​​​MILITARY LEGACY OF LETCHER COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND BEYOND

GENEALOGY ~ PHOTOGRAPHS ~ LETTERS ~ HISTORY


Written And Compiled by Waukesha Lowe Sammons

Daughter of Daskum Combs (1917 - 2005) and Technical Sergeant, Albert Roy "Jake" Lowe (1917 - 1944),

who was awarded a Silver Star Medal for Action Taken on The Fourth of July 1944 in France,

and who was Killed In Action on September 16, 1944 in World War II.

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LETCHER COUNTY, KENTUCKY SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN, MARINES

REMEMBER AND NAME, A - CAUDILL

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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

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AMBURGEY

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AMBURGEY, THOMAS FRANCIS (1825-1897), CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN:  Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
OTHER RESIDENCE:  Carson, Letcher County, Kentucky.  Knox County, Kentucky.  
DATE OF BIRTH:  13 April 1825 in Virginia.
PARENTS:  Rebecca Francis and Ambrose Amburgey.
GRANDPARENTS:  Elizabeth Hammon and John Burgey / Amburgey, American Revolutionary War.
SPOUSE:  Mary Madden.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:  Kentucky.
RANK:  Private.
BRANCH OF SERVICE:  Infantry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:  Company F, 5th Infantry Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
DATE OF DEATH:  25 February 1897 in Knox County, Kentucky.
CEMETERY:  Amburgey Cemetery, Hindman, Knott County, Kentucky.
SOURCES:  Census.  Findagrave.  U. S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865.
NOTE:  I placed Thomas Francis Amburgey on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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​AMBURGEY, THOMAS H. (1842-1927), CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN:  Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.
OTHER RESIDENCE:  Brandy Keg, Dicks Creek, Lancer, Porter and Johns Creek in Floyd County, Kentucky.   
DATE OF BIRTH: 17 September 1844 in Knott County, Kentucky.  Born 1842 on sworn affidavit.  
PARENTS:  Mary Polly Hagins / Higgins and Alfred Amburgey.
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS:  Lucy Franklin and William Amburgey, War of 1812.
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS:  Elizabeth Hammon and John Burgey / Amburgey, American Revolutionary War.
SPOUSE:  Nancy Wheatley.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:  Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE:  2 September 1862 in Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.
DISCHARGE DATE:  15 April 1865, Ordered to Surrender Arms.
RANK:  Private.
BRANCH OF SERVICE:  Infantry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:  Company A, Caudill’s Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, AKA Company A, 10th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Riflemen, AKA 11th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, AKA 13th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.  
KENTUCKY CONFEDERATE PENSION RECORDS, 1912-1930; PENSION AFFIDAVIT, 27 JUNE 1912:
~ “Served under Colonel Ben Caudill, Captain Hiram (Unreadable) and First Lieutenant Campbell Pigman.”
~ “In 1865 April about [the] 15th ... I was ordered to stack arms, which was after Gen R. E. Lee’s surrender.  [I was never] in Prison.”
DATE OF DEATH:  29 June 1927, Kentucky.
FIRST BURIAL CEMETERY, 1927:  Amburgey Family Cemetery, near his home on Johns Creek, Floyd County, Kentucky.  His grave was removed from the Dewey Lake Flood Plain, because of the building of the Dewey Lake Dam.
SECOND BUIRAL CEMETERY, ca 1949:  Auxier Relocation Cemetery, Auxier, Floyd County, Kentucky.  The cemetery was established March 1949.   
SOURCES:  Census.  Findagrave.  Kentucky Confederate Pension Records, 1912-1930, Soldier’s Application For Pension.  Kentucky Death Records.  U. S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865.  U. S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles.   
NOTE:  I placed Thomas H. Amburgey on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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BACK

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DAVID BACK (1837-1925), UNCLE, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, CIVIL WAR.
DAVID BACK (1843-1864), NEPHEW, CONFEDERATE ARMY, PRISONER OF WAR,
WHO DIED IN CAPTIVITY OF SMALLPOX AT CAMP DOUGLAS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS


