Our people in Bell County have participated in the wars from the earliest times in this country. They were fighting the Indians and settling Bell County while the Revolutionary War was in progress. They helped to open up the Northwest Territory under George Rogers Clark. They fought against the British in the battles of King's Mountain in the Revolutionary War and at New Orleans under Jackson in the War of 1812. One of the leaders of the Revolutionary War lies buried in the county, Col. Arthur Campbell.

        They did their part in the Civil War on the side of the Union. The large majority of the people of the county was on the side of the Union. However, the county furnished some men for the Confederate side of that war. They have been patriotic people, people who believed in fighting for what they believed was best in government and for the best interests of their community.

        They helped to occupy Cumberland Gap, during the Civil War, under General T. T. Garrard and General George W. Morgan. They helped to stem the tide that poured through Cumberland Gap and Baptist Gap in the early stages of the Civil War. Their lands were overrun by the forces of both sides and their stock and supplies were taken away by both sides. They learned what war meant when supplies of the army came from the community where the army was in occupation or where it was on the march.

        They fought in the War with Mexico and were in the Spanish-American War. Col. David G. Colson, who served two terms in Congress from the old Eleventh District of Kentucky, raised a regiment of soldiers for the Spanish-American War in Bell and adjoining counties, and was at Anniston, Alabama, when the war closed. Elsewhere in this narrative will be found listed the names of the men and officers of his regiment.

        A goodly number of men went from Bell County into the World War. Many of them gave their lives for the cause. A fitting tablet to the memory of those dead has been erected in the Court House yard at Pineville.

        They, together with the other Appalachian people, turned the tide in favor of liberty and freedom in the revolutionary War; at King's Mountain they defeated Ferguson and turned the tide in favor of the colonies; they stood as a wall against the South in the Civil War and

helped to Preserve the Union; they fought in the War of 1812, the War with Mexico, and all the other wars of this country. They truly are a patriotic people, and their history is closely linked with the growth and development of this country from its very beginning. They came here with a hatred of Kings, under whom they had suffered, and they still maintain that hatred, and have kept the fires of liberty aglow since the settlement of this country. The tramp of their pioneer feet can still be heard, if you have the imagination to hear it, as you stand in that famous pass, Cumberland Gap.

I. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

     Mr. A. B. Lipscamb, in his POLITICAL HISTORY OF KENTUCKY, says with reference to Kentucky's part in the Revolutionary War: "Historians have overlooked the part played by these pioneers in the Revolutionary War--for, while Washington held the tide water line facing eastward, George Rogers Clark and the hardy hunters, facing westward, held the line in Kentucky which protected the rear of Washington's army at the time of its sorest need."

        The Wilderness Road through Bell County furnished a highway for the soldiers of Clark, Boone and others, pushing north and west, and, for that intrepid band of hunters, who pressed south, at a critical stage of the War of the Revolution, and won a smashing victory over Ferguson at King's Mountain. Governor Isaac Shelby and Col. Arthur Campbell were two leaders of the Revolutionary forces who delivered that master stroke against the British forces. Col. Campbell, as was shown on this occasion, was an intrepid fighter, with a cool head and a dogged determination. Historians do not all agree as to which officer was in charge of the Campaign against Ferguson; but the evidence seems to point to Col. Arthur Campbell. However, that may be, it is recognized that Col. Campbell's judgment and action helped to win this decisive battle, a

battle that should go down in history as the turning point in the defeat of British arms, the Battle of King's Mountain.

        Col. Arthur Campbell moved to Yellow Creek Valley, the present site of Middlesborough, where he lived the remainder of his days, died and was buried. So Bell County holds the remains of one of the most valiant men of the Revolution.

        W. H. Haney, in HISTORY OF THE MOUNTAIN PEOPLE, says" "Bell County also bears testimony to the good blood of the Kentucky pioneers. In speaking of the War of 1812, Mr. Lewis P. Summers says: 'Colonel James Campbell died in service at Mobile, Alabama, and Colonel John B. Campbell fell at the battle of Chippewa where he commanded the right wing of the army under General Winfield Scott. Both men were sons of Colonel Arthur Campbell, the father of his country. Campbell himself died at his home, on the present site of Middlesborough, Kentucky, in the year 1811, and his body was buried at that place according to the direction of his will, which is on record at the County Clerk's office of this county.' Recently the grave of Colonel Arthur Campbell was discovered in an out of the way place with an iron slab bearing the inscription:

    'Here lies, entombed, a Revolutionary sage,

    An ardent patron of the age,

    In erudition great, and useful knowledge to scan--

    In philosophy hospitable, the friend of man,

    As a soldier brave, virtue his morality.

