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CAPTAIN-James H. Hudspeth. 1st LIEUT .- William A. Sasseen. 2d LIEUTS .- Richard L. Boulware. William D. Crain. SERGTS .- Jas. .E. Maxwell, Joseph H. Sawyer. William S. Bolivar, Woodford A. Mat- lock, James E. Belcher, William R. Ferguson. William E. Gaston. Boling H. Felts. CORPLS .- James M. Woodward. David W. Bolivar, William B. Turner, William M. Stokes, Armstead R. Ellis, William A. Baird, Wil- liam B. Woodward. William H. Woodward, Balus L. Crain. BUGLER -Marcellus R. Fuller. FARRIERS-Augustus Chandlier, Levi D. Van- trus. SADDLER -- John L. Sawyer. WAGONER-Geo. V. Marshall.
PRIVATES-Robert J. Allison. William T. Ashby, John H. Anderson, Samuel P. Anderson, John F. Brooks, Alfred Barrow, David M. Brow- ing. John B. Belcher, William F. Barrow, Monroe N. Belcher. Tholeminh R. Boley. George W. Coalman. Little B. Coalman, Woodlief M. Chand- ler, William B. Chandler, H. A. Cropper. Nathaniel D. Doors. George "H. Danks. William B. Donney, John P. Gibson, Thomas B. Galloway. William E. Gorham, Henry B. Givens. Francis R. Gill, William Good- win, Henry Gerill, Richard V. Gant. Joseph Hendricks. James Hoskins. Wiley J. Hendricks, Joseph W. Henderson, Thomas B. Jamerson. James James. John Kettle, Elijah N. Mansfield. Overton B. Mallory, Alfred M. McWhirter, James J. McWhirter, Louis M. McMillen, Michael B. Maben, Cyrus A. Maben, Hiram B. McLamon. David J. McLamon. George W. Murphy. Elisha Morten, William J. Neill. Elisha C. Neel, Luther B Orange, Joseph G. Orange. Samuel A. Orange, Robert A. Parks, Melville T. Parks, Hiram A. Pogue. John W. Sawyer, Christian Swaggot, Finis W. Sherrod, James A. Sawyer, Goodwin Smith, John R. Trail, James HI Webb, Jefferson Whitworth. Leonard Wilson, Patrick Moon. Cyrus G. Mansfield. Thomas C. Sawyer, James M. Felts. Chapman Brooks, Jas.
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P. W. Barrow, Marion D. Fortner, Bird Goswick, John C. Henderson, William B. Johnson. David P. Marshall, Stephen H. Mckinney, Loyd B. Martin. James Row, Green Smith. William H. Keel, Samuel H. Smith.
Company "L."
CAPTAINS-Elisha Owens, Robert V. Gunter. Ist LIEUT .- Samuel Talley. 2d LIEUTS .- Jos. S. Richards, Edward C. Spiceland. SERGTS. -James Russell. Thomas C. Summers, William M. Rawson, James Cuit- unger, James W. James, John S. Richardson, Durritt H. Thomas, Alex- ander Joyce. CORPLS .- John C. Hudson, William Bland. William L. Hutchison, Isaac Cooper. John Jones, Richard S. Ellis, Thomas C. Thomas, Francis M. Oakley. BUGLER-William H. Summers. FAR- RIERS-James Atwood, Philip H. Kirby. SADDLER - Thomas J. Green. WAGONER -- Robert W. Hutchison.