BACK, DAVID (1837-1925), CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN:  Indiana Bottom, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.  Campton, Wolfe County, Kentucky.
OTHER RESIDENCE:  Lower Rockhouse and Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.   
DATE OF BIRTH:  21 April 1837.
PARENTS:  Susannah Maggard and Henry Back, Jr., War of 1812.
GRANDPARENTS:  Elizabeth Hoffman and Henry Back, Sr.    
SPOUSE:  Rachel Caudill, first wife.  Nancy Dixon, second wife.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:  Kentucky.
RANK:  Private.
BRANCH OF SERVICE:  Cavalry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:  Company H, 13th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
DATE OF DEATH:  21 January 1925.
CEMETERY:  Dickson Cemetery, Blackey, Letcher County, Kentucky.  AKA, Back – Dixon Cemetery.
SOURCES:  Census.  Findagrave.  Kentucky Death Records.  U. S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865.  U. S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles. 















BACK, DAVID (1843-1864), CAPTURED AT THE SECOND BATTLE OF CYNTHIANA,  PRISONER OF WAR, DIED OF SMALLPOX IN CAPTIVITY AT CAMP DOUGLAS UNION PRISON, ILLINOIS, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN:  Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.  
DATE OF BIRTH:  15 February 1843 in Jeremiah, Letcher County, Kentucky.
PARENTS:  Sarah Caudill and John Back.
GRANDPARENTS:  Susannah Maggard and Henry Back, Jr., War of 1812.
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS:  Elizabeth Hoffman and Henry Back, Sr.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:  Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE:  18 October 1862 in Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.
DISCHARGE DATE:  6 December 1864, Discharged By Death in a Prisoner of War Camp of Small Pox.
RANK:  Private.
BRANCH OF SERVICE:  Infantry.  
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:  Company A and H, 10th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
CAPTURED BY FEDERAL TROOPS AT CYNTHIANA, KENTUCKY ON 12 JUNE 1864.
U. S. CIVIL WAR PRISONER OF WAR RECORDS:
~ 18 July 1864, Sent to Union Military Prison, Covington, Kentucky.
~ Union Military Prison, Louisville, Kentucky.  Discharged 30 July 1964; Sent to Camp Douglas Prison Camp.
~ 1 August 1864, Received at Camp Douglas Prison Camp, Chicago, Illinois.
~ 6 December 1864, Died of SMALL POX at Camp Douglas Prison Camp, Chicago, Illinois.
DATE OF DEATH:  6 December 1864, Prisoner of War Small Pox Death, Died in Captivity in Union Military Prison, Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois.
STATUS:  Died of Small Pox, Prisoner of War.
FIRST BURIAL:  Currently Unknown.
CEMETERY:  Confederate Mound, Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
MONUMENT:  Confederate Mound Monument, Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
SOURCES:  Census.  U. S. Civil War Death Record.  Findagrave.  Register of Prisoners of War Received at Military Prison.  U. S. Civil War Prisoner of War Records.  U. S. Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records.

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BATES

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SONS OF SARAH WALTHROP / WALDRUP AND JOHN WALLIS BATES:
HENDERSON BATES, PRISONER OF WAR, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, CIVIL WAR.
JAMES BATES, MURDERED BY UNION HOME GUARDS, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, CIVIL WAR.
JESSE BATES, CAPTURED, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, CIVIL WAR.
MARTIN VAN BUREN BATES, WOUNDED IN ACTION, PRISONER OF WAR, CSA, CIVIL WAR.
ROBERT “ROBIN” BATES, PRISONER OF WAR, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, CIVIL WAR.
URIAH BATES, DIED OF DISEASE, MEASLES, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, CIVIL WAR.

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BATES, HENDERSON (ca 1832 – 1866), PRISONER OF WAR, INJURED IN THE LINE OF DUTY, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN: Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
DATE OF BIRTH: circa 1832, Kona, Letcher County, Kentucky.
PARENTS: Sarah Walthrop / Waldrup and John Wallis Bates.
SPOUSE: Martha Robinson, married 1850.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE: 4 October 1862.
DISCHARGE DATE: 12 April 1865.
RANK: Captain.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Cavalry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Company D, 13th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
CAPTURED, PRISONER OF WAR ROLL-CALL BOOK, PRISON NO. 3, CAMP CHASE, OHIO: Page 8, # 39, Bates, Henderson.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:
DATE OF DEATH: 1866.
CEMETERY: Bates Family Cemetery, Thornton, Letcher County, Kentucky.
SOURCES: Census. Findagrave. Kentucky Marriage Records. Potter Family; yeahpot.com. U. S. Civil War Draft Registration Records, 1863-1865. U. S. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865.
NOTE: I placed Henderson Bates on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.