    As a Commander, prudent, his religion charity.

    He practiced temperance to preserve his health.

    He used industry to acquire wealth.

    He studied physic to avoid disease.

    He studied himself to complete the plan,

    For his greatest study was the study of man.

    His stature tall, his person portly,

    His feature handsome, his manner courtly.

    Sleep, honored sire, in the realms of rest,

    In doing justice to thy memory, a son is blest.

    In doing justice to thy memory, a son is blest.

    A son is inheriting in full thy name,

    One who aspires to all thy fame.

                         Colonel Arthur Campbell.'

     The battle of King's Mountain holds an important place in the history of Bell County, because of its valiant leaders lies buried in Bell County, as stated above; because some of the fighters in the ranks came from Bell County; and because Bell County furnished a highway through itsterritory for the Kentucky contingent in this battle to pass through to the battle ground, the battle having been fought by Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina riflemen. These men were hastily brought together from the mountains, principally, of Tennessee and Kentucky and rushed to the scene of battle, without having been trained together as an army. Many of them were trained soldiers, having battled against the British forces before and having fought under Clark and in the Indian wars. Many of them however, were hunters of no, or little, military

experience. The Kentuckians were brought together by Shelby and marched on horseback and on foot through Cumberland Ford, the Narrows, and Cumberland Gap and south to King's Mountain. After they passed the Gap they were joined, on the route, by the Tennesseeans.

        Julian Hawthorne, in his HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, says: "A company of backwoodsmen under Macdowell, chased across the Alleghenies by Tarleton, roused the settlers in the remote region to activity, and they raised a force to resist him. Isaac Shelby (afterwards the first Governor of Kentucky and one of the first owners of the present site of Pineville) and John Sevier led them over the mountains, effecting a junction with Campbell, and this little army was joined by a party of three hundred and fifty under Cleveland on September 30th. Ferguson was sent against them, and Tarleton joined him with his light infantry and the British legion. The American Western Army (as it called itself) camped at Cowpens, and there received the reinforcement of William with four hundred men; they now numbered altogether about seventeen hundred. Learning from Williams that the British were encamped in a strong natural position on the top of King's Mountain, they resolved to attack them, and nine hundred picked horsemen set out the same night on the adventure. They arrived at the foot of the precipitous mountain on the 7th of

October (1780). The enemy numbered eleven hundred. The Americans divided into four columns, and climbed to the attack in front and rear, and were within four hundred yards before they were discovered. They were met by the bayonet, but although they themselves were unprovided with that weapon, they continued the attack. The battle lasted an hour; four hundred and fifty of the enemy were killed or severely wounded; Ferguson himself fell; and the rest surrendered. The Americans lost but twenty-eight killed and sixty wounded. The attack was heroically led by Shelby, Sevier, Campbell, Winston, Williams, and Cleveland."

        Hallack, in his HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY, says with reference to this battle: "King's Mountain (October 7, 1780) is as noteworthy toward the end of the war as Bunker Hill was at the beginning. The battle marks the turn of the

tide in favor of the patriots."

        In the HISTORY OF TENNESSEE, 1887, published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Gen. Bernard, an officer under Napoleon, is quoted as saying:

        "The Americans, by their victory in this engagement, erected a monument to perpetuate the memory of the brave men, who had fallen there; and the shape of the hill itself would be an eternal monument to the military genius and skill of Col. Ferguson in selecting a position so well adapted for defense; and that no other plan of assault but that pursued by the mountain men, could have succeeded against him."

        This statement was intended to praise Ferguson as an officer in the battle, but incidentally Gen. Bernard has praised the mountain men for taking this almost impregnable position. Hence the quotation of this statement here.

        Lewis Green, 1751-1835, who lies buried in the valley between Tanyard Hill and Calloway Hill, was a Revolutionary War soldier. His name appears on the roll of Kentucky pensioners and was allowed forty dollars per year. He enlisted at Blackamon's Fort on Clinch River, at the age of twenty-five, in the spring of 1776, Russell County, Virginia. He made a trip to the Kentucky settlements at Harrod's Fort and was also with Boone in scouting parties. He came to Kentucky as a surveyor and acquired a large tract of land from the top of Pine Mountain to the waters of the Cumberland.

        At the age of eighty-two years, in 1833, he made application for a pension before acting Justice of the Peace, as he was unable to travel the

distance of seventeen miles to the court house. He died in 1835 and was buried on Tanyard Hill near the Meeting House Branch. Lewis Green employed the use of tanning vats in the curing of skins, which gave the name Tanyard Hill to that location,

        The Daughters of the American Revolution, in their effort to honor this valiant soldier, erected a marker on the side of the main highway between Harlan and Pineville and near where his body lies buried. This can be seen by the traveler along this highway.

