8,276
Jol
Logan
24,977
25,994
23,812
Pike
31,679
22,686
Jol Lyon
9,423
9,319
7,628
Powell
6,268
6,443
Lo
McCracken
35,064
28,733
21,051
Pulaski
35,986
31,293
25,73
Sa1 McLean
13,24I
12,448
9,887
Robertson
4,12I
4,900
4,684
Madison
26,95I
25,607
24,348
Rockcastle
14,473
12,416
9,841
Magoffin
13,654
12,006
9,196
Rowan
9,438
8,277
6,120
Marion
16,330
16,290
15,648
Russell
10,861
9,695
8,136
Marshall
15.771
13,692
II,287
Scott
16,956
18,076
16,546
Martin
7,29I
5,780
4,209
Shelby
18,04I
18,340
16,521|
Mason
18,611
20,416
20,773
Simpson
11,460
11,624
10,878
Meade
9,783
10,533
9,484
Spencer
7,567
7,406
6,760
Merifee
6,153
6,818
4,666
Taylor
11,96I
II,075
9,35
Mercer
14,063
14,426
15,034
Todd
16,488
17,37I
16,814
Metcalfe
10,453
9,988
9,871
Trigg
14,539
14,073
13.902
Monroe
13,663
13,053
10.989
Trimble
6,512
7,272
7,140
Montgomery
12,868
12,834
12,367
Union
19,886
21,326
18,229
Morgan
16,259
12,792
II,249
Warren
30,579
29,970
30,158
Muhlenberg
28,598
20,741
17,955
Washington
13,940
14,182
13,622
Nelson
16,830
16,587
16,417
Wayne
17.518
14,892
12,85.2
Nicholas
10.60I
11,952
10,764
Webster
20,974
20,097
17,196
Ohio
27.642
27,287
22,946
Whitley
31.982
25,015
17,590
". Oldham
7,248
7,078
6,754
Wolfe
9,864
8,764
7,180
Owen
14.248
17,553
17.676
Woodford
12,57I
13,134
12,380
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