BATES, JAMES (1823 – 1864), TORTURED AND MURDERED BY UNION HOME GUARDS AT THE BATES HOMEPLACE, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN: Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
DATE OF BIRTH: 1823 in Kentucky.
PARENTS: Sarah Walthrop / Waldrup and John Wallis Bates.
SPOUSE: Elizabeth Adams.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE: 1 November 1861 in Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.
DISCHARGE DATE: 11 April 1864. Murdered By Union Home Guards. Oral History Source: The Murder of James Bates and the Battle of Cranesnest by Patty Brashear, Ben Luntz and Roe Wright, c. 2010.
RANK: Private. Sergeant.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Mounted Infantry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Company F, 5th Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:
DATE OF DEATH: 11 April 1864, Kona, Letcher County, Kentucky. Tortured And Murdered By Union Home Guards.
CEMETERY: Bates Cemetery, Kona, Letcher County, Kentucky.
SOURCES: American Civil War Soldiers. Census. Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War, 1861-1865. Findagrave. U. S. Civil War Soldiers. U. S. Civil War Soldiers and Profiles, 1861-1865. U. S. Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1816-1865.
NOTE: I placed James Bates on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.


​BATES, JESSE (1821 – 1882), CAPTURED, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN: Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
DATE OF BIRTH: 2 January 1821 in Virginia.
PARENTS: Sarah Walthrop / Waldrup and John Wallis Bates.
SPOUSE: Elizabeth H. Asbury, married 28 December 1846 in Virginia.
SPOUSE: Isabelle Victoria Berry, married in 1874 in Letcher County, Kentucky.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE: 1 November 1861 in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
DISCHARGE DATE:
RANK: Private, in. Sergeant, out.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Infantry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Company F, 5th Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
MUSTER ROLL OF COMPANY F, FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY: # 16, Jesse Bates, Fifth, Sergeant, Enlisted at Whitesburg, Kentucky on November 1, 1861 for a tern of one year. #16, Captured.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:
DATE OF DEATH: 12 February 1882.
CEMETERY: Berry Cemetry, Scott County, Virginia.
SOURCES: American Civil War Soldiers. Census. Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War. Findagrave. Kentucky Confederate Volunteers. Kentucky Marriage Records. National Park Service Soldiers. Report of the Adjutant General. U. S. American Civil War Regiments, 1861-1866. U. S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865. U. S. Civil War Soldiers Records And Profiles, 1861-1865. Virginia Compiled Marriages.
NOTE: I placed Jesse Bates on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.


