USA > Kentucky > The Union regiments of Kentucky, Vol. 2 > Part 6
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47
412
Union Regiments of Kentucky.
,
Bell, Charles Corum, Edward Laremore, Reuben Lobb. Elum Milley. James Milley, Andrew A. Neagle, Orzious M. Noe, William D. Oakes, Thomas Underwood, William Underwood, James T. Lobb, Richard Sut- ton, Henry F. Shofner, William C. Tolley, James T. Young, John F. Bennett, Isham H. Curry, David P. Curry, John Campion, John P. Davis. George R. Erwin, Mansfield Erwin, Robert Erwin, Richard W. Hudgen James S. Hudgen, James B. Hazelle, Samuel Houk, James P. Lile, Lewis B. Marcum, Arnold Nelson, James Sutton, Felix T. Sidebottom, James F. Ward, Jesse Underwood, Henry Moron, James M. Morry, Josiah Rus- sell, Henry S. Arnett, Milton Bloyd, Rufus A. Fulks, John J. C. Gore, Valentine P. Town, John M. Faulkner.
Company "B." .
CAPTAINS-Thos. T. Alexander, Harrison Q. Hughes, Oliver B. Patterson. 1st LIEUTS .- Nathan G. Butler, William J. Atkins. 2d LIEUT .- James R. Hindman. SERGTS .- John R. Johnson, Isaac N. Williams, William C. Wolford, William Butler, John D. Calhoun, Joshua Butler, Dominicus Conover. CORPLS .- Lewis A. Bradshaw, Henry C. Walker, Silas M. Ray, George W. McElroy, Felix G. Hurt, William Blair. James F. Vigus, George W. Flowers, Jr., Francis M. Harvey, John S. Miller, James East, John Ross. WAGONER-William T. Staples. MUSICIAN-Harrison J. Walker.
PRIVATES-Wm. T. Acre, John H. Bristo, Peter M. Bryant, John T. Barbee, Alfred A. Briggs, William C. Cabell, William H. Conover, Jas. K. P. Conover, George Cook, James R. Campbell, Charles M. Dener, John M. Dornell, John D. Edrington, Thomas B. Flowers, George W. Flowers. Henry C. Gosser, Leslie C. Hurd, Isaac Keith, Wilson Lewis, Jackson G. Loveall, Napoleon B. Loveall, George W. Mckinsey, Charles W. Mc- Kinsey, Wm. J. Moore, Timothy F. Nell, Redman O'Neal, Alfred L. Pendleton, William Powell, Miley Polley, Waitsville Perryman, Cornelius Ross, Zachariah Roy, Elijah Roy, Zachariah L. Samewell, William J. Shewell, James A. Smith, Zachariah M. Staples, Henry A. Todd, Volun- tine C. Wheat, Harrison Womack, Thompson Baker, Jr., Charles W. Burton, Wm. L. Calhoun, John N. Campbell, John Canton, Thomas J. Hopper, Thomas A. Keiton, Gideon Loveall, Joseph Mckinney, Joseph H. Powell, William W. Page, William C. Roy, John W. Smith. Doctor H. Wheat, William Womack, Benjamin Burbridge, William J. Burbridge, Dominicus Conover, Thomas H. Cook, Wm. O. Dellingham. Richard Eubank, George J. Hurt. Milton Judd, George O. Tyler, Morton L. Vigus, William M. Burgess, Henry Burk, Johnn M. Burk, James N. Calhoun, James E. Dellingham, Perry Harvey, Josiah T. Hunley, Berry Holt. James H. Rose, Milton Ross, Jones W. Roy, Robert W. Smily, William W. Turk, Calvin J. Walker, James Young, David M. Curry, James T. Curry, Hiram J. Conover, Levi Darnett, Joseph H. Lewis. Thomas R. Combest, Isaac Collins, Samuel M. Green, John Powell. William Stephens.
Company "C."
CAPTAINS-Rodophil E. Jeter. Benjamin V. Banks. ist LIEUT .- Christopher C. Christie. 2d. LIEUTS .- Samuel H. Murrell, Charles M. Sallee. SERGTS .- Patrick O. Ford, Robert B. Steger, George A. Hardin, William L. Watson, John R. Cundiff, Robert M. Rodgers. CORPLS .- John E. Pike, Joseph Hood, Horace May, Abner H. Cave, William T. Buckner, Jones H. Howard, Shelby Brockman, Samuel G. Watson, Lyttleton M. Watson, James H. Woodrur. WAGONER-George W. Sul- livan. MUSICIAN-John J. Robertson.