        He settled upon the farm up on which his body lies buried just after he was mustered out of the army in 1783.(His grave has been moved to cemetery on hill above where his grave was can not be seen from Rt119)crm

II. WAR OF 1812

        "The records of this office show that one John Funston (John Fuson) served in the War in 1812 in Capt. William Garrard, Jr.'s Troop of Voluntary Dragoons, also designated as Capt. William Garrard, Jr.'s Troop of United States Voluntary Light Dragoons, Capt. William Garrard, Jr.'s Troop of Volunteer Light Dragoons of the State of Kentucky, Lieut. Col. James W. Ball's Squadron, Light Dragoons, United States Volunteers. His service commenced Aug. 20, 1813, and ended Aug. 20, 1814.

                                         Robert C. Davis

                                         Major General

                                         The Adjutant General

      Dec. 17, 1926                      By E.W.M.

III. THE CIVIL WAR

          One of the first territories occupied during the Civil War was Cumberland Gap. Zollicoffer rushed an army into Cumberland Gap, in 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, came on to the Rufus Moss farm at the mouth of Clear Creek, occupied this farm with his army and fortified the southern end of "The Narrows" south of Pineville. The story of this occupation will be found in the chapter on "The Cumberland Ford Settlement."        

          Later, 1863, the Gap was occupied by Gen. George W. Morgan and the Union forces. Morgan retreated from there under very difficult circumstances. The account of the Civil War operations, in and around Cumberland Gap, will be found in the chapter on "Cumberland Gap in the History of the State." The Gap was occupied by first one army and then the other, during the whole of the Civil War. Bell County's soldiers were a part of the Union army which occupied the Gap and served in the armies during the whole of the Civil War.

        James Henry Lee, my uncle, joined the Union Army when he was only eighteen years of age and fought in the Battle of lookout Mountain and was in Sherman's march to the sea. His record from the War Department follows:

        "The records show that James Lee, age 18 years, was enrolled September 2, 1861, at Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky, for the period of three years, and mustered in October 1, 1861, at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky, as a private, Captain Mayhew's Company, 1st Brigade Kentucky Infantry, which subsequently became Company A, 8th Regiment Kentucky Infantry, and was mustered out and honorably discharged as a Private, November 17, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee.

    August 31, 1938.                   E. S. Adams,

                                       Major General

                                       The Adjutant General

                                       Per H.E.H."

           James Henry Lee, after the war, taught school in the Public Schools in Bell County, and was elected the first County Court Clerk of Bell County, upon its organization in 1867. James Henry Lee was the oldest son of Philip Lee, who moved to Big Clear Creek in Bell County from the head of Martins Fork of Cumberland River in Harlan County about 1841. Philip Lee was a son of Andrew Lee, who was a relative of Light Horse Harry Lee. Andrew Lee settled on the head of Martins Fork near the Bell-Harlan county line and took up land there in 1819 and 1823, as shown in the records of the Patent Office, Frankfort, Kentucky.

        In 1863, the 49th Kentucky Regiment of Voluntary Infantry was organized. This regiment consisted of ten companies, of which Bell County furnished Company "K." The Adjutant General's report for 1867, Schedule "A", pages 503-505, gives a list given, together with a brief history of this Regiment, and the officers. John Goodin, Captain, son of John (Jack) Goodin and Mahala (Fuson) Goodin, and promoted to Captain,December 14, 1863. Henry Blendowsky, First Lieutenant Thomas J. Ingram, Second Lieutenant William F. Collins, 1st Sergeant Beth Fuson, son of Mahala Fuson, Sergeant William S. Partin, Sergeant Larkin Webb, Sergeant James B. Collins, Sergeant Tyler Messer, Corporal

William Morrison, Corporal William H. Money, Corporal Joe D. Partin, Corporal George T. Tunaway, Corporal James Fuson, stepson of Hall Fusion, musician Alexander Carroll, Wagoner William Browner, Private James Cusacks,      " Solomon Carter,     " John T. Crawford,   " Michael Dalon,      " John Dunn,          " Joseph Goodin,      " Harrison Gibson,    " William Goodin,     " Daniel K. Gambrell, " Riley Gibson,       " Joseph Gibson,      " Hamilton Hembree,   " William Hage,       " Morton Hillman,     " Amos Ivey,          " Alonzo B. Kitts,    " James McMain,       "Thomas Marsee,      " Joseph Marsee,      " Bratcher Mason,     " Elijah Marical (Miracle) Private Sion Messer,     Private Daniel S. Partin,   " Joseph Partin       " Henry S. Partin,    " Skelton Patterson,  " William Partin,     " Andrew Riley,       " Harvey Sowders,     " James A. Sparks,    " Frederick Sildwall, " Benjamin Tudder,    " Harrison Tudder,    " William J. Wimen,   " Pearcen Webb,       " Franklin Wilson,    " John Yonkowski,     "