BATES, MARTIN VAN BUREN (1837 – 1919), FOUR TIMES WOUNDED IN ACTION, CAPTURED, PRISONER OF WAR, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN: Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Gilford and Seville in Medina County, Ohio.
DATE OF BIRTH:  Born a Giant on 9 November 1837 in Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.
PARENTS: Sarah Walthrop / Waldrup and John Wallis Bates.
~ On the 7 September 1850 Census, Sarah was age 57, a widow, born in North Carolina. Martin was age 12 on his last birthday in November 1849.
SPOUSE: ~ Anna Haining Swan, born in Nova Scotia, married 17 June 1871 in Saint Martin In The Fields, Westminister, London, England. Anna, “Giantess of Nova Scotia,” and Martin “Kentucky River Giant,” were received by Queen Victoria. Anna and Martin were listed in the Guinness World Records. Their daughter was born and died in 1872. Their son was born and died om 1879.
SPOUSE: ~ Annette Lavonne Weatherby, married 23 October 1889 in Miami County, Ohio.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE: September 1861. SECOND ENLISTMENT: 1863.
DISCHARGE DATE: 6 July 1865.
RANK: First Lieutenant. Captain.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Mounted Infantry.
COMBAT ORANIZATION: ~ Company A, 5th Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry. ~ Company A and C, French’s Virginia Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Virginia State Line.
~ Company A, 7th Confederate Cavalry Battalion; resigned July 19, 1864; captured at Piketown, Kentucky on April 15, 1863; paroled.
~ Cohoon’s Battalion Infantry; (Sixth Battalion, North Carolina Infantry); Grayson County Militia.
~ Confederate States Army, American Civil War Between The States.
WOUNDED IN ACTION: Thrice Wounded by a Ball and Once Wounded by a Sabre.
PRISONER OF WAR: Camp Chase Union Prison Camp, Ohio.
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, U. S. UNION ARMY PRISONER OF WAR RECORDS, 1861-1865:
~ PRISONER RECEIVED FROM CINCINNATI, OHIO, APRIL 23, 1863: Bates, Martin V., First Lieutenant, French Virginia Battalion, Captured in Piketon (now Pikeville), Pike County, Kentucky on 15 April 1863, six feet and 10 inches tall, received April 22, 1863, exchanged May 13, 1863.
~ ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PRISONERS OF WAR AT CAMP CHASE, OHIO: Bates, Robert, page 72. Bates, Martin V., page 72.  ~ COMMISSIONED OFFICERS:
< Bates, Robert, Captain, French’s Virginia Battalion, captured at Piketon (now Pikeville), Pike County, Kentucky on April 15, 1863, Sent For Exchange on May 13, 1863 at City Point, Virginia.
< Bates, Martin V., First Lieutenant, French’s Virginia Battalion, Company C, Captured at Piketon, (now Pikeville), Pike County, Kentucky on April 15, 1863, Sent For Exchange on May 13, 1863 at City Point, Virginia.
< Pond, Isaac M., First Lieutenant, Company D, Captured at Piketon, (now Pikeville), Pike County, Kentucky on April 15, 1863, Sent For Exchange on May 13, 1863 at City Point, Virginia.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES: American Civil War.
DATE OF DEATH: 7 January 1919 in Seville, Medina County, Ohio.
CEMETERY: Mound Hill Cemetery, Seville, Medina County, Ohio.
SOURCES: Census. 1890 Veterans Schedules. Findagrave. National Park Service Soldiers and Battle Units. Ohio County Marriage Records. U. S. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865. U. S. Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865. U. S. Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865. West Minister, London, England Marriage Records.
NOTE: I placed Martin Van Buren Bates on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

  

​BATES, ROBERT “ROBIN” (1825 – 1921), PRISONER OF WAR, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN: Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Lane Fork, Rockhouse and Democrat in Letcher County, Kentucky.
DATE OF BIRTH: 24 August 1825, Kentucky.
PARENTS: Sarah Walthrop / Waldrup and John Wallis Bates.
SPOUSES: Elizabeth Bentley, married 1888 in Letcher County, Kentucky.
OCCUPATION: Kentucky State Representative.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE: 1863.
DISCHARGE DATE:
RANK: Captain.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Cavalry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: French’s Virginia Battalion. Company A, 7th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War. Cohoon’s Battalion Infantry (Sixth Battalion, North Carolina Infantry); Grayson County Militia.
CONFEDERATE PRISONERS OF WAR RECEIVED FROM CINCINNATI, OHIO:
Captain Robert Bates, French’s Virginia Battalion, Captured at Piketon (now Pikeville), Pike County, Kentucky on April 15, 1863.
CAPTURED, PRISONER OF WAR, CONFEDERATE COMMISSIONED OFFICERS: Captain Robert Bates, French’s Virginia Battalion, captured at Piketon (now Pikeville), Pike County, Kentucky on April 15, 1863. Sent for Exchange on May 13, 1863 at City Point, Virginia.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:
DATE OF DEATH: 24 September 1921, Letcher County, Kentucky.
CEMETERY: Bates Cemetery, Colson, Letcher County, Kentucky.
SOURCES: Appalachia Crossroads The Caudill Family, Volume 2, 3, 4 by Clayton Cox, c. 1993. Census. Findagrave. U. S. Civil War Prisoners of War Records, 1861-1865. U. S. Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865.
NOTE: I placed Robert “Robin” Bates on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry. 