PRIVATES-John D. Absher, William N. Breeden, Henry J. Burton. John H. Breeden. Aylette Buckner, Levi B. Clark, John T. Chaney, Wayne A. Coffey, Thomas C. Dudgeon, Robert P. Daugherty, Ben. T. Edrington, Joseph Harden, William E. Hancock, Creed H. Hatcher. George Hendrickson, Paschal Harris, Joel T. Lee, John M. Murrell, Elihu L. McHarlan. William W. Page, James R. Page, William H. Robertson, Wesley M. Sherrell, Abram Sherrell, William R. Smith, William G. Wallace, Absalom C. Atkisson. Thomas F. Allen, William S. Brockman, James S. Fobis, William Grant, Jesse Hood, John Harden, Alexander F. Harden, Jordon Page, Elija Pike, James R. Romines, James Stapleton,
413
Thirteenth Kentucky Infantry. .
William T. Steannor. John W. Turpin, Johnn J. White, Levi W. Absher, John D. Edengton, George W. Flowers, William J. Moore, Timothy F. N.11, Elijah Roy, Zachariah S. Samuels, Joel Epperson, Robert F. Far- xurson, Solomon Frost, George W. Hancock, Jackson D. Judd, Green B. McFarden, Wilson Pendine, Samuel F. Pike, Royal E. Phillipps, Cor- nelius Roberts, William P. Romines, James A. Shepperd, Robert A. Smith, William W. Sherrell, Jackson Skaggs, Thomas J. Dudgeon, Robert 11. Cofer, Asa E. Cantrell, Daniel Epperson, John P. Vance, Benjamin Yarber.
Company "D."
CAPTAINS-Benjamin P. Estes, Wm. W. Woodruff. 1st LIEUT .- William P. Oldham. 2d LIEUTS .- John R. Price, Wm. H. Hall. SER- GEANTS-James W. Vanzant, John C. Fletcher, Joseph H. Oldham, John Roe, James R. Nicholas, William E. Gibbins, William S. Jones CORPLS .-- W'm. C. Demenburn, John A. Coffey, Tyler B. Spencer, James P. Price, Joseph H. Ball, John M. Wilson, George A. Kemp, Joseph M. Demenburn, Charles O. Page, Jesse G. Leftwick, James R. Pernell. MUSICIANS-William E. Pedigo, John H. Pedigo, Joseph G. Tarter. WAGONER-John H. Wilson.
PRIVATES-Nathan G. Dohoney, James England, James R. Fletcher, General Jackson Fires, Joseph E. Gill, Robert H. Hamlet, Samuel Harbison, Spencer Janes, Lawson M. Janes, George A. Keltner, John R. Keltner, James E. Leftwich, Willis McCandless, John McCandless, Jas. L. Moore, Joel O. Moore, Thomas G. Moss, Thomas R. Price, Marion Rodgers, Thomas Ronamus, James M. Skaggs, Robert G. Vanzant, John (. Vanzant. James M. Vanzant, Joseph B. Wilcutt, Aaron Williams, William R. Willis, John W. Demenburn, Marshall Bragg, William Chad- wich, Thomas G. Coffey, Joseph R. Estes, Amos Eskeer, Isaac N. Herniger, Cicero Herniger, Joseph J. Jesse. Avey S. Laswell, Thomas V. Nichols, Joseph A. Norris, Alexander K. Rodgers, Gideon B. Runyan, Thos. U. Reed, Jasper Compton, Peter Compton, John B. Denton, John H. Demumbrum, William H. Hopper, Franklin G. Towles, David Ander- son, Bartemus Bragg, Charles W. Davis, Frederick Grider, Willis Kemp, James S. Kelley, Blackham Kelly, Hiram Newberry, Charles R. Oldham, James A. Peers, Henry G. Pernell, Henry H. Tarter, Ellis W. Wigginton, James T. Wilson, John F. Dulin, James Spencer, William M. Sullivan, Harrison M. Stephens.
Company "E."