HISTORY OF THE REGIMENT

       The 49th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, was organized at Camp Nelson, Kentucky, under Col. John G. Eve. This Regiment was originally recruited for the cavalry service, but, prior to muster-in, viz.: on December 14, 1863, the various detachments were consolidated into ten companies, and the officers were duly commissioned from that date. All the companies and detachments were mustered into the U.S. service on the 19th day of September, 1863, except two, one of which was mustered in October 7, 1863, and the other November 3, 1863.

        The Regiment marched as follows: It left Camp Nelson for Somerset, Kentucky, October 28, 1863; shortly afterwards two companies went to Camp Burnside, and one was put on duty at Waynesburg, Kentucky. The Regiment was moved from Somerset to Camp Burnside. On the 3rd and 4th days of January, 1864, it left Camp Burnside for Lexington, Kentucky, where it arrived on the 6th, and on the 17th it was sent to Louisville with the view of being marched against Adam Johnson's command; but it was recalled and returned to Lexington on August 21, 1864. It remained on duty, chiefly in the center portion of the state, until December 24, 1864, when it was mustered out at Lexington, Kentucky.

        The veterans from this Regiment, re-enlisted by Captain J. M. Cook, were transferred to 7th Kentucky cavalry, and constituted Company "I" of that Regiment. Those re-enlisted by Captain Francis Catron were transferred to 1st Kentucky cavalry.

        The official staff of the 49th Kentucky Regiment were:John G. Eve, Colonel Philos Stratton, Lieut. Colonel James H. Davidson, Major James H. Tinsley, Adjutant George Smith, Q.M. Walter H. Prentice, Surgeon Henry C. Miller, Surgeon William B. Swisher, Ast. Surgeon Hugh W. Hagan, Asst. Surgeon Ebenezer Ingram, Chaplain Solomon M. Smith, Serg. Major George M. Siler, Q.M. Serg. James M. Adkins, Com. Serg.

John S. Henry, Hosp. Steward

        W.M. Bingham, Pineville, Kentucky, popularly called "Captain," was in Company "E", 26th Kentucky Voluntary Infantry during the Civil War. His record is as follows: Enrolled March 15, 1865, mustered in at Salisbury, N.C., June 19, 1865, for a period of three years, and mustered out July 10, 1865. Promoted from Sergeant to 1st Lieutenant, March 15, 1865. There is nothing in the record to show that he was ever promoted to Captain. (See Adjutant General's Report for Kentucky 1867, page 722).

THE GEORGE W. MORGAN RETREAT

        One of the most cleverly planned and executed retreats of an army, in all history, is that of Gen. George W. Morgan, the Union general, from

Cumberland Gap during the Civil War. Few details of this retreat have ever been known or published. There comes from the pen of Robert L.

Kincaid, in Cumberland Lore in the THREE STATES newspaper, of Middlesborough, Kentucky. the story of this retreat. It is given, in part, here.

        "Many people in this section can recall that night (September 17, 1862). I talked not long ago with Uncle Sill Turner, who remembers the occasion well. 'The mountain was afire all over.' he said, in trying to describe the holocost which Morgan's men left in the wake of their retreat northward. He was a boy down on Yellow Creek, and saw the catastrophe from afar. I have read many individual accounts of soldiers who witnessed some phases of it. None of them could give a complete story, for that story has never been written. only the imagination can fill out the thrilling details.

        "The story of Morgan's evacuation of Cumberland Gap is familiar to all student of local history; how his 8,000 men were slowly starving on their shortened rations; how he was cut off from help from the north by General Kirby Smith's army, which had pushed into Kentucky through Big Creek Gap, on to Cumberland Ford, and then northward to Barbourville, hurrying to join the forces of General Braxton Bragg threatening Louisville and Cincinnati; how from southwest Virginia the Confederate General Humphrey Marshall was hastening through Pound Gap toward Manchester, to cut off any possible retreat of Morgan; and how the Confederate forces under General Stevenson were threatening south of

the Gap, with all roads blocked. Surrender was inevitable, as Morgan's army was slowly starving, and there was no way out. It was question of only a few weeks, at the most.