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​BATES, URIAH (ca 1828 – 1862), DIED OF DISEASE – MEASLES, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN: Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
DATE OF BIRTH: circa 1828 in Kentucky.
PARENTS: Sarah Walthrop / Waldrup and John Wallis Bates.
SPOUSE: Lettisha “Lettie” Adams, married 1849.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE: 1 November 1861 at Whitesburg, Kentucky.
DISCHARGE DATE: 1 May 1862 in Holston Virginia, Died of Disease, Measles.
RANK: Private.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Mounted Infantry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Kentucky Infantry Battalion. Company F, 5th Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
~ Muster Roll, 30 April 1862: Sick, in the Hospital.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:
DATE OF DEATH: 1 May 1862, Camp Wilson, Gate City, Virginia.
CAUSE OF DEATH: Died Of Disease, Measles at Camp Wilson Hospital, Holston, Virginia, American Civil War.
CEMETERY: Wolf Cemetery, Weber City, Scott County, Virginia. Buried on a farm.
SOURCES: Adjutant General’s Report. Appalachia Crossroads The Caudill Family, Volume 2, 3, 4 by Clayton Cox, c. 1993. Census. Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War, 1861-1865. Findagrave. Kentucky Confederate Volunteers. National Park Service Soldiers and Battle Units; nps.gov. U. S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865. U. S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865. U. S. Confederate Soldiers Compiled Records, 1816-1865.
NOTE: I placed Uriah Bates on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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SON OF ELIZABETH ADAMS AND JAMES BATES:
            HENRY C. BATES, PRISONER OF WAR, SHOT BY UNION HOME GUARDS, ESCAPED,               CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.

​BATES, HENRY C. (ca 1844 –     ), PRISONER OF WAR, SHOT BY UNION HOME GUARDS, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN: Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
DATE OF BIRTH: circa 1844 in Kentucky.
PARENTS: Elizabeth Adams and James Bates.
GRANDPARENTS: Sarah Walthrop / Waldrup and John Wallis Bates.
SPOUSE: Rachel Lee.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE: 4 October 1862 in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
DISCHARGE DATE:
RANK: Private.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Cavalry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Company A, French’s Battalion, Virginia Infantry. Company D, 13th Regiment “Ben Caudill’s Army”, Kentucky Cavalry. Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
CAPTURED, PRISONER OF WAR: 15 April 1863 at Piketon, (now Pikeville), Pike County, Kentucky.
CONFEDERATE PRISONER OF WAR:
~ Henry C. Bates, Private, French’s Virginia Battalion, Received on April 22, 1863.
~ Henry C. Bates, Private, Company A, French Virginia Battalion, Captured at Piketon (now Pikeville), Pike County, Kentucky on April 15, 1863; Sent for Exchange May 13, 1863 at City Point, Virginia.
~ Prisoners Received From Cincinnati, Ohio: Henry C. Bates, Private, Company A, French Virginia Battalion, captured at Piketon (now Pikeville), Pike County, Kentucky on April 15, 1863.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:
APRIL 11, 1864, UNION HOME GUARDS ATTACKED AT THE BATES HOMEPLACE. DESPITE BEING SHOT IN THE LEG, HENRY MANAGED TO ESCAPE. HENRY’S FATHER, JAMES WAS TORTURED AND MURDERED. Oral History Source: The Murder of James Bates and the Battle of Cranesnest by Patty Brashear, Ben Luntz and Roe Wright, c. 2010.
DATE OF DEATH:
CEMETERY:
SOURCES: Census. Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War, 1861-1865. National Park Service Soldiers. U. S. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865. U. S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865.
NOTE: I placed Henry C. Bates on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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CAMPBELL

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CAMPBELL, JOHN (1838-1918), CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN:  Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
OTHER RESIDENCE:  Perry County, Kentucky.  Indian Bottom and River in Letcher County, Kentucky.     
DATE OF BIRTH:  4 September 1838 in Kentucky.
PARENTS:  Elizabeth “Bettie” Cornett and William Hartly Campbell II, War of 1812.
GRANDPARENTS:  Nancy Ann Couch and William Campbell I, War of 1812.
GRANDPARENTS:  Rhoda Gilliam and William Jesse “Billy” Cornett, American Revolutionary War.
SPOUSE:  Harriet Watts, married 21 September 1859.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:  Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE:  10 June 1862 in Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.  29 August 1862. 
RANK:  Private.
BRANCH OF SERVICE:  Cavalry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:  Company C, 13th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
DATE OF DEATH:  14 February 1918, Letcher County, Kentucky.
CEMETERY:  Campbell Cemetery, Ulvah, Letcher County, Kentucky.
SOURCES:  American Civil War Soldiers.  Appalachia Crossroads The Caudill Family, Volume 2, 3, 4 by Clayton R. Cox, 1993.  Census.  Findagrave.  Kentucky Death Records.  Kentucky Marriage Records.  U. S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865.  U. S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles.
NOTE:  I placed my third-great-granduncle, John Campbell on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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CAUDILL