PRIVATES-Joseph Ahart, Green W. Ahart, Richard Bell. James Bell, William A. Bogard, George W. Boswell, Thomas H. Burgess, Chas. H. Cookindirfer, George W. Curtinger. Thomas J. Cameron, James H. Cameron. William E. Can, Helllamy Coyle, Isaac Compton. Gibson Compton, Isaac Dobson, Lee E. Duncan, Joseph Elliston, Chas. Geuge, John Gordon, Henry Haydin, Martin B. Hutchison, Joseph Hickerson, Charles C. Hickerson, James E. Hodge, Taylor Hamer, Todd H. Hag- gard, Lewis N. Jordan, James H. Jones, Henry F. Jennings, Martin V. Joyce, Marcus A. L. Kirby, William Lemons, Benjamin A. Long, John Lowry, George W. Lambut, Gadric D. Micherson, Gregory H. Micherson, John Martin, Lofton H. Mitchell. William H. McDonald, Warren Mc- Daniel, Owen L. Oakley. John L. Oldham, Wm. Parkham. Mathew M. Puckett, Francis M. Potter, William W. Redford, James H. Richardson, James W. Richardson, Walter Richardson, George F. Richards, John W. Stone, Henry Staughter, Edwin R. Simons, John F. Thompson, Henry Trent, Charles U. Thirp. Thomas Wooly, George W. Young, John H. Howard, William Pan, James W. Ross, James L. Trevathan, Joseph W. Watson, James R. Watson, John T. Adams, Kendrick S. Cash, John Crass. Lander H. Coffy. John B. Dicks, Stevens W. Haydon, Wm. T. Harvey, George W. Sonnet, George W. Sandford, Charles P. Warden, William H. Clark. Lafayette Courtney, Levi D. Martin, John H. Thirp.
Company "M."
CAPTAINS-John D. Belden, Daniel S. Parker. 1st LIEUTS .- John R. Curry, Moses Kinnett. 2d LIEUTS .- Logan S. McWhorton, Philip T. Hardwick, George Dameron. SUP. 2d LIEUT .- John Brown. SERGTS .- William D. Shannon, James M. Williams, Gideon Burton, David M. Murphy, Stephen M. Evans, Elias Baker, Isaac N. Beard. Jno. T. Wheeler. CORPLS .- Washington M. Brown. James W. Bell, Elihu G. Grinstead. Frederick Claycomb, Clem. K. H. Cochran, Ephraim Hat- field, James F. Gay, Thomas J. Averitt. FARRIERS-Robert A. Hos- kins. James Propes. SADDLER-Claybourne Ricketts. WAGONER- James H. Palmer.
PRIVATES-Benjamin F. Allen, Steele Browne, James D. Brown, John Brown, Daniel Brown, George A. Baker, Stewart Baldock. An- drew J. Bryant, Samuel Bryant, Alexander Bryant, John Bryant, Chat- fin Barlow, George B. Bunch. George W. Cox, Isham Cochran, George W. Cochran, James H. Childers, Samuel J. Curry, James Copley, Wil- lam B. Cox, William A. Curry, Edward Conner, James F. Conner. Jas. H. Claycomb, Abraham Christ, Samuel Dameron, John W. Davidson, James Duncan, Lewis C. Evans, Drury S. Evans, Isham Edwards, Wil- liam B. Evans. Madison Floyd, Levi S. Floyd. James T. Fitchpatrick. George Gailbeon, William W. C. Goatlay, Thomas J. Gillen. Hugh K. Hughes, John L. Hicks. Birdin Isaac, Samuel King, William Lee, Al- bert Lanham, Ancil Lanham, Truman Mallory. Richard L. Malling, Francis M. Mallory, Charles C. Mercer, George Meridith, James M. Mar- tin. Jacob Penticuff, Henderson T. Robinson, Francis C. Rowe. Selestial Raney, James Raney, Redinand Robinson, John J. C. Sinder, Duly Sin- clair, John T. Shoemaker, Wm. A. Tunget, Pleasant Wilson, John Wright. Thomas L. Wright. Edmund M. Wells, James A. Wilson, John Wheeler, James Walker. Daniel B. Bryant, Robert E. Wilson, David Bright, Alexander Crum. David R. Claycomb, Ira V. Graves, Rob. A. Jones, William King. John C. Mayfield. 'Wm. Overshine. Daniel Davis. Juhus Rucker.
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Ninth Kentucky Cavalry.
( PREPARED BY COL. RICHARD T. JACOB.)
