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While at Pulaski the term of enlistment of the 9th Ky. expired, and it was ordered to Kentucky to be mustered out; at that time Gen. Beatty, under whom the 9th had served so long, gave the following parting words:
Pulaski, Tenn., November 22, 1864.
To the Officers and Soldiers of the 9th Ky. Volunteers:
The general commanding the brigade avails himself of this oppor- tunity to thank you for the manner in which you have at all times performed your duties as soldiers. For your good conduct, whether in your bivouac. on the march, or on the battlefield, he expresses his heart- felt thanks. While he is loath to lose you as comrades in the great cause for which we are battling, he feels that you have faithfully filled the contract made with your government three years ago, and is glad to see you now enjoy that pleasure, so well merited, of returning once more to your friends at home. He congratulates you on establishing a reputa- tion for your regiment that is surpassed by none in service; your record is without a blemish. For evidence of your gallantry you can refer with pride to any of the many battles in which you have been engaged. For no act of yours during the campaign of three years have you cause to regret; on no battlefield have you ever betrayed that great confidence reposed in you as a regiment. You have done honor to yourselves, honor to your state, and nobly have you defended the great cause for which three years ago you pledged your all. Those of you who are left can now go to your homes with the satisfaction of knowing that you have done your whole duty. But while congratulating you who are about to return to your friends at home, we must not forget the gallant dead whom you have left on many a crimsoned field, and who, by their deeds of noble daring, assisted you in making your regiment the pride of your state. Go to their friends, when you arrive at home, and carry to them the sincere sympathy of this brigade, and accept the congratulations and well wishes of all for yourselves.
The regiment was mustered out at Louisville, Decem- ber, 1864.
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Field and Staff.
COLONELS-Benjamin C. Grider, George H. Cram. LIEUT. COLS. -- Allen J. Roark, John H. Grider, Chesley D. Bailey. MAJORS-William J. Henson, William Starling. ADJT .- John H. Shepherd. Q. MASTERS -- Benjamin S. Coffey, Francis M. Cummings, Frank White. SURGS .- James R. Duncan, Thomas R. W. Jeffray. ASST. SURGS .- John A. Lindsay, John Chamberlain. CHAPLAIN-James C. Rush. SERGT. MAJS .- Montgomery E. Oliphant, John W. Lucas, John B. Carver. John W. Worley. COM. SERGTS .- Thomas H. Williams, Levi J. Span. George F. Train, Frederick Carpenter. Q. M. SERGTS .- William T. Neal, Elijah A. Purcell. HOSP. STEWARDS-Montraville Waddle, Vachal M. Clark.
Company "A."
CAPTAINS-John R. Wheat, Henry F. Leggitt. 1st LIEUTS .- Francis M. Stone, John W. Lucas. Rufus Somerby, William H. Pipkin, R. R. W. Gillenwaters. 2d LIEUTS .- Doctor H. Roark, Andrew J. Pipkin, William T. Barton. SERGTS .- John B. Carver, Leonard W. Massey, Lafayette L. Gatewood, William Keith, M. Smith Pipkin, Joseph Benedict. CORPLS .- Mathew Stinson, Alfred Cook, Harvey Johnson. John Marsh, Francis M. Harwood, Julien O. Bradley, John T. Lee, Bishop E. Scott. Jesse Parker, James W. Short, George N. Faulkner.
PRIVATES-George W. Campbell, William S. Dotson, Isaac N. Evans, William P. Gibson, Simpson S. Gunn, Timothy H. Hagan, John C. Howard, William Kennedy, Isaac N. Marsh, David F. Martin, Orange D. Pitchford, James M. Russell. Johnson Roark, Lamack Simmons, Jr., William Siddons, Joseph M. Stinson. Joseph Stinson, John H. Short, Richard Temple, Andrew J. Taylor. John J. Willis, Jr., Samuel White. James A. Waller, William W. Wilson, Benjamin Butram, Harrison B. Bronner, Harmon C. Bishop. Jacob B. Butram, John B. Benedict, Jos. Cook, John T. Creek, Henry M. Cook, Bailey P. Casby, William H. Faulkner. Samuel F. Harrison, Lycurgus Johnson, John W. Jones. Andrew D. Johnson. William G. Lancaster, Gallman G. Meader, Robt. J. Pare, William C. Pipkin, Johnson Poe, Reuben L. Ragland, Asa W. Roark, George P. Stone, David M. Shaw, Thomas L. Wolten. John Willis, Sr., James Kennady, Andrew J. Massey, William Marsh, Pleasant H. Mader. Henry C. Marony, Charles H. Marsh, Alvin Stinson, James S. Turner, Joel M. Toner, John W. Austin, Marion Claiborne, William W. Creek, Benjamin F. Driver, Henry Jenkins, John Keith, Josiah R. King, John Lane, Bishop L. MeIntire. Lewis J. Meader, William D. Maxie. William Minix, Chasteen A. Massey, Austin Poe, William F. M. Por. Lewis R. Pipkin, Daniel S. Pipkin. John J. Shaw, Roland Stinson. An- drew B. Shaver. James H. Veach. Daniel W. Williams, William B. Carver, Richard B. Freeman, Robert Hagan, Joseph Bandy, Winston Candler, Lebourn C. Marriel, Graner Owens, William F. Thornton.