        "General Morgan put up a good front. He refused to surrender to Smith. He sent dispatches daily to his superiors, saying he was safe, that there was no danger of his starving, that he had supplies to last for a long siege. This confused his friends as well as his foes. it is now known that his dispatches were written deliberately to fool the enemy, for he knew that some of his dispatches would fall into their hands.

        "But the situation was serious and he knew it. He called a council of his staff officers. They went over the situation. One of his best advisers was Captain Sidney Lyon, former state geologist of Kentucky. There was only one possible way of retreat, and that was toward Ohio, almost along the 'Old Warrior's Path,' through Cumberland Ford, to Manchester, Mt. Sterling and directly north. But it was a narrow, hazardous, mountainous way; creeks and mountains had to be passed; the road little more than a rocky path over which it would be impossible to transport heavy guns.

        "The decision was reached. Evacuation was planned, with the heavy guns to be spiked and rendered useless (including Long Tom), the vast storehouse of supplies which had been accumulated for over three months for an offensive in east Tennessee to be destroyed. Carefully the plans were made to fool the watchful enemy on the southern front. The mountain was thoroughly mined. The night of September 17 was set for the withdrawal. As soon as darkness fell, the vanguard of the retreating columns swung into line and began to file down the north side of Cumberland Mountain and along the old State Road through the Yellow Creek Valley.

        "All night was required to evacuate the 8,000 men. But at two o'clock in the morning, the zero hour for settling the mines had arrived, when the last companies were falling in behind the long wagon trains. Far up in Kentucky was the army of Kirby-Smith. Somewhere in the eastern Kentucky hills General Marshall was rushing as fast as he could with his force of 2,000 men. The Confederate cavalry leader, General John Hunt Morgan, was lurking somewhere in the hills, ready to pounce upon the retreating army, with his intrepid horsemen, numbering about 600.

        "It was one chance in a thousand, but Morgan was taking it. The night was pitch dark; no moon; toward morning a drizzling rain. In the retreating forces were hundreds of east Tennesseeans, turning away from their homes with heavy hearts. They had longed to rush into their native heath and recover those homes from the grip of Confederate rule. It was truly a night of defeat and despair.

        "General Morgan made one last hurried survey toward midnight of September 17, 1862, to inspect the preparations for blowing up the storehouses and springing the mines which had been laid on both the Pinnacle and the Three States peaks. He wound up at Colonel Baird's headquarters near the Saddle of the Gap. He was sitting on his horse in the deep gloan, pondering the situation. Soldiers were still silently pouring down the mountainside, with orders for absolute quiet. The crunching of feet among the stones and ruts of the mountain road was the only sound. The wagons had already reached the valley.

        "As Morgan sat there on his horse, contemplating the situation, Captain Gallup, who had been placed in charge of the faithful little group who were to spring the mines, came up and saluted. He announced he was ready. Everything was set. The General said: 'You have a highly important duty to perform. This ammunition and these arms and military stores must not fall into the hands of the enemy. I hope you will not be captured.' With that final word, the General wheeled his horse and disappeared into the darkness, falling in behind his staff officers. Gallup would do his duty.

        "The night wore on, and two o'clock approached. Then the small force, which had been left, were ordered to take the trail. The zero hour was at hand. Three men were left with Gallup, Markham, O'Brien and Thad Reynolds, known as one of the boldest scouts and spies in the Union army. These were to set the fires to the various buildings.

        "In a little while the flames began to roll heavenward from a dozen points in the battlefield area. Then the time came to set the trains to the

mines under the ammunition dumps. Gallup gave the order. He waited for a little while, and nothing happened. Surprised, he went to

investigate and found that by some misunderstanding the mines had not been set. He galloped to the spot where the main dump was to be exploded. Seizing some burning fagots he fired the trains with his own hands, and then remounted his horse and plunged through the Gap and down into the darkness toward Yellow Creek.

        "Gallup had barely reached a safe distance down the trail when the first explosion shook the mountain. the conflagration in the Gap was at its highest and the murky heavens were lit up with the lurid blaze. The Pinnacle precipice was reddened in the torrid glow. Then the first explosion. The whole midnight mask was pierced by the terrible burst of thunder, and flames shot up toward the starless skies. The mountains were lighted brighter than by a noonday sun.