About the 27th of July, 1862; Richard T. JJacob issued a call to raise one regiment of cavalry for twelve months. Two others being called for the same time for the same period, to assemble the first week in August, 1862. In a week's time Gen. Finnell, adjutant-general, in- formed him that if reports were true the regiment was full and overflowing. The news was true. Four hun- dred and forty-eight, or one battalion, came in one day under Geo. W. Rue, who afterward was made major. The regiment was formed into companies, nearly a thousand horses shod, and on the night of the 22d of August the officers and men were sworn in; uniforms given, with guns and provisions. Richard T. Jacob, colonel, with Jno. Boyle, lieutenant-colonel; Geo. W. Rue, I. T. Farris and W. C. Moreau, majors. The other officers and men will be named in another place. Thus in less than three weeks a regiment of 1,244 officers and men were raised and equipped, and two battalions started to where the enemy was to come into the state. Col. Jacob took the balance to Lexington, Ky., to obtain horses. On the 30th two of these companies, acting as escort to Gen. Nelson, on seven days from formation, were in a great battle and behaved well. The balance made a forced march from Crab Orchard neighborhood, to aid in the _ fight. The battle was fought and lost to the Union be- fore they came up, and they had to retreat all that night and the next day until nine at night. The regiment was placed in ambuscade on the Richmond road; ordered to retreat at 10 o'clock a. m .; marched the balance of night. and the retreat was kept up until they got past Shelby- ville, when Col. Jacob was ordered to make a dash with his command and flank Shelbyville, and try to destroy the Confederate troops there, whilst the 9th Penn. Cav- alry charged on the pike. As it was a very dry time the dust betrayed the movement, and the Confederates fled with only a few taken prisoners. The regiment did in- cessant scouting night and day around the city. Lieut. I. (. Brent made the first capture of seventeen men. About the first of October they marched with Gen. Buell to meet the enemy. The next day Col. Jacob was or- dered to divide his regiment, one-half to go with him to report to Gen. Sill, at Shelbyville; Lieut .- Col. Boyle to rommand the other half and keep with the main army.
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Next day, nearly a half of Col. Jacob's force being sent on a scout, he, with the balance, marched past the in- fantry and ordered to charge the enemy, who first had been driven from shelter by skirmishers from the in- fantry. Finding that he was fast approaching a far larger force, with another as large starting down a ravine to crush him between the two, his men were ordered to reach a certain point before the enemy, and then turn and fight. This was done, men formed and poured a heavy fire into the enemy, who became panic stricken and fled to Frankfort, and carried the Hawes government, which had just been inaugurated, with all the concourse, with it. We rallied at least a mile in front of the infantry and gained their highest enconiums, which was a great triumph, as we had been most outrageously blackguarded as we past them in the morning. Considering these men, this being the 4th of October, and they mustered in on the 22d of August-not quite six weeks-it showed up well for the men. As undisciplined troops once started in a run rarely stop, Col. Scott, commanding the Con- federato brigade, was said to have been in a very bad humor at his command, and said: "I thought Jacob's men were only six-weeks' men." "They are good two- year men as I want to meet," was said to have been his remark. As the sun was about setting, on the 6th of Oc- tober, 1862, Gen. Sill's command reached the tops of the hill at Frankfort, and keeping concealed, with field glasses watched what was going on in the city. Scott's cavalry was lying down holding their horses. Gen. Sill ordered a cannon fired over the city commanding the arsenal hill. It had a magical effect; in an instant every man was on his feet. Another shot, they were on their horses and at full speed retreating. The shots had an- other effect. Every window flow up and thousands of flags of our country fluttered to the breeze. It was a royal welcome that went straight to our hearts. As planks in the bridge were torn up, we had to go many miles to a ford. Our friends met us most enthusiastic- ally. That night we watched all night, as we under- stood the enemy would attack us in large numbers, and most of our forces on the other side. Next day, October 7th, Capt. Hardin, an able and gallant officer, was sent out with one or two companies to scout on the Lexington pike. The captain was enthusiastic over the behavior of his men, who attacked with great impetuosity, the enemy going away until a party in ambush suddenly rose from behind a stone wall. Then, instead of running, the men instantly wheeled into line, rode up to the wall and
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fired, which sent the ambuscaders to flight at once. We were told after by prisoners that Col. Scott, noticing this headlong impetuosity of the men, determined to punish their valor, which turned his plan into a rout.
