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avoid artillery fire, and to rest for the final rush on the hotel, Col. Ward ordered his men to place their sights at two hundred yards and try a shot or two at them, to see whether that was the proper position for the sights. It was, and these few shots called the attention of the rebel artillery to the fact that their enemy yet held the hotel, and soon the three sections were sending shells through the building. Our artillery had already been driven from its position. About the same time the regiment in our front arose and charged down upon us, and for some thirty minutes perhaps, the men in that old brick hotel with a tin roof were in the midst of as much noise as could be imagined. The rebel cannon first shot too high and knocked the upper walls and chimney over on to the roof, but soon they got our range, and sent shells through and through the rooms occupied by us, which bursting in and about the building, with out rifles cracking con- stantly, and the rebel regiment, then in or behind a long stable just across the road, pouring a fire into us, made as hot a time as could well be.
After severe loss, in killed and wounded, Capt. Baily of Company C, said to Col. Ward: "I think we should re- treat, no one can expect you to hold this position longer under the circumstances." Col. Ward, replied: "It looks captain, as though our force was surprised by meeting infantry and artillery in place of cavalry and it may be we are left here to be captured while the other forces escape, like a tub is sometimes thrown to a whale." C'apt. Baily said: "We are certainly cut off, so we can get no orders to retreat, and I think you owe it to our men to use your own judgment and not let them be sacrificed." The colonel replied: "It may be you are right, we will hold out fifteen minutes longer, and then if no order comes, I will act on my own judgment." The time passed and the men were sent out in the dusk from the side door of the hotel, and told to rally at a certain ravine. They were so few, that the rebels who saw them thought they were only those who were skulking and did not fire, until Col. Ward and Adjt. Speed on horseback followed, when they opened fire on them, but it was getting so dark no damage was done. A regiment of Michigan cavalry had been sent with orders for Col. Ward to retreat, but it came in contact with one of the rebel regiments that passed his flank, and in the dusk and bushes they were each cautious, and their fighting gave Col. Ward and his four com- panies time to pass before the gap closed, that would have made him and them prisoners. After this the 27th marched on foot to Cumberland Gap, and then into Lee
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county Va., where they camped for a time, and then were ordered to Mt. Sterling, Ky., to be remounted. After reaching there Col. Ward, who did not like the mounted service, got an order sending him to join Sherman's army then beginning its advance upon Atlanta. The regiment joined the army at Pumpkin Vine creek, Ga., and was with it in its almost continued battle from there until the fall of Atlanta, being in Strickland's brigade, Has- call's division, 23d Army Corps.
After the fall of Atlanta, as the 27th Ky. had al- ready served over three years, it was sent back to Owens- boro, Ky., to drive out the guerrillas in that part of the state, and reduce the country to order. The regiment here won a fine name for discipline and order even from the most decided rebels, and it was probably as well dis- ciplined as any volunteer regiment in the Union army. Col. Ward, though starting as lieutenant-colonel after Col. Pennebaker resigned, was commissioned colonel, but was not mustered as such, as the orders then required a regi- ment to contain eight hundred men before it could have a colonel mustered. The reports show that the 27th was in all the engagements of the 23d Corps during the months of May, June, July and August, participating in the fight- ing at Pumpkin Vine creek, Dallas, Kennesaw, and many other places. Crossing the Chattahoochee, we were in the battles around Atlanta. The loss of the regiment in the campaign was sixty-six killed and wounded.
The men who composed the 27th Ky. were young. many of them minors. They were from the country dis- tricts of Green river, and unfamiliar with everything mili- tary. Yet they were hardy and active, used to horseback riding and handling the rifle. There is a popular opinion that city boys are the best material for soldiers, but they could not be better than that composing this regiment. Within a year from enlistment the men were ready for any duty, and were as fine a body of soldiers as could be found in the service, patient under discipline, cheerfully enduring fatigue and exposure and exhibiting every- where a bravery that was superb.