Company "B."
CAPTAINS-William T. Bryan, Silas Clark. 1st LIEUTS .- Warner Underwood, Benjamin M. Johnson. Turner Hestand, Wm. M. Woodcock. 2d LIEUT .- Anderson Smith. SERGTS .- Jonathan B. Wilson, William B. Roddy. Riley Hudson. James M. Holland, James M. Crabtree, Joh !! W. Hinson. CORPLS .- Abraham S. Baxter, Walter M. Clarke. Isaac Maines. Columbus Massey, Calvin M. Smith, Jas. T. Walden, William C. Woodard, Paschal A. Wakefield. John T. Tade. WAGONER-Samuel Steel.
PRIVATES-David Almany, William A. Barton, Eli Barton. David Baxter, James M. Clarke, James Cross, Abraham Cross, George W. Carter. Andrew Carter, Willis T. Combs, William W. Chitwood. Samuel Garner. Levi Grissone, Wiley Grissone, Alfred Hammer, Hiram C. Ham- mer. Jesse J. Jackson. James J. Johnson, Andrew J. Moss. Daniel B. Pennington, Joseph Rush. Thomas Rush, Eli Rhoton, Robert Speakman. William W. Smith. Caleb W. Short. Austin Spear, William Sprowl. John Salsbury. William R. Speer, George W. Speer, Benjamin H. Waddle. John Almany, Elbert H. Baxter, Henry Baxter, Isaac Cross. Allen C. Denhan. William J. Emimert, John H. Gass, Jerret H. Hestand, Isaac Hix. Will-
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lam H. Hinley, James F. Rhoton, Lorenzo D. Sheffield, Henry T. Smith. Hiram C. Sartin, Benjamin G. Thompson, Simpson Thompson, John M. White, John B. Cornwell, David C. Dixon, Alexander Denham, Philip H. Emmert, Johnson Estep, Samuel A. Gettings, Daniel Gully, William H. Massey, Nicholas H. Pennington, Gilbert H. Wakefield, Rawdon Woods, Felton Dixon, William C. Gass, John A. Jackson, John McAlpin, George W. Marshall, Jeremiah Rush, Thomas Spear, Jefferson G. Sartin, Jesse Thompson, Jacob A. Wilburn, Henry H. Waggoner, Andrew Bray, Alex- ander W. Short, James I. Tooley, William Blair, John Eypock, James Head, Thomas J. Jenkins, William W. Keys, Philip Moore, John Strong, William M. Strong, Richard Welch.
Company " C."
CAPTAINS-Gilbert M. Mulligan, William Starling, Theodore F. Heeter. 1st LIEUTS .- Jesse Howell, Charles R. Tate, Ancil B. Mayhew. 2d LIEUTS .- Toliver Moore, David W. Pope. SERGTS .- Joseph L. Anderson, Moses Roark, William H. Miller, Solomon Lancaster, Lemuel E. Johnston, Joseph H. Meader, Daniel Huntsman, Francis M. Ballew, Collum Slayton. William Spears, Robert D. Napier, John J. Ragland, William Holland. CORPLS .- George W. Mitchell, Christopher C. Austin, William A. Mansfield, Isaac I. Bridgeman, William B. Clark, Emery A. Mayhew, James Stewart, John B. Martin, Emory B. Hinton, Isaac R. Stewart, Lewis W. Meader, James W. Mayhew.
PRIVATES -- Wm. T. Bradley, Joseph W. Bandy, George D. Bradley, David C. Chandler, Henry V. Dalton, Bluford M. Fishburn, John Gam- mon, James H. Gammon, Charles L. Henson, Bradford Howell, John W. B. Huntsman, James Lancaster, William T. Morgan, Henry A. Mayhew, George T. Mayhew. William C. Mitchell, George W. Mathews, William F. Parker, William F. Richards, Elija S. Tinsley, Howison F. Wygle, Nathan B. Woodcock, Jasper N. Brown, Lee W. Bratton, Mathew N. Dearing, William Dillard, John M. Douglas, William Goad, John Goad, Robert N. Howell, Edward W. Howell, James D. Howell, Henry M. Huntsman, Rolley Howell, Enoch T. Johnston, Asberry W. Keen, James N. King, George Mitchell, Benjamin T. Mitchell. John F. Strausbury, Daniel W. Speers, William R. Speers, Daniel Strausbury, Washington F. Wolf, Stephen D. Wolf, William H. Walden, Reuben B. Brown, Robert A. Dobbs, William A. Johnson, Henry J. Kelley, Lorenzo D. Massey, Samuel Minix, Joseph B. Oliphant, James L. Sykes, Jeremiah B. Tinsley, James B. Temple. Willis G. Weems, Yancy D. Bandy, Isham N. Bradly. Abram N. Bridgeman, Abram Cole, Jr .. Joel T. Clayborn, Joseph H. Clayborn, Meader Holland, William R. Jones, Jacob R. Jones, Robert A. Jones, George W. Lancaster. Solomon D. Lyles, Owen M. McGuire, James W. Oliphant, William M. Simpson, Benj. T. H. Alexander, William Kirk- land, Levi Tinsley, Robert II. Perdue, Robert A. Stewart.