Col. Jacob had advised his officers and men to watch every point before going into battle, and then when they attacked to do it with the utmost impetuosity, never drawing the rein until one side of the other gave way, and generally the attacking party would be successful. A lieutenant was reported to have said to Gen. Cleburne: "General, we met Jacob's men." "You whipped them, of course?" "No, the d -- fellows kept a-coming, and I could not hold my men." I think it was this great care before the battle and then the impetuous rush that made the regiment lose but few killed, though many were wounded. The morning of the Sth of October we marched early; got some valuable news from a Miss Draffin, of Anderson county, that Gen. Kirby Smith was lying in wait for us with 30,000 men and 64 pieces of artillery. We drove in the pickets soon after leaving them, found news true and Gen. Sill decided to turn to the right and get to the Salt river hills and let Smith do the attacking. Before this could be done the enemy's cavalry force were reported. Col. Jacob was ordered to attack them. Hc dispersed them with artillery; ordered to go up the road about a mile; did so, and was furiously attacked. After a desperate fight Col. Jacob and many others wounded. In a hand-to-hand fight Col. Alston was wounded by Col. .Jacob. Col. Stone, of an Ohio regiment, said of the fight: "I went through the war, and was in many battles, but I never saw a more desperate fight, and, in proportion to numbers, a greater loss." Next day Gen. Smith at- tacked Gen. Sill in the Salt river hills, and was badly defeated. It is a fact that ought to be noted here, that Capt. Robert Cochran, of Shelby, with his company of guards, was with the 9th Cavalry in all the operations just mentioned.
On the 4th day of March Col. Jacob was ordered by Gen. Sill to Louisville, on account of his wounds. Al this place it may not be inopportune to state the feeling in regard to the emancipation proclamation. It caused a good deal of talk at first, but Col. Jacob told the officers and men that the talk must stop; that we were in to fight and not to talk; that it was for the administration to de- cide the policy. That was the last of it; it never troubled more. Col. John Boyle, with the other half of the regi- ment, were at the great battle of Perryville. The com- ยท mand behaved well. After the battle the regiment cap-
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tured 1,650 prisoners. Maj. Rue was on his native heath, and it did him good to go like a cyclone and capture the rebels. The reunited regiment, now under control of Col. Boyle, was sent to the Cumberland river, and many were the scraps they had with Champ Ferguson and others. At the end of the year they had many encounters with John Morgan and command, then in the state, and aided to drive him out of the state. It is impossible to do justice and to name the innumerable conflicts the command had up to this date. On the 14th of January, 1863, Col. Jacob arrived in camp and was given a heart- felt ovation. The command was encamped from that time to April about Lebanon, scouting all the time. Capt. William Edwards dashed through Danville, driv- ing the enemy through its streets, and came back safely twenty-eight miles. They then, under Gen. Manson, went in pursuit of Gen. Pegram. He had been whipped. at Dutton's Hill before they got up. Col. Jacob was then ordered to Burksville, in command of his regiment and 20th Mich. and section of artillery, to capture a party of Confederates at Burksville. No Confederates there to capture. Then ordered to mouth of Greasy creek, in Rus- sell county. Went to Monticello to aid Gen. Carter. The enemy driven out, he went back to Greasy creek. On the 10th of May, with 575, he was attacked by all of Mor- gan's command. He had just ordered about 300 men to charge, and would have captured two regiments, who had got out of ammunition, when the overwhelming forces of Morgan rushed on them. The enemy rushed and tried to outflank, but Col. Jacob ordered the artillerist, a splendid man from Indiana, to break the column of at- tack, if possible, and to take all of his, time to load and fire, and he would use the field glass and tell him where to shoot. The enemy thought we had two guns. They fired 22 times in 45 minutes, so said an officer across the river, who timed it. Then came the critical moment.