CAPTAINS-Thomas O. Moore, James W. Woodward, Samuel Bot- tom, Nathaniel F. Twyman. 1st LIEUTS .- Edward P. Allen, Elisha B. Gardner. 2d LIEUT .- Richard Henderson. SERGTS .- Hardin T. Tucker, Elijah T. Tucker, James C. Vance, James T. Miller, Robert J. Tayler, James P. Brown, Avalett H. Calhoun. CORPLS .- George R. Chapman. John H. Wouldridge, Richard B. Sutton, Elum Melby. John H. Briggs, Andy M. Taylor, James M. Curry, Daniel G. Minor. WAG- ONERS -- John R. Syllender, John .A. Cavin. MUSICIANS-Louis Freek- ing, James T. Hudson.
PRIVATES-James E. Calhoun, William A. Chapman, Richard T. Chapman, John D. Dobson, Samuel B. Dobson, Lewis W. Ellison, John L. Ellett, Robert G. Gupton, James W. Gupton, James J. Gilbert, James I. Hamilton, Joseph T. Hall, John M. Mckinney, William L. Noe, Will- iam Oakes, Henry Oakes, Henry M. Price, Francis M. Price, George W. Price, Solomon Petman, Starling K. R. Petman, Isaac Reed, Jerry Skaggs, William Schofner, Marcus L. Sublett, John H. Vance, William E. Wouldridge, James L. Akidge, James M. Curry, Jesse Curry, Robert B. Holland. James Milby, Daniel G. Oakes, John W. Price, William H. Thompson, John H. Thompson, Lucian T. Vance, Rufus Bowles, Daniel P. Curry, Thomas Milty, Daniel F. Marcum, Andrew J. Sumpter, G. M. Smith, Lewis G. Strader, James M. Ward, Jas. R. Bubb, Napoleon T. Calhoun, William H. Curry, Alfred W. Gaddie, Timothy G. Hay, William J. Morrison, James W. Morgan, William G. Price, Lemarcus R. Ray, Peter W. Strader, Bayler H. Sherrell, Mathew F. Taylor, William J. Gaddie, Samuel Pitman, John Petman, William J. Underwood, James A. Wilcox, James F. Underwood.
414
Union Regiments of Kentucky.
Company "F."
CAPTAINS-John P. Duncan, Champness D. Butler, John H. Hazard. 1st LIEUTS .- Robert H. Turner, Luther Morris. 2d LIEUTS .- Holland Jones, Samuel A. Jones, William T. Martin. SERGTS .- James Wilson, Thomas W. Wilson, William W. Martin, William Mings. CORPLS .- Joseph H. Arvin, Enoch J. Jones, John D. Hay, John T. Smith, Francis N. Hackley, David Marshall, Jesse Loyall, Samuel S. Allen.
PRIVATES-William H. Bright, John S. Chisen, John M. Druen, John French, Richard French, James French, Samuel R. Faris, Robert H. Faris, Archibald Hash, Holland Hedspeth, David Morris, William F. Morris, Holland Morris, James B. Morris, John G. Mings, David B. Mann, John T. Nelson, James Nelson, George W. Parrott, Sylvester Price, Will- iam Ratliff, Archibald Ratliff, George A. Rice, John Starns, Eastern Shipp, John H. Shipp, William Wright, Lafayette Williams, Berry Whit- lock, William J. Anderson, James Cave, Andrew Chism, Thomas Childers. William F. Dezain, Richard Dewitt, Edward Graham, James L. Gill, Thomas Hash, Woodruff Haskins, James L. Redford, James A. Ratliff, William Sullivan, Joshua Underwood, Alfred A. Biggs, James Hash, William R. Smith, James B. Allen, John A. Beard, Robert Cave, Richard Coyle, William Dewitt, Benjamin F. Dye, Enoch Jones, Thomas R. Morris, George W. Morris, James H. Smith, Woodson Whitlock, Samuel Wright, Nathan Cox, Ezekiel Graham, William R. Parrott, George W. Carlisle, William French, Jesse F. Harris, Cyrus Perrott.
Company "G."