Company "D."
CAPTAIN-Lafayette Harling. 1st LIEUTS .-- Wiley 1. Whitley. Algernon S. Leggitt, James Goad, William H. Morrow. 2d LIEUTEN- ANTS-William M. Gregory, Pleasant Chitwood. SERGTS .- George McKinnis, Samuel Jones, Marcus D. L. York, Dan C. Smith, Samuel A. Moore, Jasper Hays, Joseph P. Keith, Charles H. Smith. COR- PORALS-John Smith, Ephraim T. Raglan, Mexico Sanders, George Jenkins, Jefferson C. Whitley, King Robinson. James K. Heflin, William Gully, Hiram Gist. William Purcell, John Mitchell ..
PRIVATES-Jeremiah Beam, Thomas M. Beam, John H. Bell, Arvill S. Bryant, William C. Canada, William B. Creacy, Jones Goisham, James Horp, Henry Hunter, Elihu H. Jenkins, Baily P. Jenkins, Anthony C. Moss, Alvin H. Morrow, Henry Robinson, King Robinson, 2d. James M. Whitley. Kinchen Whitley, Noah B. Whitley, Axum Whitley, William Wonton, Thomas Austin, James Bruce, Andrew J. Bryant. Jesse P. Creecy, Meredith B. Creecy, Joseph B. Gregory, Jackson D. Keasly. Henry Mitchell, Harvey H. Ragland, James M. Tolman, Vincin B. Whitley. John Austin. James Bean, John Borden, William C. Canada. John Hudson, William W. Jenkins, Wolton Kirby, John Y. Borden, Peter Bean, Jr., Peter Bean, Sr., Thomas J. Brice, Nathaniel Berden, William A. Chit-
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wood, Shadrick Chitwood, William Dismany, Henry C. Fagg, John H. Gloore, William Hudson, William B. O. Jackson, Beverly Jones, David Jenkins, Richard Jones, Leonard Jones, Jefferson Jenkins, David S. Law. Sampson Lee, Joshua A. Lancaster, Lemuel J. Leonard, Linzy B. Moss, Wm. M. Robinson, Andrew Mc. Ragland, William R. Wallace, Richard W. Williams, George W. York, Claiborn Borden, Ralston Jenkins, Obediah Leonard, Wm. A. Mitchell, Henry P. Robinson, Meridith Davis, Andrew Davis, Silas J. Grened, William Harp, Green Keer, Harrison Kee, Jasper Kee, Claiborn Kirby, James Moore, John C, York.
Company "E."
CAPTAINS-Archibald S. Chenoweth, Toliver Moore. 1st LIEUTS .- Moses L. Norvell, Isaac N. Chenoweth, John P. Grinstead, Jasper N. Butram. 2d LIEUTS .- Samuel C. Stout, Daniel J. Stout, David Witty. SERGTS .- David H. Butram, George W. Star, Henry H. Buton, Henry B. Tole, George W. Smith, Jacob W. Shufey, William T. Norvill, John : .. Donohoe, William L. Kingry, Andrew J. Star, Leonidas Walker, Virgil A. Jones, CORPLS .- Ira G. Copass, Silas B. Nunnaley, John H. Lawrence, Shelby Butram, Alfred Gibson, John A. Harlin, Dawson B. Elliott, Albert Balldsop, Charles A. Wilson. WAGONER-Philip Moore.