        "Gallup sat for a few moments on his horse as he turned his face back toward the scene of splendor and destruction. Afterwards, in speaking of his impressions, he said: 'Every fissure and opening in the mountains around me were visible. The trees and rocks upon their sides, at any time interesting and picturesque, were now grand in their beauty. It was a scene more like enchantment than reality. I gazed lost in admiration. But suddenly the scene was changed. The large magazine with its rich stores of powder and fixed ammunition exploded. The explosion shook the mountain like a toy in the hands of a monster. The air was filled with dense smoke so that I could hardly breathe. Huge masses of rock, cartridge boxes, barrels of powder, and other materials were blown to an indescribable height, and went whirling through the air in wild confusion, falling in some instances more than a mile from the exploding magazine. A moment after, the burning roof of a building, 180 feet long, used as a storehouse on the mountain, fell in and set fire to the shells stored there.

        "A historian of the time recorded: 'Before the blazing embers that shot in a fiery shower heavenward had fallen, the explosion took place in the trembling gorge, sounding like a thousand cannon let off at  once. Lighted on its way by a sea of flame, and keeping step to such stern and awful music did that gallant band move off into the night.'

        "The fusillade of shots and bursting shells kept up until noon of the next day. The Rebels were filled with consternation as they gazed on the lurid sky. They did not occupy the wasted area until three o'clock the next day. Silence and desolation reigned throughout the gorge, while the rocks were piled on it in one wild wreck.

        "The vanguard of Morgan's men had reached Cumberland Ford when the explosions began. They could hear very clearly the repercussions which were shaking the Pinnacle to its base. Wearily, the soldiers tramped on toward Manchester, where, in accordance with Morgan's orders, they were to assemble and plan for the rushed march further north. They escaped Marshall's army hurrying through the hills from Pound Gap by the margin of one day. But the Rebel 'Raider,' Gen. John Hunt Morgan, swooped out of the forest on their rear, poured shot and shell into their ranks, then dashed along by-roads and got in front, cut down trees across the roads, gave fight again on the vanguard, and continued to bedevil the harassed army for over a hundred miles.

        "But George Morgan's men escaped, with few losses, and finally reached the peaceful Ohio, which they greeted with shouts of joy. Many had not eaten for days, except acorns, pumpkins, and parched corn, hurriedly snatched as they tramped along. One day, all the general and his staff had was one parched ear of corn, and on another day, twelve small potatoes.

        "Ten women, wives and daughters of the officers, were with the retreating army. Once General Morgan found one of these women, pale and sad, resting on a log for a moment. He remarked that she did not look well, and he hoped that she was not ill. 'Oh, no, General,, she said wearily, 'I have not eaten but once in forty-eight hours.,

        "The retreat of General Morgan for 200 miles out of the center of a territory held by the Confederates, and where the countryside had long been stripped of anything to eat, with the loss of only eighty men, has been considered a great military achievement. But Morgan caused a delay of Smith's army, preventing its union with Bragg, and prepared the way for the defeat at Perryville."

IV. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

     James E. Mirick was reared on Little Clear Creek, and, for many years while James E. was growing up to manhood, his father lived on the lower end of the J.T. Fuson farm. From there James E. Mirick went to the army. This was several years, or a few years at least, before the breaking out of the Spanish-American War. James E. Mirick was stationed on the West Coast when this war broke out and he was rushed to the Philippine Islands and fought through the war there. After the war was over he went to New York City and joined the Navy. After being honorably discharged from the Navy he went to a Veterans Home in Texas where he died around 1929 or 1930. His father's name was John Mirick, who lived on Straight Creek at the time of his death. John Mirick was a Baptist preacher.

        James E. Mirick fought in the Navy during the World War. He was connected with the convoy system between this country and Europe.

COMPANY "A" FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY - SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

        Colonel D.G. Colson, who was then in Congress, resigned and organized the Fourth Regiment of Infantry. The Company "A," of this regiment, was from Bell County, the home of Colonel Colson. the names of this company follow: Leander F. Frisby, Captain, Ebeneezer Ingram, First Lieutenant, John L. Powers, Second Lieutenant, James R. Rollins, Robert VanVever, George W. Ewell, Thomas J. Ingram, George L. Barkly,