The foregoing is the tribute of Col. Ward to his men. The writer of these sketches will add that the efficiency of the regiment was largely due to the excellence of its officers. Under the lead of Cols. Penne- baker and Ward, it could not fail to become a splendid organization. Col. Ward's continuous presence with the men was unusual. The regi- ment was never under fire, nor drilled as a battalion that Col. Ward was not in command, and a more gallant officer could not be found. Since the war he has shown the excellent qualities he displayed as a soldier. The adjutant of the regiment was James B. Speed, then and now a resident of Louisville. Though he was then under twenty years of age; he showed his efficiency as an officer, and gave evidence of the strong characteristics of his later manhood, which have placed him at the head of the business men of Louisville.
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Field and Staff.
COLONEL -- Charles D. Pennebaker. LIEUT. COL .- John H. Ward. MAJORS-John Carlisle, Samuel J. Coyne, Alexander Magruder. AD- JUTANTS-Daniel S. Waggener, James B. Speed. QUARTERMASTER -- Thomas R. McBeath. SURGEON-Robert L. Heston. ASST. SUR- GEONS-Thomas Sanders, Robert Dinwiddie. CHAPLAIN-Robert S. Gardner. SERT. MAJS .- Benjamin F. Pumphrey, John W. Jennings, William H. H. Taylor. Q. M. SERGT .- Willard Dewey. COM. SER- GEANTS-John F. Givan, David Gibson. HOSP. STEWARDS-Galt W. Booth, Rezin D. Overstreet.
Company "A."
CAPTAINS-Anderson Gray, William W. Brady. 1st LIEUTS .- Thomas R. McBeath, Benj. W. Cleaver. 2d LIEUT .- Robert V. Sands. SERGTS .- George A. Pearl, William C. McGrew, Joseph Ashley, Jeptha V. Nichols, John P. Golladay, Sylvester Milner, James W. Hackley, James R. Dunn, John W. Parrish. CORPLS .- Samuel Brunk, James W. Sands, John W. Stone, Liggin W. Kinkead, Franklin Montgomery, Isaac Armstrong, Moses Stone, Andrew J. Saleman, Clelland Beatty, James H. Gray. WAGONER-Henry P. Beatty.
PRIVATES-Miles Ashley, Squire Ashley, Jefferson G. Baker, James Burris, Albert Brunk, Edmund C. Baker, Francis A. Burkhead, John W. Burkhead, Edmund S. Bryan, Benjamin Cahill, William S. Carnes, Francis M. Cook, Andrew J. Cook, Charles A. Clark, James Carter, Eli Carter, Otis Coats, John R. Durbin, Richard Duvall, John M. Duvall, Edmund Decker, William H. Decker, John Drury, James M. DeWitt, Josiah Dennison, Uriah P. Fulkerson, William Fraise, John R. Fraise. James Ford, Isaac Fulkerson, William M. Fulkerson, John W. Gray, Joseph Gibson, Alexander Gaither, Wiley Gaither, James H. Grayson, George W. Henderson, James J. Harris, Riley Hatfield, Wm. W. Horn- back, Lewis Hays, Wm. . Hackitt, John U. Higdon, John T. Higdon, William C. Henderson, David Horn, Elijah Kelly, Solomon Kessinger, Josiah Kessenger, John M. Litsey, James Lock, William Minton, Alex- ander Minton, Anderson Minton, John Mudd, Henry P. Minton, Wm. C. Miller, Theordore A. McClure, William B. Nichols, James H. Nichols, C. A. Nichols, Wm. D. Nichols, Patrick O'Shain, George Oller, James R. O'Brien, John A. O'Brien, Wm. F. O'Conner, George H. Pearl, Buckner P. Pool, William Parker, James H. Ray, William Scott, John W. Sutton, Harrison Slinker, William Sanders, Charles Scott, George T. Thomas- son, Ira C. Winchel. William Whoberry, Ansel Whoberry, Isaac Willis, Barton Witten, Hiram Witten.
Company "B."