PRIVATES-Wm. D. Arteburn, James H. Barbour, James M. Burge. Joseph Goode, Joel A. Glass, Samuel P. Halle, Jerial M. Hoss, Josley J. Jobe, Wm. Jackson, Joseph D. Jackson, William A. Lyon, James Moses, James H. Pyrant. William B. Ritter, Benjamin Shirley, Stephen W. Walter, William Wells, Obediah L. Adams, Isaac W. Adams, Alfred D. Hodg, Francis M. Huffman, Stacy B. Huffman, Win. H. Kellon, James H. Lawrence, Charles L. Nunnaly, James M. Nunn, Jesse E. Slone, Lemuel T. Williams, William L. Adams, John M. Adams, Robert W. Barbour, Leroy Donahoe, James Grigory, Milton Q. Nunnaly, William D. Alley, Thomas H. Britt, George Balldock, John W. Billingsley, Turner Climer, Sanford P. Curry, John W. Glass, Lewis F. Huffman, Rufus Jobe. Jacob C. Jackson, Wm. T. Kingry, Felix G. Mathews, Henry Moses. Isaac H. Norvell, Benj. F. Nunnaley, James A. Nunnaley, Andrew J. Nunnaley, Theophilus Padjet, James H. Smith, William Smith. C. Thomas Thomas, Samuel T. Vance, William H. Young, Henry Bacon. Emery P. Nunnaley, Joseph Olmnon, Hampton Pyrunt, James J. Willson. Francis M. Bartly, Thomas Burge. Richard Coonts, John J. Copass, Alfred Denton, Russell Eapmon, John W. Jenty, Benj. F. Hughes, Jona- than C. Huffman, Joshua Shufey, Charles A. Willson.
Company "F."
CAPTAINS-Henry C. Martin, John M. Vetter, Riley A. Read. 1st LIEUT .- Robert T. Patton. 2d LIECTS .- William Moore, Fred F. Car- penter, Emery H. Read. SERGTS .- Sidney R. Dearing, Samuel C. Motly, James S. Williams, William E. Webb, Stephen C. Hancock, Cal- vin Duncan, John C. Burton, William H. Cade, Elijah M. Patton, Francis M. Hatter. John W McReynolds. CORPLS .- Wm. H. Shields; John M. Oliver, Young Butler, Dillard P. Hatler, Erich Moody, Robert Trivet. Levi J. Spann, Montgomery E. Oliphant, James R. Lovelace, Benjamin Taylor, Lycurgus J. Morgan, George B. McElroy. WAGONER-James R. Seward.
PRIVATES-Thomas Branson, Robert L. Buchanan, Robert F. Cole- man, Richard Daniel, John G. Graham, David Harris, Henry F. Jack- son, W'm. E. McNeece, William E. Mese. Granson S. Oliver, Ephraim H. Oliphant, Wm. J Prewitt, Jacob W. Robinson, Charles F. Rigesby, Franklin Richards, Robert Webb, James C. Williams, John W. Worley, Moses L. York, David Barrett, Dan'l C. Buchanan, Calvin Bracken, Jas. A. Caldwell, John S. Gunn, Richard Harris, Jasper W. Loafman, Henry C. MeElroy, Calloway H. Mayhew, George W. Oliver, James M. Smith, Harvey S. Turner, Richard W. Williams, Henry Branson, Joshua B. Buchanan, Reuben J. Clarkson, Luther Cary, William Chandler, Elijah C. Griffin, John Manly, William J. Miles, William J. Poe. John A. Shields. Thomas H. Williams. William B. Putram, James B. Clark, William H. Clarkson, Thomas J. Douglass, Joel Hancock, John C. Jackson, Samuel Jones, Edward W. Loafman, Cornelius A. Manley, Harrison Moody,
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Charles D. Mise. Joseph R. U. McElroy, William H. Patton, John W. Riggs, Le P. Robertson, George W. Stovall, William H. Stone, Stephen Sparks, John T. Tabor, Joseph Taylor, S. W. W. T. Williams, Joseph L. Wright, James R. Wilson, Henry C. Carver, William England, Joseph W. Richards, William T. Spann, James Bergman, Jimmerson Cassady, Joseph S. England, Joseph Hearald, James Shields, James M. Tinsley, Samuel L. Williams.
Company "G."
CAPTAINS-Isaac Dickerson, Demetrius B. Coyle, Jas. M. Simmons. 1st LIEUTS .- Henry W. Mayes, Henry W. Jenkins, Thos. W. Batdorf. 2d LIEUTS .- Charles A. McCue, Elijah A. Purcell, Chas. J. Coyle. SERGTS .- Thos. D. Jenkins, Daniel Moore, John H. Jackson, Henry M. Slaughter, Isaac N. Vaughn, William J. Quinn, William B. Bowls, Silas Emberton. CORPLS .- Arnold N. Hall, Solomon Loyd, John M. Vaughn, Henry G. Lewis, George W. Slaughter, James M. Proffitt, William Loyd, John L. Hines, Thomas Houch, John E. Dotson, James L. Jenkins, Thos. E. Arteburn. WAGONER-John Jones.