CAPTAINS-Isaac R. H. Caldwell, Samuel W. Moore, Elijah F. Tucker. 1st LIEUTS .- Isaac T. Hizer, Samuel J. Cabbell, Jacob D. Bradford. 2d LIEUTS .- Thomas A. Low, Tucker W. Sullivan, Wm. H. Stearman. SERGTS .- Benjamin F. Chenning, James L. Eckels, Will- iam J. Paxton, Hugh W. Hopkins, Mathew W. Paxton, Wm. T. Wilson. CORPLS .- Mathew T. Rutledge, Joseph M. Allen, Charles H. Picket, Franklin Henderson, Hugh B. Moor.
PRIVATES-Edward B. Clark, Joseph Franklin, William P. Grove, Francis H. Groves, Abraham Landis, John W. Lowe, Aaron Martin, William T. Mawpin, Samuel Moulton, John W. Paxton, William E. Pax- ton, William T. Sullivan, Daniel Sullivan, 1st, Washington T. Sullivan, Daniel Sullivan, 2d, Benjamin B. Stults, George W. Smith, William Underwood, Hugh W. Wilson, Charles . Wright, John W. Bayley, James L. Despain, George W. Eckols, John W. Groves, Samuel P. Hood, Patrick Rush, William H. Turner. Thomas J. Wilson, John D. Ashber. Abraham Chaplain, Joel M. Curry, Wayne Cuffey, Reuben H. Houk, Robert Irvin, Richard A. Lile, Henry Moran, Jordon Page, Wm. W. Robertson, Joab Russell, Charles M. Sallie, Samuel W. Smith, Flavius J. Taylor, John M. Thomas, Hiram Underwood, Wm. J. Wallace, Wm. C. Wright, Isaac W. Burries, Leonard D. Clark, Edward L. Eckels, Pliver J. Epperson, Wm. H. Henderson, Wm. A. Hazle, James Henderson, Burrell R. Keen, Tally C. Slinks, Ishbrow Striker, John F. Smith, Thomas J. Turner, Wm. G. Workman, Robert M. Maupin, Isaac H. Sullivan, Alfred A. Burris, Will- iam W. Burris, Daniel Chancy, John Keer, Charles Mckinney, Henry T. Shafier.
Company "H."
CAPTAINS-Edward W. Graham, Wallace Victor, James R. Hind- man. 1st LIEUTS .- Elijah J. Graham, George W. Flowers, Jesse Des- pain. 2d LIEUT .- James H. Hagan. SERGTS .- Daniel Peace, William H. H. McClain, J. P. L. McCubbins, William E. Chaney, Colonel Warren. CORPLS .- Leroy Lewis, James H. Despain, Robert B. Town, George W. Miller, Richard Hudgeons, Jefferson Skaggs, Jesse Thompson. WAG- ONER-Wm. Despain. MUSICIANS-Peter Dobson, Sylvester Etherton.
PRIVATES-John Arkridge, Thomas Ausburn, Richard Corum. John R. clark, Richard Druin, Warren Elmore, George W. Pedigo, Benjamin Pedigo, Joseph Peace, William Peace, Jesse Purvis, Berry Reed, James M. Skaggs, James Sallsman, Henry Sallsman, Samuel D. Underwood, Levi Cravat, William Cravat, Thomas T. Davis, Joseph Russell. William A. Smith, Stephen S. Skaggs, Thomas Thompson, William T. Acree, William J. Coner, John N. Campbell, James K. Campbell, Jeremiah Ether-
415
Thirteenth Kentucky Infantry.
ton, Benjamin M. Golden, Henry Holthouse, Berry Holt, Calloway Hodge. James E. Hasher, Thomas F. Keeton. Fenel G. Nance, William W. Page, Joseph H. Reed, Thomas Skaggs, William S. Skaggs, Sr., William S. Skaggs, Jr., Maston E. Thompson, William P. Thompson, Harrison Womack, E. Davies, Robert W. Elkin, Washington Fryar, George E. Golden, William H. Hute, William M. Nance, William R. Pearce, Jose Parker, John Pace, Ottoway B. Skaggs, Elijah Skaggs, Joseph Lee, Sampson Underwood, Thomas Etherton, Robert Etherton, H. Green- wood, James H. Morris, Hamilton Means, John B. Perkins, Thomas Price. John C. Skaggs, Jas. Spurling, Chalum Underwood, Edward L. Vaughn, Napoleon Vaughn, Benjamin Druin.
Company "I."