CAPTAINS-Lucian K. Cox, Thomas S. Hiner, Alanson M. Pulliam. 1st LIEUT .- Aaron Norton. 2d LIEUT .- Obediah Bassham. SERGTS. -William D. Given, Samuel H. Payne, Benj. Macy, Thomas Nevitt, Isaac J. Lewis, John A. Blanford, Charles L. Weatherford, John F. Givan, Barkstell S. Meador. CORPLS .- John F. Stinnett, Micajah H. Robins, Walter Jarboe, Adam Smith, Isaiah Dalton, Samuel Gilbert. Thos. H. Payne, John W. Aldridge, Sanford P. Milner. WAGONER -- Thomas P. Golladay.
PRIVATES-Simeon B. Armes, William Mc. Armes, Daniel Armes. Micajah Armes, Alfred Allen, Samuel Aldridge, Henry S. Aldridge. Elisha H. Brumfield, Minoah. S. Basham, Elijah C. Basham, Campbell Brown, William Bennington, John Burnett, Charles W. Chancellor. John R. Cravens, William A. Crews, Pius A. Coomes, Anslem Davidson. Thomas Dowell, William Farmer, William S. Galloway, Gregory Gallo- way, Jesse B. Gaddis. Daniel B. Huffines, Philo Huffines, John J. Hall. William P. Hall, William H. Hall, John H. Kennedy, Wm. A. Lampton, Augustin Lewis, Peter Lasley, Bartlett Milam, Charles A. Milam, Will- lam A. Milam, Henry Milam, Obediah H. Milam, William Meador, John MeNulty, Aaron Norton, Jeremiah M. Norton, John Nevitt, John J.
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Nevitt, Samuel M. Priest, William E. Priest, George C. Paul, Lloyd W. Payne, Joel E. Payne, Thos. F. Robins, George Robertson, Wm. (). Richardson, Jacob Smith, John E. Sample, William F. Stillwell, John M. Seeley, James Tucker, Littleberry Tate, John R. Tucker, Elijah B. Tucker, John H. Tabling, Allen Tucker, Richard S. Thompson, Clinton D. Wale, John C. Wheatly.
Company "C."
CAPTAIN-Andrew J. Bailey. 1st LIEUTS .- John W. McWharter. James W. Defevers. 2d LIEUTS .- Edmund R. Goode, James A. Fig- gett. SERGTS .- Silas L. Vance, Robert J. Stayton, George W. Lyons, John T. Defevers, Christopher Wilkinson, Charles H. Monday, Wm. T. Weatherington, William R. Powell, Richard M. Simpson. CORPLS .- Elijah T. Stayton, William H. Mills, James A. Gardner, Bazal Weather- ington, Robert A. Goode, James H. Monday, Alexander C. Martin, John C. Cundiff. Matthew Weatherington .. James H. Weatherington. WA- GONER-Lewis Davis.
PRIVATES-Levi Bryant, David Bryant, Junius C. Bryant, George B. Barlow, James Bottoms, Jacob Bell, Felix Brooks, James Brown, Thompson Blankenship, James H. Clemmons, Matthew Clemmons, Bur- nett H. Chism, John W. Coffey, Christopher Coffey, Walker Cox, Nath- aniel Davis, Isaac F. Dennison, Jesse U. Dennison, John M. Dennison, Samuel F. Dennison, William H. Dennison, Wm. Devour, George W. Earles, George W. Goode. John Griffin, Elijah Gilpin, David Harvey, Jesse Harvey, Nimrod Hatfield, Bernard M. Harben, William Hovons, James M. Hubbard. James Hovins, Urban G. Hendrickson, Andrew Jacobs. James Jacobs, Alpha Jacobs, John W. Jones, James W. Jones, James W. Lancaster, George W. Marple, William O. Mann, Benjamin Miles, Stephen C. Puckett, George Rogers, John Ross, Isaac Roten, George A. Sanders. Joshua B. Tucker, Spotswood Tucker, William H. Thompson, Elza Weatherington, Thomas Weatherington, Jas. P. Weatherington, Pius Weatherington, Achiles Weatherington, Urban W. Weatherington, Thos. J. Weatherington, Joseph Weatherington, Leo. O. Weatherington, Green R. Weatherington, William R. Weatherington, Raymond Ward, John W. White, George Woodrum, Thomas J. Wheeler.