Grant Mason, Charles Hoskins, James T. Donnely, Benjamin Girdner, William G. Ross, Dale York, Frederick Farris, James Metlock, George Elliott, John W. Brown, Elijah Jones, James White, William J. Williams, Daniel Alford, Tilden Daniel, Russell Carrier, Green Turner, Elijah Matlock, Hecktor Huber, John W. Alford, Stephen E. Alford, Thomas D. Alford, Martin Alford, Tarleton Alford, James Allen, David C. Baker, James L. Begley, Albert Begley, Samuel Begley, William Begley, John S. Bennett, Bentley Vintson, George Blackburn, Maynard H. Boone, Arthur Brock, James Brock, George W. Burgan, Giles Carroll, James M. Carroll, William Challes, Henderson Childers, Charles B. Cole, Richard Coleman, Joseph W. Cole, William L. Collins, Albert Cook, John Cox, Maurice H. Dudley, John G. Dudley, Isaac M. Doughlas, William J. Elliott, Matthew Fuson, James M. Gibson, John T. Gibson, George W. Hargis, Alfred B. Hayes, Ebeneezer Hemphill, Ewell Hendrickson, John E. Hendrickson, Elisha L. Hoskins, Henry Hoskins, Larkin Howard, John Howard, Ewing Jackson, James E. Johnson, Montgomery Johnson, William D. Johnson, Levi Jones, William H. Jones, Louis Lawson, Robert Lewis, John Mason, Hugh H. Marshall, John Matlock, Thomas Matlock, George C. Mason, James Milton, George Moore, John McGaffee, Lewis McKinney, John V.L. McKee, Charles M. McWhorter, John McWhorter, Robert E. Page, Adam Partin, Luther G. Perren, John L. Powers, Forrest Preston, Dudley Puckett, Wade W. Reeves, Joseph R. Ryan, John Sawyer, Lee Scalf, Harry Scarce, Ivan Scott, John C. Shelton, Samuel D. Shelton, George Siler, Sampson Siler, James R. Silvia, John Slusher, Samuel Slusher, Frank Smith, Joseph W. Smith, Harvey Sullivan, Freelen Taylor, John Taylor, John B. Thompson. E.O. Thomas, Thurman Ennis, Frank Turner, Carter

Unthank, Scott Weddington, Burt Webb, Jacob A. Willis, Edwin Wilson, Newton Williams, Marcus York.

        Those discharged were Alfred Martin, Alfred Tarleton, Giles Carroll, Larkin Howard, Ewing Jackson, John Mason, John L. Powers.

        Those transferred were Hector Huber, James Allen, Albert Begley, Samuel Begley, William Begley, Maynard H. Boone, James M. Carroll, Henderson Childers, Richard Coleman, Isaac N. Douglas, William J. Elliott, Alfred B. Hayes, John Howard, Hugh H. Marshall, John V.L. McKee, Forrest Preston, Ivan Scott, George Siler, Harvey Sullivan, Freelen Taylor, John Taylor, Carter Unthank, Scott Weddington, Newton Williams.

        Those who deserted were Daniel Tilden and James R. Silvia.

        The list of this company was furnished by Hugh Lewis, Field Secretary and Chief Records Clerk in the Military Department, Veterans Division. The information was obtained from "Roster of the Volunteer Officers and Soldiers from Kentucky in the War with Spain," pages 154, 156, and 158.           

V. WORLD WAR

        John L. Fuson, a son of Rev. J. J. Fuson, of Middlesborough, Kentucky, served in the World War as a private. His Serial Number was

561,902. He enlisted March 21, 1914, at Columbus Barracks, Ohio. He was in Company E, 59th Infantry. Was overseas from May 3, 1918, to September 9, 1919. He was discharged September 22, 1919, at Camp Meade, Maryland. Character, honorable.

        He reenlisted September 23, 1919, at Camp Meade, Maryland, and was honorably discharged September 22, 1920, at Camp Dodge, Iowa, a private, CampUtilities Detachment, Quartermaster Corps. BENNET ASHER POST NO. 10, AMERICAN LEGION

        It is impossible, in the limits of a work of this kind, to get the name of all the soldiers who went from Bell County into the World War; but is

possible to get some of them or as many as are available for the space allowed. My good fried W.F. Durham, of Pineville, Kentucky, has very kindly furnished me the following information in regard to the American Legion in Bell County, the members belonging to the same, and the men who lost their lives in the war itself. The members of the Bennet Asher Post no. 10, American Legion, Pineville, Kentucky, are Ervin Shackleford, Hulen; James F. Dorton, Hulen; R.L. Daniel, Alva; W.S. Williams, Pineville, Route No. 1; S.F. Twinam, Pineville; W.P. Allen, Pineville; Alex Slusher, Calvin; Will Sutherland, Pineville; Garfield Howard, Balkan; John J. Slusher, Pineville; N.P. Parsons, Hulen; Maurice Tribell, Pineville; Julian Saunders, Pineville; B.P. York, Pineville; L.J. Castell, Hulen; Lee Creech, Pineville; M.G. Slusher, Pineville; E.B. Wilson, Pineville; J.M. Pursifull, Pineville; J.M. Brooks, Pineville; Claude S. Hendrickson, Pineville; Foster Tolliver, Chenoa; George Lively, Pineville; Levi Lee, Alva;