The position of the gun was no longer tenable. He could not take all of his men, because they would, all of them, be overtaken in the bottom and captured. 'He left the reserve, who were fresh, to hold the position and took the tired fighting force to the river. Col. Holman came and said that a flag of truce was in demanding uncondi- tional surrender. His answer was: "Tell Morgan to come and take him; that he did not belong to the sur- rendering dogs." Holman changed it to "as long as a shot is left in the locker." Col. Jacob told him to put in as he pleased, so it meant no surrender until a desperate fight took place, in which he expected to be successful. He
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then ordered Col. Holman to retire with the balance as soon as he could successfully. Finding the flag of truce gone they left three pickets as a sacrifice and got back safely. The three, finding themselves alone, fired and jumped over the hills and escaped. Not a single man lost, except on the battlefield. Gen. Morgan went to Monticello that night, and to Tennessee. Lieut .- Col. Boyle, Holman and all the officers and men behaved splendidly. Thus was the expedition to invade the state thwarted. The command ordered back to Lebanon, where Col. Jacob was placed in command by Gen. Man- son. This gave him the 2d, 8th, 17th and 20th Mich. regi- ments and the N. Y. Highlanders' fine infantry, and 9th, 11th and 12th Ky. Cavalry. Having plenty of cavalry with the infantry as a nucleus he scouted the roads inces- santly every day, They were fighting all the time and never lost a man, either wounded, killed or taken pris- oner, whilst the enemy lost all the time. The secret was having the cavalry, he sent out such strong force that it overwhelmed every force the enemy could present. That was from May 15th to June 15th, when he was superseded by Brig .- Gen. E. II. Hobson, a gallant and noble officer.
On the 20th of June we were ordered to get ready to go to Tompkinsville. If Gen. Hobson had had his way we would have stayed where we were, and Morgan would never have gotten across the Cumberland. He partly obeyed his orders and partly not. He kept his infantry at Crossroads and moved rapidly with his cavalry to Tompkinsville. Here, Gen. Judah coming up, refused the general a wish to attack Adam Johnson at "Turkey's Bend," who was there crossing the flooded Cumberland. Johnson told Gen. Hobson afterward that he (Hob- son) would have ruined him. Then ordered to Mar- rowbone creek, nine miles to Burksville, and, picking up his infantry at the Crossroads, got to Marrowbone about dark. In the meantime, Morgan having no opposition, had safely crossed the Cumberland river, then at flood height. Next morning, 2d day of July, Capt. Tom Hardin was sent out with about 160 men to scout toward Burks- ville to get news of the enemy. After nearly running into the ambuscade they had to retreat, with Gen. Mor- gan at the head with over a thousand men in pursuit. The gallant little band, with their brave, capable cap- tain, Tom Hardin, made a most gallant running fight of eight miles. It was a desperate hand-to-hand fight with clubbed guns, pistols, etc .; once a "regular hoedown," so a Confederate officer said afterward, when a Confederate and Federal on horses, coming together and throwing
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both off with their weapons lost, took it the old fighting way, both powerful men and equally placed. At last a pistol placed at the head of the 9th Ky. man, he surrend- ered. It would take many pages to tell of the desper- ate and gallant fight on the way back. They shot after surrender four men, three of whom died from their wounds. This would have made a tragedy if the com- mands had gotten together at once. Col. Jacob, with some 80 men, met the retreating men and kept the enemy at bay until the infantry could get up and the artillery opened. Thus the 9th had the last fight with Morgan, at the start of the expedition. We were started to pursue Morgan with a hundred wagons. Gen. Hobson had the good sense to drop them at Greensburg and pushed ou to Lebanon, where he was placed in command by Gen. Burnside. The gallant Col. Charles Hanson, a most gal- lant officer, the brother of Roger, made a noble fight . against Morgan, and only surrendered when forced by the depot being burned.