Company "D."
CAPTAINS-Samuel J. Coyne, George Hammers. 1st LIEUT .- Peterson Roff. 2d LIEUT .- John W. S. Smith. SERGTS .- Martin Douthitt, John F. O. Schnepel, Charles M. Schaffer, John F. Simms. Isaac Lyons, Frederick M. Hogan, Richard A. S. Barger. CORPLS .-. Robert T. Maysey, John J. Klippert, G. W. Reynolds, Patrick Adkins. John R. Hawkins, John Young, Jr .. William M. Eskridge, Johnson Stiles, William L. West, Stephen Rollins, Charles C. Rollins. MUSI- CIAN-James A. Smith. WAGONERS-John T. Starr, John W. Noble.
PRIVATES-Andrew J. Agnew. William D. Agnew, Bartlett Adkins, Marshall Angel. David F. Barnes, Robert E. Black, Nelson Bell, Micajas Bennett, Charles Burriss, Noah Burriss. Harrison Brown, Ezra Bell. David H. Cunningham, Thomas Chambers, John Chambers, Jackson Carroll, Benjamin H. Canary, Lucian S. Clark, Marion W. Conner, Will- iam H. Casey, Rolla Clarke, Samuel P. Derbin, James Donald, Ell Dunn. Andrew S. Farmer, James A. Farmer, William L. Foot, John Hanks, William Hanks. James Haycraft, William J. Hawkins, William H. Hicks. Samuel A. Hicks. John Jarboe, Thomas J. Kelm, Stanley S. Kelm, John Kelm, John Lewis, Joshua Livingston, Morris Logan, Reuben E. Livers, Philip McWoodruff, Samuel McAfee, James McLary, George W. McKaughan. William A. Mitchell. John Nix, Samuel Noble, William 3. Overton, Isaac Pullin, George W. Pleasant, William J. Peckinpaugh, James H. Peckinpaugh, Martin W. Rollins, Henry E. Sims, Alfred N. Starr, Benjamin H. Starr, Micajah B. Stith, Squire W. Troutman, Silas M. Taber. Frederick Tinnis, John Vandegriff. Samuel P. Wilson, Will- iam M. Young, Davis T. Young, Martin V. Young.
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Company " E."
CAPTAINS-John R. Robinson, John R. Fisher, Thomas T. Fisher. Ist LIEUTS .- Benjamin A. Rice, Robert D. Willian. 2d LIEUTS .- Daniel B. Waggener, Alexander Shiveley. SERGTS .- Benjamin F. Douglass, Hardy U. Jaggers, Charles Taylor, May M. Hall, James A. Culberson, James H. McCubbins. CORPLS .- Rezen D. Overstreet, Sr., Fleming S. Benningfield, William J. Sullivan, Francis M. Taylor, Will- fam H. Kertly, John S. Seay, William J. Hall, William H. Smith.
PRIVATES-Andrew J. Avery, John S. Benningfield, William Ben- nett, Samuel S. Bennett, John T. Bergen, Julius F. Boston, Paul C. Bowles, Joseph S. Cassedy, William A. Colvin, James Durham, William Durham, Thomas Eaten, David Elkin, Robert W. Estes, David Gibson, William Green, George Green, George W. Godby, James L. Horton, Will- iam T. Horton, Oscar F. Horton, William Harrison, Samuel Hodges, John Ireland, Andrew J. Jones, George W. Jones, William Jones, Robert L. Kerr, William C. Kerr, William Lambert, John R. Lobb, George W. Mears, William J. Moore, Dudley Middleton, Martin L. Mitchell, Henry Mason, John J. Martin, Samuel B. McCubbins, George T. McCubbins, John S. Newcomb, Matthew T. Newcomb, James Over- street, Razin Overstreet, Jr., Willis Prewett, James F. Prewitt, William Pointer, James H. Pointer, William T. Puryear, Dandridge Poor, Charles W. Poor, Samuel A. Philips, James K. Philpot, Daniel T. Reynolds, Thomas Reynolds, James M. Richison, Randolph W. Rice, Albert G. Smith, David J. Smith, John R. Smith, Benjamin S. Smith, William W. Smith, James M. Smith, James F. Skaggs, Bird W. H. Skaggs, Alfred S. Skaggs, George W. Sexton, Rodolph C. Thorp, Thomas B. Witherspoon, George W. Wheat, Booker Wheat, John W. Whitley, William Whitman, John Wright, Gustavus Wallace.