PRIVATES-James G. Ayers, Abner Akers, John D. Allen, James T. Butram, James L. Butram, Thos. J. W. Butram, Benjamin N. Burnett, William L. Dickerson. Turner G. England, George T. Fraim, James H. Folden, Harry S. Grider, Lucian Gillenwater, John M. Isenberg, James M. D. Jenkins, Cyrus A. Jenkins, Josephus Layne, William S. Lewis, Theodore W. Lewis. Jackson J. Proffitt, Thomas W. Proffitt, William T. Proffitt, Samuel W. Patterson, Thomas M. Simmons, John W. Taylor, Lewis Wheeler, James M. Allen, Smith A. Butram, Nicholas J. Brown, W'm. C. Bunnell, James S. Creek, William J. Derring, Daniel Fox, Har- man Houch, Joseph Jackson, Felix Myers, George W. Proffitt, Daniel Russell, Richard W. Furguson, Henry D. Isenberry, William A. Sim- mons, Joseph T. Turner, William A. Turner, William Allen, William T. Neal, Geo. E. Ward, Elijah Arterburn, Porter C. Coldwell. John Carder, John Dickison, Woodford England, Joseph M. Grumbling, Wm. G. Howard, Zepheniah Hendricks, George W. Isenberg, Newton J. Jenkins, James S. Johnson. Francis M. Lewis, Charles A. Lewis, Isaac Mitchell, James Mitchell, Cobb F. Mulkey, James Parsley. Brandon Page, David W. Richards, Aaron Russell, Archibald F. Register, John I. Rhoton, Solomon Smalling, Robert Smith, William N. Waits. Simeon W. Williams, Barton Wheeler, George W. Butram, William T. Fulks. Samuel A. Parker, Isaac Collins, John S. Farsier, Letcher H. Harding, Eli E. Richards, Henry Stinson.
Company "H."
CAPTAINS-George H. Cram, Samuel A. Lodge, Wellington J. Cram, John P. Grinstead. 1st LIEUTS .- John W. Combs, Chesly D. Bailey, Smith Pipkins, William O. Boyle. 2d LIEUTS .- William D. Page, Turner Bartley. SERGTS .- Henry W. Washam, Charles A. Coyle, Martin Gowdy, David W. Harland, William Morehead, James H. Simp- son, Theodore Tooley. CORPLS .- David M. Bentley, Samuel Gaddis, Reuben Frazier, Josiah Oliver, Thomas Hagan, Isaac Headrick. William D. Coly. John J. Coly, Moses Brown.
PRIVATES-George C. Davis, William R. Daniels, John Emertons, Landon C. Miller. George W. MeNeese. William McDonald, Elijah Pit- cock. Josiah Steen, William Tooley, James Adams, John Adams, William H. Beheler, James C. Doss. James W. Fitzgerald, James G. Gum, Preston H. Harland, Francis Harris, Thomas A. Jones, Tyra J. Meader, Timothy I. Meader, David F. Meader, William Norman, John S. Sartin, Jasper Stein, Isaiah Turnet, William F. Turner, Charles Tooley. Commodore P. Waddie, Elbert S. Waller. John Washam, Richard Bray, Jacob Cooke, Harvy Copass, Lisby M. Ford, Russell Frazier, Jerial Hoss. Thomas Hagan, Jacob R. James, William R. Jones, James W. King. William A. Lyon, Wilson E. Meader, James M. Parker, James H. Smith, John L. Stinson, Isham Tooley, Montreville Waddle. Harris W. Bray, Harmon Brown, William C. Beheler, John Brown, Elijah Bacon, Benjamin F. Claiborn, Edward D. Glover, Archibald A. Glover, John W. Green, James H. Howard. James M. Keelen. Jeremiah Lawrence. John Lyon. Joseph M. Miller, Thomas Pitcock. Richard Pitcock. Leonard J. Pitcock, Alfred Sortin, Philip Shamley, Benjamin Strickler, John Tooley, Joshua
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Tooley, Thomas Turner, Abram B. Tooley, Clement E. Turner, Parrish H. Woodcock, Patrick H. Whitehead, Samuel R. Walden, James F. Pit- cock. William Brown, Thomas Ford, Isaac G. Hagan, Henry M. Keelan, Calvin McDonald, Martin Meader, Sprial Meader, Jas. Meredy, Thomas S. Pitcock, Jackson Pitcock, Samuel G. Stens, Marcus Woodcock.
Company "1."
CAPTAINS-Jonathan W. Roark, Chesley D. Bailey, John H. Wheat. 1st LIEUTS .- James Rhody, Dewitt C. Downing. 2d LIEUTS .- John B. Austin, Henry H. Townsend. SERGTS .- Washington D. C. Tiffany, Peter D. Martin, Wm. M. Gammon, Alexander Meader, Michael Tracy, James W. Downing, Harry P. Prague. CORPLS .- Marquis D. C. Gam- mon, Charles F. Hargis, Leroy P. Cox, Joseph P. Cooper, Benjamin M. Haines, Nehemiah Raney, William F. Ellis, John M. Gray, Pelley E. F. Martin, William H. Seay, William J. Gray, Amos Jent, Robert T. John- son, Elijah D. Dixson. WAGONER-Jacob N. Mitchell.