George Anthanasion, Pineville; Dr. J.S. Parrott, Pineville; B.B. King, Pineville; Jacob Green, Four Mile; R.H. Whitaker, Alva; Jesse Hamilton,Pineville; R.H. Whitaker, Alva; Jesse Hamilton, Pineville; Hiram L. Brice, Pineville; Frank Freeman, Calvin; Jakie Howard, Cardinal; Ed Vanover, Pineville; Phil Gambrel, Pineville; Sim Bowlin, Chenoa; Nick Sideras, Pineville; James E. Crowley, Pineville; Zin Girtman, Pineville; Millard Blanton, Pineville; Frank Saylor, Pineville; Dr. C.H. Tinsley, Tinsley; Custer Bailey, Blanche; Arthur Stroud, Pineville; Louis Lock, Rella; Clay Trent, Middlesborough; Frank Durham, Pineville; Oscar Hall, Wasioto; Otto Slusher, Wasioto; Andy Taylor, Calvin; John Brock, Kettle Island; Ewing Green, Calvin; Dr. J.L. McCarty, Pineville; Frank Roark, Hulen; Arthur Howard, Pineville; John West, Hulen; Herndon Evans,

Pineville; Dilly Hendrickson, Four Mile; Willie Brock, Pineville; Samuel J. Meyers, Field; Mertie Owens, Pineville; Vernon Saylor, Pineville; Hobert Jackson, Pineville; Henry Sutton, Kettle Island; George Brown, Hulen; Harry Isaacs, Pineville; W.F. Hunter, Four Mile; Everette Helton, Pineville; Proctor Washam, Pineville; James S. Helton, Pineville; Jack Helton, Gross; H.H. Davis, Miracle; Carl Hall, Hulen; E.H. Seal, Pineville; W.H. Moore, Arjay; Dewey Hendrickson, Four Mile; Isaac Shaw, Four Mile; W.F. Gates, Field; R.B. Baird, Pineville; C.B. Weller, Pineville; Herbert Shipley, Four Mile; Blevins Collett, Straight Creek; William E. Metcalf, Pineville; Dudley Taylor, Tinsley; George McKee, Pineville;

R.M. Hinkle, Pineville; John Asher, Pineville; W.E. Brooks, Pineville; Dillard Wilder, Miracle; John B. Sizemore, Beverly; Hobert Parsons, Pineville; Pearl Osborne, Pineville; Jesse L. Luttrell, Pineville; J.M. Rogers, Pineville; Jim Elliott, Pineville; Dr. R. B. Maw, Pineville; William Brooking, Pineville; E.H. Turpin, Pineville; M.F. Ogden, Pineville; Reed Smith, Alva; James E. Claxton, Pineville; Ralph B. Green, Hulen; Sim Collins, Pineville; George Whitt, Pineville; J.R. Howard, Pineville; F.T. Walters, Hulen; Willie Dye, Cary; General Fuston (Fuson), Pineville; B.O. Howard, Pineville; Joe E. Thomas, Pineville; James A. Bates, Pineville; Bradley Mink, Pineville; Chester McGeorge, Pineville; R.E. Wilson, Four Mile; Rima L. Lane, Pineville; Arthur Miracle, Pineville; J.B. Fletcher, Pineville; Speed Hendrickson, Pineville; Urn R. Johnson, Pineville;

Ance Gambrel, Pineville.

THOSE WHO DIED IN SERVICE IN THE

WORLD WAR OR HAVE DIED

SINCE THE WAR

        Bennet Asher, Pineville; Dr. Mason Combs, Pineville; John Holder, Pineville; George Burchett, Pineville; Napoleon Rose, Hulen; Than Snellins, Hulen; Dillard Hoskins, Cubage; Pearl Howard, Pineville; Captain C.H. Hill, Pineville; Garrett Hill, Pineville; Dr. Brown Lee Pursifull, Calvin.

        The Dewey Guy Post of the American Legion, Middlesborough, Kentucky, elected the following officers for the year 1939; R.L. Maddox, local attorney, Commander; Neil Barry, first vice-commander; George Talbott, second vice-commander; H.P. Stickley, adjutant; W.P. Creswell, service officer; Dr. W.A. Hartwell, chaplain; C.W. Bailey, historian; and Clint Hayes, master at arms.

        Dr. J.C. Carr, who is concluding his second term as commander of the post, presided at the meeting and was one of the several speakers on the occasion. Others addressing the meeting were Maurice Tribell, commander of the Bennet Asher Post of Pineville; H.C. Chappell, Joe Harris, W.J. Collins, C.W. Bailey, R.L. Maddox, and H.P. Stickley.