Morgan turned toward the Ohio river, and crossed the river into Indiana. We had to wait until boats were sent from Louisville. We got across in the night, after losing twenty-four hours, and giving Morgan about forty- eight ahead. The long, tiresome marches through Indi- ana and Ohio, with the thousands of noble women of those states singing the war songs and feeding us; the horses being fed by the shocks of wheat in the fields-a new kind of threshing machine-not much to the satis- faction of the farmers. I will give one instance of pluck and endurance. A young man, Posey Buckley, nephew of the Col. Harvey Buckley, came up one morning and said to Col. Jacob: "Colonel, my horse has broken down; I am afoot." "Do the best you can, Posey." The same question and answer, until Posey came up and said: "See my mount, colonel?" It was a little mule. He then got a horse, and was in at the death. We had the disadvant- age of Morgan getting the pick of the horses, and we had the refuse and Morgan's broken down ones, that could not be used at all. Notwithstanding this, we steadily gained on them and lessened the gap materially. We rode nearly all one night, then all day and night, and were in sound of the cannon of those at the river. Men and horses gained new life, and soon we were engaged with the enemy, thus having the honor of the last fight at Mar- rowbone, when in Kentucky, and first fight when we overtook them in Ohio. We had a desperate fight for a while, and Col. Jacob was afraid that his men would get beyond his control; remembering their murdered com-
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rades, he impulsively galloped in and called to the Con federates to surrender or he could not save them. They obeyed him, and thus the enemy turned out well, but they had had time to think. We captured about 150 meu, wounded a good many, and, I have no doubt, killed quite a number. Col. Wolford ordered a charge of the 1st Ky. and Sth Ky., and forced many to surrender. That night we rested, and had a sixty-mile running fight next day. a wonderful record for both sides, after so long and tire- some chase. We then had a fight, and a flag of truce came in and demanded terms of surrender. Gen. Shack- elford said unconditionally. They agreed to it, and sur rendered with 1,050 men and officers, but without Mor- gan, who, with some hundreds of men, galloped away whilst the conference was going on. The next day Gen. Shackelford and Col. Wolford beat up for recruits to pur- sue. Against Col. Jacob's will he was left to take charge of the prisoners. He wanted to go in pursuit, but at the earnest wish of Col. Wolford, who said the prisoners might be maltreated, and he wished I would stay. He had to obey orders, of course, but willingly did so, when he thought he might be of service to the unfortunate. In a few days the prisoners were shipped to Cincinnati, and Col. Jacob stopped off to meet Gen. Hobson at Gallipolis, and he ordered him to take command and ship everything to Cincinnati, soldiers, stores, etc. After this he joined them at Cincinnati.
I will now take up a company of the 9th, under Capt. Neal, a gallant and excellent officer, who, for some reason, had been left at the landing on the Ohio river, opposite Brandenburg. Maj. Geo. W. Rue, by permission, had leave, on account of sickness, to stay at a farm house near Columbia. He had to flee when Morgan came in, and had great difficulty to escape. He reported to Gen. Burnside and asked to be sent to Col. Jacob. The general said that was impossible; that there was a company of the 9th, under Capt. Neal; to take them and all the men of that regiment, and others, mount them on fresh horses and I will send you on cars to get ahead of the enemy, and you may be in at the death. This was done, and Maj. Rue did get ahead and had a chase, and the race was between Rue and Morgan to get first to a certain point. Rue got there first and demanded unconditional surrender. Morgan then said he had already surrendered to a captain he had as a prisoner. This did not go down with Rue, who was too old a campaigner to swallow such chaff. He informed them that he would fire into them if he did not surrender
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at once. This they accepted, and Maj. Rue, held them until Gen. Shackelford came up in about an hour. I was told that some of the enemy asked what command they belonged to, and when told the 9th, they answered d- that regiment, it was everywhere. Thus Maj. Rue, the 9th Ky. company and men of that regiment, and gallant and noble men of Ohio and other regiments, deserved equal praise. The 9th being the only organization got the credit. The others deserved just as much. Col. Jacob was delighted that his tried, faithful and gallant officer Maj. Rue, and the brave, good officers Capt. Neal and Lieut. Jenkins, of the Shelby company, and the brave, noble, patriotic men of the 9th, who were always true, should be in at the death.
Col. JJacob had a presentiment, often expressed, when he organized his regiment, that they would have the prominent part in disorganizing and breaking up that noted band under Gen. Morgan. The regiment's time soon after having expired, it was mustered out. Col. Jacob was forced, by having the misfortune to lose his wife some six months before, not to go into the service again, as his two children were too young to leave alone. He had positively refused to do so until their time was out; he had refused the nomination for lieutenant-gov- ernor, until they said he might stay with his command in the field.
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