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FIVE SONS OF RACHEL CORNETT AND JOHN A. CAUDILL:

BENJAMIN EVERAGE CAUDILL.  DAVID JESSE CAUDILL.  JOHN DIXON CAUDILL. 

SAMUEL C. CAUDILL.  STEPHEN CAUDILL. 



















​CAUDILL, BENJAMIN EVERAGE (1830-1889), COLONEL OF “CAUDILL’S REGIMENT”, BATTLE OF LEATHERWOOD, BATTLE OF MARION, PRISONER OF WAR, ONE OF THE “IMMORTAL 50”, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN:  Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
OTHER RESIDENCE:  Laurel Springs, Cranberry, Allegany County, North Carolina.  Pigeon Roost, Clay County, Kentucky.
DATE OF BIRTH:  11 January 1830 in Kentucky.
PARENTS:  Rachel Cornett and John A. Caudill.
GRANDPARENTS:  Sarah Adams and Stephen Caudill.
GRANDPARENTS:  Mary Ann Everage and William Cornett, American Revolutionary War.
BROTHER:  David Jesse Caudill, Wounded In Action by Union Army Soldier, Claibe Jones, in the Battle of Big Leatherwood, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
SPOUSE:  Martha Lucinda Asbury.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:  Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE:  1 November 1861, as a Captain, in Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.
DISCHARGE DATE:  2 November 1862.  At the end of the Civil War in 1865.
RANK:  1 November 1816, Captain.  2 November 1862, Full Colonel.
BRANCH OF SERVICE:  Cavalry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:  Captain, Company F, 5th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.  10th Kentucky Mounted Rifles.  Colonel, Company S, 13th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
U.S. CIVIL WAR PRISONER OF WAR RECORDS, 1861 – 1865:
~ July 7, 1863, Captured at Gladeville, Virginia by Union Forces.
~ ca mid-July 1863, Prisoner of War, Kemper Barracks.
~ Camp Chase.  Confederate, B. E. Caudill, Colonel, 10th Infantry, Kentucky Cavalry.
~ October 1863, Transferred to Johnsons Island.
~ 9 February 1864, Transferred to Baltimore.
~ Transferred to Fort Delaware.
~ Transferred to Fort McHenry.
~ Transferred to Hilton Head, South Carolina.
~ “At Hilton Head, Ben was chained in the lower decks of the U.S.S. DRAGOON for 40 days, being guarded by the U.S.S. WABASH and became one of the “Immortal 50” Prisoners of War, who were predecessors of the “Immortal 600” Prisoners of War.”
~ 3 August 1864, released from captivity in a prisoner of war exchange.
~ 17 September 1864, assumed military command again.
Source:  The Life and Times of Colonel Ben Caudill by Dave Chaltas, Oct 1, 2016, The Civil War Courier, civilwarcourier.com.  13th Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A.:  Caudill’s Army by Ben Caudill Camp NO. 1629, published 2016.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:  Battle of Leatherwood in Kentucky.  Battle of Marion in Virginia.
DATE OF DEATH:  11 February 1889 in Claiborne County, Tennessee.
CEMETERY:  Slate Hill Cemetery, Fariston, Laurel County, Kentucky.
SOURCES:  Appalachia Crossroads The Caudill Family, Volume 2, 3, 4 by Clayton R. Cox, 1993.  Autobiography of Old Claibe Jones, 1915.  Census.  Findagrave.  The Life and Times of Colonel Ben Caudill by Dave Chaltas, October 1, 2016; civilwarcourier.com.  13th Kentucky Cavalry, C. S. A.:  Caudill’s Army by Ben Caudill Camp No. 1629, April 30, 2016.  U. S. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1816-1865.  U. S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865.  U. S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865.  U. S. Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865.  
NOTE:  I placed my first-cousin-four-times-removed, Benjamin Everage Caudill on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.






