PRIVATES-Henderson Benard, Warren Cox, Philip P. Carter, Henry H. Dixon, Isaac Ellis, John H. Francis, Thomas G. Gunn, Walker Hinton, Howell E. Howe. Joseph W. Martin, Walter R. Martin, Ira M. Pipkin, Johnson Stinson, Pleasant E. Shum, Asa Tracy, Charles G. Alex- ander, William M. Alexander, Robert A. Benaird, Smith Benaird, Wash- ington W. Brookes, Julius Coley, Able G. Coley, William P. Carothers. Henry Cole, Thomas Driver, William R. Howard, Yancey Johnson, James H. Lane, Jacob Miller, Asa Blankenship, Saml. S. M. Blankenship, Peter Bean, Jr., John Y. Borden, Thomas M. Bean, John B. Carver, William Cole, Thomas Dixon, Andrew Davis, Uriah P. Hinton, Solomon N. Jones, John J. Jones, William A. Johnson, Joshua Lancaster, Albert A. Meader, Emery Napier, John W. Reagan, Marquis D. L. York, Logan G. Burns, Charles Bralton, Joel Barber, Jesse Y. Brook, Andrew J. Burns, John S. Gammon, Francis M. Huntsman, John W. Henton, Stephen R. Lee, John Minix, Stephen Mahana, Daniel Martin, John S. Puckitt, Wm. T. Parker. James H. Parker, Arthur R. Phelps, William J. Poe, Daniel S. Ramey, David Ramey, James A. Reaves, Daniel T. Stinson, George W. Springer. James N. Curley, Jacob Fishburn, James F. Mayhew, Alexander T. Pip- kin, Anderson B. Weaver. Bishop L. Bandy, Jeremiah Brawner, Wm. A. Borders, John T. Bandy. Vinson R. Dixon, Antonis Dickman. John Gar- rett, James W. Holloway, James G. Kelley, Frederick H. Mahanna, Willis Wems, James A. Weems.
Company "K."
CAPTAINS-Wm. F. Austin, Rufus Somerby, Boyle O. Rodes. 1st LIEUTS .- Demetrius B. Coyle, George Faulkner. 2d LIEUTS .- James Lane, James M. Simmons, Major B. McDuffee. SERGTS .- Milton S. Bishop, George L. Perdue, Maysa H. Simmons, Wm. J. Morrow, Charles F. Austin, William Coleman, William Y. Derasher, George W. McDuffee, John Massey, James M. Newton, General M. Bronson. CORPORALS- George W. Britt. Logan Butler, Lewis Combs, Alexander A. Hatler. James Johnson, Lorenzo D. Massey, Kincher D. Perry, Harper F. Har- rison, Francis M. Perdue. Doctor T. Simmons, Richard H. Good, Reuben H. Good.
PRIVATES-William Buly, Cornelius M. Bishop, Celon C. Carter, John B. Denham, James P. Durham, James H. England, Parke W. Har- land, John Harrison, John H. Hagan, Wm. A. Johnson, James G. Morrow, Thompson Pennington. George W. Rigdon, James M. Simpson, J. John Wheat, Alexander Bybee, William Y. Bush, Obediah F. Durham. W.m. J. England, Joshua Fox, Henry C. Good, Samuel Hatler, Nicholas Jenkins, Archibald Jenkins, Reuben H. Jenkins, William Logan, John L. Mc- Entire, John C. Perdue, Levi A. Russell, Joel Y. Simmons, William M. Simmons, William N. Todd, Langston Tindley. William Veach, Joseph D. Welch, James M. Welch, John Britt, Yancy D. Bandy, Isaac J. Bridge- man, Abram M. Bridgeman, Seth Buly, Joseph W. Clayborn, David C. Chandler, Baily P. Cosby, Vachel M. Clarke, Milton J. Goode, James R. Good. Joseph Gornel, Shadrick B. Horgris, Dixon A. Jenkins, Patrick Larell, Parker M. Murphy, John W. Shivers, James L. Sikes, William R. Spear. Miles W. Austin, John Buly, Thomas Buly, Hagan A. Bishop, Samuel R. Chism, Samuel Combs, Reuben H. Carver, Parker M. Dorsey.
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James H. Dorsey, James Francis, John D. Goodman, Alexander Glover, William Y. Johnson, James Jenkins, Jefferson Jenkins, Leonidas D. Kiby, John B. McGinnis, Willis F. McGinnis, Fountain P. Meadow. Haley Mc- Kinnis, William H. Newton, Daniel S. Simmons, John P. Simmons, Will- jam C. Williams, Joshua Buchanon, John C. H. Gamon, Philip A. Murphy, Ephraim Thomas, Levi A. Austin, Wm. Lorell, Wm. Russell.