CAPTAINS-Charles Stewart, Giles A. Gallup, William H. Stratton. 2d LIEUT .- James M. Bradley. SERGTS .- Joel T. Stark, Samuel A. Wells, Levi Chappell, George P. Dick, Thomas M. Armstrong, Simeon P. Bryant. Abraham F. Kipping, William Cook, Wm. P. Wright, John Stewart. CORPLS .- Thomas C. Townsend, George T. Wells, William A. Laurence, John S. Brickey, George W. Tapp. MUSICIANS-Gustavis E. Miller, John Quinley. WAGONER-Harvey Harlan.
PRIVATES-Michael Bristleham, John M. Glass, Thomas M. High. Sandford B. Hisle, Thomas Kiphart, George O. B. Kenneson, James T. McAllister. Charles L. Martin, Thomas Mulligan, Joseph W. T. Norman, Henry T. Oliver, John Quinn, Samuel Sublett, Charles Sipes, George H. Simmons, William Whiteworth, William Arvin. Clark M. Admire, Lewis Atkinson, John D. Amos, Theodore B. Burton, John W. Bush, Martin Celler, George W. Johnson, William T. Kerlin, William B. McGinley. John W. Pate, Michael Razer, Garrett D. Stratton, Benjamin Secracry, Thomas O. Swope, Thomas W. Davis, Benjamin Foster, Thomas Ken- nedy, Edward Murray, Abraham Nibling, John Sheridan, John E. Adcock. Price E. Cook, Wm. T. Dagner, John Glass, John Hayden, Francis M. Head, Evans Horsley, Alexander Hatfield, John Hind, John N. Judd, John McAllister, Morgan D. Miles, William Morris, Henry Nieman. Samuel Parks, Francis Stone, David M. Springer, Michael Suttles, Adam Wallace, Henry Cummings, William F. Head, Richard F. Haddex. Albert Martin, Mark Oday, David Robinson, David J. Stone, Robert Schuyler.
Company "K."
CAPTAINS-Peter S. Rush, Patrick G. Fisher, Albert N. Jett. 1st LIEUTS .- Wm. L. Lee, Joel S. Veluzat. 2d LIEUT .- Charles Mc- Cracken. SERGTS .- Joseph S. Wilson, Josiah S. Jett, Adanms T. Harbison, Wm. M. Bowling, Henry A. Tuder, Ulrich Bashardt, George R. Suttles, Charles A. Archer. CORPLS .-- John H. H. Henke, Harrison Grissom, Joseph G. Brenton, Mathew Wade, Devastus H. Wilson, An- thony H. Ball, Martin Smit.
PRIVATES-Charles Ames, George W. Ash, Zachariah C. Bran- steller. Benjamin J. Button, William C. Button, Charles A. Edwards, John M. Fudge, James C. Franklin, John B. Glass, John T. Hammon. Congrave Hoover, Edward J. Huffman. Calloway Hodge, John W. Jones. Albert Jesse, William B. Kendall, Joseph H. Myers, Jeptha T. Mitchell, Henry W. Martin, Marcus L. Murry, Jacob C. Mayfield. Isaiah C. Mc- Guire, Frederick Niehans, William M. Nance, Joseph P. Pedigo, Beverly F. Pace. David S. Pursley, James W. Perkins, Joseph N. Parkes, William J. Parkes, Elija S. Reed, Aaron T. Supplee, George W. Smith, James J. Tudor, John T. Wade, Nicholas F. Whitlow, John W. Whitesides, John L. Bransteller, Martin Bartly, James T. Baldock, Nathaniel Estes, John Ferguson, John Hicks, John W. Hunt, Barzilla Jones, James W. Levis. Isaac M. Mayfield, Jacob Mayfield, Jr .. Fendall G. Nance, John I. Pedigo, James Perkins, Samuel C. H. Twilger, Samuel P. Thompson, Madison Wade, Henry F. Ash, John S. Butler, John S. Coban, George W. Harbison. Thos. D. Lingenfetter, James H. McBarney, Leonidas M. Pointer, Uriah G. Tilley, Thomas M. Wood, Robert F. Beale, Bolislaw Browniski, John Coon, William R. Estes, James B. Estes, Thomas J. Huffmary, James M. Kyle, William H. Mayfield. Nelson W. Nunnaly, James Rush, John S. Reed, Walter H. Ward, James Witty, David H. Dean, Walter H. Glover. Thomas P. Pedigo, John M. Ramsey.