Company "F."
CAPTAIN-Henry B. Grant. 1st LIEUTS .- John H. Adams, Riley Wilson, Daniel B. Goode, John W. Taylor. SERGTS .- John L. Notting- ham, Hardin F. Judd, Thomas F. Lucas, Edward F. Smiley, Green B. Payne, Thomas M. Basham. CORPLS .- Jonathan G. Cocke, James M. Lockard, Samuel T. Smith, William F. Nottingham, William Richard- son, James Givens, Henry T. Blantford, John Smiley. MUSICIAN-John Carman. WAGONER-Greenberry Robinson.
PRIVATES-Berry S. Armes, James Armes, William Blair, Charles Blair, Adam Brewster, John T. Brown, James L. Brown, William Butler, Ewing Burks, William Carman, Elijah Carman, Christopher C. Carman, Hardin Carman, Frazier Carman, Ralph M. Crume, Edward L. Clark, Ralph Clark, Robert Clark, James W. Clements, Thomas Curley, James Dunn, Felix Dowell, Jackson Davidson, Levi Elliott, John W. Eanes, Samuel Farrow, Felix Galloway, Philip Greenwell, John Greenwell, Berry Greenwell, Michael Haney, James Howard, John Horsley, Stephen Horsley, George W. Hiter, John M. Hay. Joseph W. Hudson, Joseph Hudson, George M. Johnson, Warden Kinnison, Ben. H. Lucas, Benja- min Lucas, Charles Lucas, Jr., Richard Z. Lucas, William Lucas. Joseph Lucas, Edward Lucas, John W. Moore, James F. Mattingly, Allen Not- tingham, Anthony Prewitt, Presley P. Paul, Daniel Preston, Edward P. Paul, Isaiah Pulliam, Edward Quiggins, William C. Quiggins, Thomas Roney, Samuel B. Robinson, Henry T. Smith, George H. Smiley, Thos. C. P. Sipes, William P. Tucker, Thomas W. Tucker, Ira Wilson, Robert Wilson, Wilson T. Wilson. Roland Wilson, David H. Wilson, Reuben M. Whitacker, Peter M. Winnings, Richard Woodson.
Company "G."
CAPTAINS-Harvey W. Sutton, James Griffin. 1st LIEUTS .- Will- lam Wilson, Henry H. Didway. SERGTS .- Charles A. Dean, Robert Barbour, Joseph Rogers, Asaph A. Quigley, James Dougherty, David Edinger, Johnson W. Glover, Angus I .. Martin, William Ammerman, Robert Munroe. CORPLS .- Joseph .Walthall, Erastus Goodrich, Will- lam R. Arnold ..