Tenth Kentucky Infantry.
It is proper to begin the account of this regiment with a brief mention of the distinguished man who was its colonel. John M. Harlan was born near Danville, Ky., in 1833, the son of Hon. James Harlan, a noted lawyer and attorney-general of Kentucky. Educated at Centre col- lege, and graduating in the law department of Transyl- vania university, he began practice at Frankfort. At the age of twenty-five he was elected county judge. The vear following he failed by only sixty-seven votes of election to Congress, as a Whig, from the Ashland dis- trict. Had he remained in that district he would have been elected to Congress in 1861, but early in that year he removed to Louisville. When the military companies were raised for defense of the city in the spring of that vear, John M. Harlan was captain of the Crittenden Union Zouaves. This company, under Capt. John M. Harlan, was one of the number which proceeded to Muldraugh's Hill, September 17th, when the volunteers were sent there under Gens. Sherman and Rousseau.
September 27, 1861, Capt. Harlan announced his in- tention to raise a regiment. The companies were re- vruited with great rapidity, and in the succeeding month the regiment was full and in camp at Lebanon, Ky. It was mustered into service by Maj. Sidell, U. S. mustering officer, November 21, 1861. It was at once placed in the command of Gen. Thomas. The brigade to which it was assigned being under Col. M. D. Manson. On the 31st of December the regiment left Lebanon and marched through Columbia to the field of active operations, which «ulminated in the battle of Mill Springs, or Logan's Field as it was also called, January 19, 1862. In connection with this first victory of note in the West, the 10th played an important part, though it was sent on a movement which prevented its participation in the actual battle. The reports of Gen. Thomas and Col. Manson mention the arrival on the field of the 10th, and that it engaged in the pursuit of the enemy. Col. Harlan's report shows that on the 17th he proceeded with his regiment some dis-
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tance on the road to Jamestown against a force supposed to be in that direction; he then says:
Information came to me Sunday morning (19th) of the battle at Lo- gan's. Although the men of my regiment were entirely destitute of pro- visions, and on that morning had not received half enough for breakfast, my summons to them to fall into line and march to the aid of our breth- ren was obeyed with commendable alacrity. Starting for the scene of danger we marched as rapidly as it was possible for men to march. Upon reaching Logan's I found the enemy had fled and that our troops had followed in pursuit. Without halting at Logan's we came up with this and the other brigade under Gen. Thomas a short while before dark on Sunday. After our arrival, in obedience to orders, I took pos- session of the woods immediately in front of the rebel fortifications, with directions to hold it against any attack of the enemy. There my men lay on the ground during the whole of Sunday night, without fire, tents, overcoats or blankets, and with nothing to eat except about one-fourth of a cracker to each man.
On the next day the 10th Ky. and 14th Ohio moved into the rebel fortifications in advance of the other troops, and were the first to enter them.
The victory at Mill Springs was followed soon after by the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson, and the retire- ment of the Confederates from Kentucky. From Mill Spring the 10th marched by way of Stanford, Danville and Bardstown to Louisville. From Louisville it went by steamboat down the Ohio, and up the Cumberland to Nashville, and from Nashville it marched to Pittsburg Landing. It accompanied an expedition up the Tennes- see river on transports to Chickasaw, where the troops landed and penetrated the country to destroy a railroad bridge east of Corinth and near Iuka, which was success- fully done.
The 10th was with the troops in the advance upon Corinth, and took part in all movements of that campaign. In the organization of the army April 30, 1862, it was in Gen. S. S. Fry's brigade of Gen. Thomas' division. After the capture of Corinth the 10th moved with Buell's army, and in June was at Tuscumbia, Ala. In JJuly it garri- soned the town of Eastport, Miss. It also crossed the river at Eastport, and marched with trains to Florence, Ala. July 25th two companies ( and H) were posted to guard Courtland bridge, and while there a large force of Confederate cavalry under Gen. Armstrong fell upon them and captured them. Col. Harlan, in his report of this affair, written August Sth at Winchester, Tenn., states he had received a brief note from Capt. Henry G. Davidson, who was in command of the two companies, in which Capt. Davidson shows that when the enemy ap- peared he had his men behind the railroad embankment. and fought until he was surrounded. He says his men behaved splendidly, fighting till the last moment. He
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compliments especially Capt. Pendleton and Lieuts. Reynolds, Barry and Shively; several of his men were wounded, and eleven of the enemy were killed and more than twenty wounded. Col. Harlan says the enemy was greatly enraged that the small body had fought so stub- bornly, and denounced Capt. Davidson because he did not surrender. They fought until overpowered by numbers.