416
Union Regiments of Kentucky.
Fourteenth Kentucky Infantry.
The 14th Ky. Infantry was organized in the fall of 1861, at Louisa, Ky., by Col. Laban T. Moore. Associated with him were Colonels John C. Cochran, George W. Gallup; Lieutenant-Colonels Joseph R. Brown, Orlando Brown, R. M. Thomas; Majors Wm. B. Burke, Drury J. Burchet and Adjutants John F. Babbitt and E. J. Roberts, together with the various captains and lieutenants of companies.
The section of the state where the regiment was raised required not only organization of military forces, but their continual presence being on the border of Virginia, and subject to incursions of the enemy throughout the war.
The 14th was regularly mustered into the service De- cember 10, 1861, by Lieut. C. B. Throckmorton of the regular army. During the process of organization in the fall of 1861, the enemy was in close proximity all the time, and the 14th was employed for considerable time in that section. It was engaged in numerous encounters before it was mustered into service, fighting at Ivy Mountain and Middle Creek. It was in the command of Gen. Garfield. who in January, '62, reported the 14th as "composed of excellent material, but not yet drilled and disciplined."
Col. Moore resigned January 1, 1862, and January 6th Lieut. Col. John C. Cochran was made colonel in his stead. Col. Cochran commanded the regiment about one year. excepting such time as he had charge of the brigade. Col. Cochran was from Fayette county, Ky., and at the outbreak of the war was lieutenant of a military com. pany at Lexington, known as the "Chasseurs," of which Sanders Bruce was captain.
During the winter of 1862 the 14th continued on duty in the Big Sandy region, in Gen. Garfield's command. In the spring of 1862 Gen. Buell sent an expedition under Gen. George W. Morgan, to capture Cumberland Gap. The 14th accompanied this expedition, and the Gap was taken June 18th. The approach was from both sides, and the 14th engaged in a severe fight at Tazewell, Tenn., in the movement from that side. Col. Cochran's horse was killed under him.
Gen. George Morgan's command remained in occupa- tion of Cumberland Gap until September 17th, when the invasion of Kentucky by Bragg and others compelled him to abandon it, and make the celebrated march across the east end of the state to the Ohio river. This successful
1 417
Fourteenth Kentucky Infantry.
retreat was one of the brilliant military achievements of the war.
Gen. Morgan in his account of this movement pub- lished in the Century War Book, says:
The Confederates were invading Kentucky in three columns; Bragg on the left, Smith in the center, Marshall on the right. They regarded the capture or destruction of my division as certain. Our situation was in- deed critical. We had been three months in this isolated position. Our only reasonable hope of succor had been destroyed by the defeat and dispersion of Nelson's forces at Richmond, August 30th. We were des- titute of forage.
The only thing he could do was to abandon the Gap and attempt to march to the Ohio river. Having de- termined to do this, he says:
Holding out the idea that we were seeking to obtain supplies by way of the barren wilderness through which I proposed to reach the Ohio, I had previously caused Lieut. Col. Geo. W. Gallup, of the 14th Ky., a soldier of rare merit, to send me at intervals men of his command familiar with the country through which each day's march would have to be made. The information given me by these brave mountaineers was discouraging.
But that was all that could be done. September 17th Gen. Morgan received word that a flag of truce was ap- proaching; he says: "I sent Lieut. Col. Gallup, with a small escort, a few shrewd officers, to meet the enemy's flag outside our picket lines." While the conference was going on an explosion accidentally occurred in the Gap. A Confederate officer said to Col. Gallup, "this looks like an evacuation"; Gallup in an off-hand way replied, "not much," and succeeded in removing the sus- picion. That night the place was evacuated at eight o'clock, and Col. Gallup was left as rear guard, to remain as long as he could, and when he left to fire the buildings and blow up all the ammunition that had to be abandoned. He did his work, joined the retreating columns, and on the 3d day of October the whole command safely reached the Ohio river at Greenup. The movement was one of the most extraordinary of the whole war. The Ken- tueky regiments in it were the 3d, 14th, 22d and 19th Ky. Infantry, Mundy's cavalry, and Patterson's engineers.