PRIVATES-Joseph Anderson, Jacob Anderson, William H. Ander-
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son, Jacob Adams, John C. Ashe, Thomas Anthony George Bechtold. John T. Bergen Robert Buchanan, James A. Crist, Benjamin F. Casey. John C. Casey, James E. Christy, John H. Cooper, William J. Cooper, Ashbill B. Carle, Thompson Copen, Bartlett Copen, George W. Copen, James Dearnon, Morton B. Finck, Gustave Greisenbroker, John Gear- hart, Frederick Gearhart, Samuel Gloar, G. T. Gallion, Charles Hartzog, Albert Huebner, George Harper, Harvey Hopkins, Jasper Hutchins. Christopher Hartman, Luther C. High, Simeon Helms, Henry B. Hodges, James J. Johnson, John Jones, Lewis Kurtz, John Krout, Andrew Knight, Edward D. Kemp, W. H. Lockwood, Ferdinand Limback, Asa Lewis, James E. London, Thos. W. Ludington, John Middleton, John Marshall. Peter Mills, Patrick Marcey, Henry Mason, George T. McKee, John P. McDonald, John Noll. John Owens, William R. Owens, Robert S. Owens, John O'Rourk, James O'Rourke, Edmine O'Neil, Roderick Philips, John T. Rose, John Rose, John J. Spencer, Jacob F. Stewart, Frederick R. Smith, George Snyder, William H. Stark, John Stiner, Thomas T. Skel- ton, Western F. Tucker, John W. Thompson, Abram White, John Willis. Isaac Works.
Company "H."
CAPTAINS-Albert B. Ragsdale, Beckwith Bealmear. 1st LIEUT .- John W. Jennings. 2d LIEUTS .- George W. Williams, Basil B. Sum- mers. SERGTS .- William H. Aubrey, Charles H. Jupin, Robert F. Craddock, Augustus P. Kurtz, George W. Duncan, Richard Hopkins. CORPLS .- James B. Overall, Ephraim W. Standiford, Josiah Hall. Henry L. Tucker, William G. Thomas, Benjamin F. Barnes, William T. Smith, William F. Perry, William H. H. Taylor, William Neff, Green- berry Shehan, Albert C. Taylor. WAGONER-Thomas Marlow.
PRIVATES-Samuel Anderson, James Anderson, Robert W. Barnes, A. H. Boles, James H. Bingham, James Bates, William J. Consley, John Casteel, James Campbell, Thomas J. Caswell, William P. Daugherty, Gabriel R. Daugherty, Thomas Doudle, Joseph Davis, Willard Dewey. John O. Edwards, John Fenwick, Greenberry Gilbert, James E. Gray, William D. Gildersleve, James W. Hubbard, Charles Hopkins, Samuel A. Hardin, Thomas G. Holloway, Joseph Hale, William S. Jordan, James Kendle, Andrew Long, Andrew J. Lile, Harrison Logsden, Joseph Logs- den, Caffrey Martin, James L. Martin, Finius C. Mann, John W. Pointer, Pleasant C. Priddy, William Price, Benj. F. Pumphrey, James A. Pointer, Oliver Riley, Wm. B. Rogers, Alfred B. Thomas, Isaac Thomas. Henry C. Thomas, David Thurman, Benjamin F. Whitlock, John E. Wooldridge, Jesse A. Wilson, George D. Winston, Brice S. Whitlock, John K. West, John A. Whitlock.
Company "I."
CAPTAINS-William F. Hervey, Benjamin F. Pumphrey, E. W. Frank. 1st LIEUT .- Samuel H. Haynes. 2d LIEUTS .- William B. White, Joseph S. Higdon. SERGTS .- Stephen D. Babbett, Andrew J. Oller, George W. Kinkaid, Willis Frank, James D. Kiper. CORPLS .- Willis C. Houchins, Joseph B. Sullivan, Stephen Frank, John Downs. MUSICIANS-Robert Scott, John Laslie.
PRIVATES-Ancel Allen. Iredel D. Buckles, William H. Coats. Charles Cox, William Cox, Nelson Cox, Pearson W. Clifford, Edmund Day, Harvey Decker, Squire J. Decker, Jacob Edwards, William A. Ed- wards, William Fraim, James P. Flemmon, Benjamin Glass, Jacob Glass Benjamin F. Glass, Jesse Glass, Henry Glass, Moses Hatfield, Jonathan Hicks, William M. Higgs, Isaac Hays, Sr., Isaac Hays, Jr., John Irving. Francis M. Jones, Samuel Kiper, William Kiper, William Kirby, William Kinser, Alexander Meredith, John R. Meredith, Stroud Meredith. Thomas Meredith, Abraham Meredith, Sanford P. Pool, James Round- tree, William Smoot, Hardin Stevenson, Dorsey B. Stone, John Salling. Isaac Schall. Charles Willhelm, John Willhelm, Jr., Joseph Willis, James M. Williams, Preston Williams, John Willhelm, Sr., Joseph Wilson, James Wilson, Peter Wilson, Thomas Willis.