The 10th garrisoned Winchester, Tenn., in August, 1862. From that place it moved when Buell's army en- tered upon the celebrated march to Kentucky to oppose Bragg's invasion. It made the long march to Louisville, and in the organization of the army at the time of the battle of Perryville the 10th was in the 3d Army Corps, Gen. Gilbert, Schoepf's division, Fry's brigade, being bri- gaded with the 4th Ky., 10th and 74th Ind. and 14th Ohio. This brigade did not become engaged, although a portion of the corps did. It followed in the pursuit of Bragg out of the state and then marched to Gallatin, Tenn.
While at Gallatin Col. Harlan was in command of the brigade to which the 10th belonged. December 7, 1862, the brigade was camped at Castalian Springs, and from thence marched under command of Col. Harlan to Harts- ville, where the celebrated attack was made by Gen. John Morgan. Col. Harlan says, in his report, that the can- nonading at Hartsville was heard at Castalian Springs, and he marched his brigade in that direction " as rapidly as men ever marched." He reached the place in time to observe the last of Morgan's troops hurry away, but too late to save or rescue the garrison, which had been captured. They arrived on the scene, however, in time to save much property, including several hundred guns and a large amount of cartridges. Col. Harlan says, in his report, that the muskets thus taken being better than those with which the 10th was armed, the regiment was rearmed. He found the dead on each side unburied. He buried fifteen Confederates, including three officers. Two weeks after this event Morgan moved from Tennessee on a raid into Kentucky. In the latter part of December he passed through Glasgow, and moved in the direction of Munfordville; then striking the railroad he damaged it as far up as Muldraugh's Hill. From the railroad he moved through Bardstown and Springfield, and out of the state through Campbellsville and Burksville.
In order to protect the railroad from this raid, Col. Harlan started from Gallatin, moving his brigade by cars as far up the road as they could go, then by rapid march- ing pushed on to Elizabethtown in time to engage in a 24
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fight with Morgan's men ten miles beyond that place, on the Rolling Fork, December 29th; discovering a force of the enemy there, he says he ordered up the infantry at double quick.
I went to the front in person, and from a high hill I saw quite dis- tinctly a very large body of cavalry formed in line of battle near the: river. Their officers were riding along their line apparently preparing to give us battle. Knowing that Morgan had a larger force than I had. I proceeded cautiously, and yet as expeditiously as the nature of the ground and the circumstances admitted. My men were formed in two lines; skirmishers were thrown out from both infantry and cavalry, cov- ering our whole front, and were ordered to advance and engage th- enemy, the whole line following in close supporting distance. The firing commenced, on the part of the rebels, on our left; it was promptly and vigorously responded to by my skirmishers and the artillery. After a while the rebels were driven away, and they then made some demonstra- tions to occupy an eminence upon my right. To meet this movement the 10th Ind. (Col. Carroll) was ordered to occupy that eminence, from which four companies were ordered to clear the woods on the right on my line. The 4th Ky. (Col. Croxton), 14th Ohio (Col. Este), 74th Ind. (Col. Chap- man), were ordered to form on the left of the 10th Ind. A section of th- battery was ordered to occupy the eminence, and the 10th Ky. (Lieut. Col. Hays) ordered to support it. This left the 13th Ky. (Maj. Hobson). on my left, supporting the section of the battery stationed there. The firing now became general all along the right of our line of skirmishers: but the rebels, after an obstinate resistance, broke and fled precipitately in every direction. Some struck out into the woods; some went up the river as far as New Haven; some swam the river with their horses. Further pursuit that evening was impracticable, and I may say im- possible, in the exhausted state of my men, they having left Munford- ville Sunday morning, and come up with the enemy the succeeding day at one o'clock, forty-three miles distant.
In this fight the Confederates were commanded by Gen. Basil Duke, who was dangerously wounded.
Col. Harlan, in his report, says: "I claim for my , command that it saved the Rolling Fork bridge, and most probably prevented any attempt to destroy the bridge at Shepherdsville;" also that it prevented Morgan's further proseention of his raid, and led to his rapid retirement from the state. While the 10th Ky. was on this service the battle of Murfreesboro occurred, in which the 10th could not engage.
From the pursuit of Morgan the 10th returned to Nash- ville, and on the 26th of January, 1863, it was sent by Gen. Rosecrans with the 4th Ky. and 74th Ind., a cavalry de- tachment and a section of artillery, under command of Col. Harlan, from Murfreesboro, toward Lavergne and Nolensville, to operate against the rebel cavalry. The enemy was encountered and heavy skirmishing took place. but the enemy retired and the 10th remained on duty af Lavergne. This movement occurred in very severe weather, and the regiment suffered greatly from ex- posure to cold and rain.
At Lavergne, Tenn., on the 7th of March, 1863, Col.
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