The 14th proceeded to Louisville, and from thence marched to Danville. It remained in that section of the state part of the summer, being commanded by Col. John C. Cochran. In the organization of the Department of the Ohio, August 31, 1863, four companies were at Mt. Sterling, under Maj. Robt. T. Williams, being in Maltby's brigade, Boyle's division.
In November the regiment was assigned to duty in the vastern part of Kentucky, being commanded then by Col.
27
418
Union Regiments of Kentucky.
Gallup. In December a portion of the regiment was un- der command of Lieut. Col. Orlando Brown, with a force commanded by Col. Gallup; and another portion was with Col. H. C. Lilly, under Gen. Garrard, in the district of Somerset.
In January, 1864, a portion of the 14th re-enlisted in the veteran organization.
February 15, 1864, the 14th and 39th Ky., under Col. ' Gallup, captured Col. Ferguson at Laurel Creek Gap, and Col. Gallup, in his report, compliments Capt. John C. Collins and Capt. Wm. I. Bartram of the 14th. April 13th, the 14th was in a sharp fight at Puncheon creek, Magoffin county. April 15th, it fought at Piketon; April 16th, it was at Louisa, and May 9th in a skirmish at Pound Gap. At that time it was ordered to the front to join Gen. Sherman's army in Georgia. Proceeding by rail it was at Cass Station, Ga., May 23d, and at Burnt Hickory, May 24th. In the organization of Sherman's army the 14th was coinmanded by Col. Gallup, in Strick- land's brigade, Hascall's division, 23d Army Corps. June 2d, in a fight near Pumpkin Vine creek, Capt. Patrick was killed, whom Gen. Hascall, in his official report, calls "a most brave and gallant officer."
In June the 14th was assigned to the very hazardous duty of holding the enemy in check while the other troops threw up defenses, which duty it most gallantly per- formed. Gen. Schofield makes the following mention of it in his report: "On the 22d of June it was discovered that the enemy was advancing in force; our troops were therefore ordered to intrench the position they held as rapidly as possible, while the 14th Ky., of Gen. Hascall's division, was ordered to hold the enemy in check. This gallant regiment detained the enemy one and a half hours, and only retired to the main line when ordered to do so, contesting stubbornly every foot of ground." The enemy then attacked the intrenched line and was re- pulsed.
The 14th was engaged in all the movements of the At. lanta campaign, skirmishing, fighting, charging lines, de- fending positions, during the entire summer. Col. Gal- lup says, in his official report: "Since the 22d dar of June my regiment had participated in all the labor, marches, engagements and skirmishes of the 3d Brigade, 2d Division, 23d Army Corps."
Col. Strickland, in his report of the campaign, says the regiments of his brigade and their officers, to wit: 14th Ky., Col. Gallup; 27th Ky., Col. Ward; 20th Ky., Col. Waller, all deserve the highest praise that can be be-
a
419
Fourteenth Kentucky Infantry.
stowed by language for their prompt, energetic, skillful and gallant conduct at all times and places through the campaign. He also speaks in high praise of Lieut. Col. Brown; Maj. R. M. Thomas, and Lieutenants T. D. Marcum and Geo. B. Patton, of the 14th.
The casualties of this faithful and gallant regiment in the Atlanta campaign were, one hundred and fifty-seven killed and wounded, including eight commissioned officers. It remained with Sherman's army until Novem- ber, 1864. At that time Gov. Bramlette requested that it be returned to Kentucky. Gen. Schofield assented and on the 15th of November it was assigned to the First Mili- tary District of Kentucky. December 5th it was at Bowl- ing Green and December 31st at Louisa. It remained on duty in that section during the remainder of its service, engaged in protecting the country at various points along the Virginia line. It was mustered out September 15, 1865, at Louisville, having been in service nearly four full years and achieved a splendid reputation for efficiency.
Maj. Burchett of the 14th was appointed United States marshal for Kentucky April 3, 1889, by President Harrison, and he added to his repu- tation as a gallant soldier the further distinction of a most admirable civil officer.
Col. John C. Cochran tendered his resignation January 8, 1863, which was indorsed by Gen. A. Baird, as follows: "I earnestly recommend the acceptance of Col. Cochran's resignation. He has served well and faithfully and has good grounds for asking to retire." His resignation was accepted with the following indorsement: "Resignation accepted January, 1863, commanding brigade and relieved from duty January 16, 1963.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.