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Twenty-eighth Kentucky Infantry.
The 28th Ky. Infantry was recruited and organized at Louisville, Ky., by Col. Win. P. Boone. The first recruit- ing that was done at Louisville was for companies of home guards. Some of these companies went into Camp Joe Holt across the river, while others remained in Louis- ville, and did not go into the United States service until the days of neutrality were passed. Col. Boone had been very active during the spring and early summer of 1861 organizing companies of guards under the authority of the City of Louisville. By an ordinance of the city coun- vil a regiment of these guards was raised and drilled as early as 1861. Col. Boone commanded the companies belonging to the west end and Col. Curran Pope com- manded those in the east end. Many men from these companies went over to Camp Joe Holt, and were there when the Confederates, under Gen. Buckner, came into the state in September and threatened Louisville. Gen. Rousseau led the companies from Camp Joe Holt, Louis- ville, to Muldraugh's Hill, where they remained several days, and then returned in September.
Upon the return of the Home Guards from Mul- draugh's Hill in September, 1861, Col. Wm. P. Boone, then a member of the legislature from Louisville, having been elected in August, and who had been active in organizing the Home Guards, was authorized to raise a regiment for the United States service. Nearly the whole of six or seven of the Home Guard companies promptly enlisted under him, and others joining with them, the 28th regi- ment of Ky. Vol. Infantry was formed. Associated with Col. Boone was Lieut. Col. A. Y. Johnson, of Louisville, and J. Rowan Boone, son of the colonel, a young man of great spirit, who subsequently commanded the regiment.
About the 1st of October, Col. Boone obtained tents and went into camp at Shepherdsville. In December, the regiment went to New Haven. In the year 1862 it was used to guard the L. & N. railroad. In June four companies were on the Lebanon branch and other companies were at Bowling Green and Franklin, Ky. The regiment was assigned to Dumont's brigade, Buell's army. In July two companies with Col. Boone were at Gallatin, Tenn., and being scattered at different points along the railroad, 120 men, with Col. Boone himself, were captured by Gen. John H. Morgan.
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This affair was investigated at the time by Capt. Wal- worth Jenkins, of the regular army, who relieved Col.
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Boone from blame. Lieut. Col. I. W. Scott was after- wards appointed to investigate further and the examina- tion showed that Col. Boone had sent out a detachment the evening before to co-operate with a force sent out by Col. S. D. Bruce, which weakened Col. Boone's force at . Gallatin. Col. Scott found that this was "properly done and for good reasons, and that there was a high order of discipline in his regiment, that he was remarkably vigi- lent and industrious. That he made every effort to obtain reinforcements and to have a stockade built but without success." That his small force "could not, with any prospect of success, have fought 1,200 or 1,500 of the enemy."
"On the whole," says he, "I can see in this case no want of zeal or gallantry on the part of Col. Boone and no rea- son why he should not be freed from all blame or censure in this unfortunate affair."
He also says "with regard to Capt. Hughes, the proof is abundant that he was vigilant and attentive to his duties, and therefore I consider that he was not to blame for his conduct in the transaction."
This report was signed by Lieut. Col. I. W. Scott, 5th Ky. Cavalry, and by Lieut. Col. A. M. Stout, 17th Ky. In- fantry.
Col. Boone being absolved from any blame, and being soon after exchanged, was with his command at Clarks- ville.
At Clarksville and Columbia, by order of Gen. Rose- crans, the regiment was mounted. For a number of months it was on excessively hard duty as mounted infan- try, being moved from point to point in the state of Ten- nessee and engaging in many skirmishes and encounters with the enemy. It served with Rosecrans' army in all its operations up to and including the battle of Chicka- mauga.
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