CAUDILL, DAVID JESSE (1839-1907), WOUNDED IN ACTION BY UNION ARMY SOLDIER, CLAIBE JONES, IN THE BATTLE OF LEATHERWOOD, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN:  Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
OTHER RESIDENCE:  Grayson and Willard in Carter County, Kentucky.   
DATE OF BIRTH:  9 March 1839.
PARENTS:  Rachel Cornett and John A. Caudill.
GRANDPARENTS:  Sarah Adams and Stephen Caudill.
GRANDPARENTS:  Mary Ann Everage and William Cornett, American Revolutionary War.
BROTHER:  Benjamin Everage Caudill, Prisoner of War, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
SPOUSE:  Margaret S. “Maggie” Frizell.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:  Kentucky.
RANK:  Lieutenant Colonel.
BRANCH OF SERVICE:  Cavalry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:  Company F and S, 13th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:  Battle of Leatherwood.
DATE OF DEATH:  8 April 1907.
OLIVE HILL NEWSPAPER, 10 APRIL 1907:  “... David was found ... hanging from his barn loft by harness reins.”
CEMETERY:  Lindsey Chapel Cemetery, Pactolus, Carter County, Kentucky.
SOURCES:  Appalachia Crossroads The Caudill Family, Volume 2, 3, 4 by Clayton R. Cox, 1993.  Census.  Findagrave.  U. S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865.  U. S. Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records.
NOTE:  I placed my first-cousin-four-times-removed, David Jesse Caudill on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.




















CAUDILL, JOHN DIXON (1836-1917), CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN:  Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
DATE OF BIRTH:  6 October 1836 in Kentucky.
PARENTS:  Rachel Cornett and John A. Caudill.
GRANDPARENTS:  Sarah Adams and Stephen Caudill.
GRANDPARENTS:  Mary Ann Everage and William Cornett, American Revolutionary War.
SPOUSE:  Mary Ann Green.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:  Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE:  29 August 1862 in Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.  
RANK:  First Sergeant.
BRANCH OF SERVICE:  Cavalry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:  Company B, 13th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
DATE OF DEATH:  27 June 1917.
CEMETERY:  Sandlick Creek Cemetery, Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.
SOURCES:  Appalachia Crossroads The Caudill Family, Volume 2, 3, 4 by Clayton R. Cox, 1993.  Census.  Findagrave.  U. S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865.  U. S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles.  U. S. Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records.                                                                                                                                                              NOTE:  I placed my first-cousin-four-times-removed, John Dixon Caudill on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.























CAUDILL, SAMUEL C. (1831-1907), CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN:  Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.  
DATE OF BIRTH:  29 December 1831 in Kentucky.
PARENTS:  Rachel Cornett and John A. Caudill.
GRANDPARENTS:  Sarah Adams and Stephen Caudill.
GRANDPARENTS:  Mary Ann Everage and William Cornett, American Revolutionary War.
SPOUSE:  Mary Ann Greer, first wife.  Letitia Meade, second wife.  Sarah J. Hart, third wife.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:  Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE:  1 November 1861 in Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.  .
RANK:  Private.  Promoted to Full Second Lieutenant on 27 February 1863.  
BRANCH OF SERVICE:  Cavalry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:  Company A, 13th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
DATE OF DEATH:  29 October 1907, Letcher County, Kentucky.
CEMETERY:  Hale and Hart Cemetery, Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.
SOURCES:  Appalachia Crossroads The Caudill Family, Volume 2, 3, 4 by Clayton R. Cox, 1993.  Census.  Findagrave.  U. S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865.  U. S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles.  U. S. Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records.   
NOTE:  I placed my first-cousin-four-times-removed, Samuel C. Caudill on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.






















CAUDILL, STEPHEN J. (1826-1906), CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN:  Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA.
DATE OF BIRTH:  18 November 1826 in Kentucky.
PARENTS:  Rachel Cornett and John A. Caudill.
GRANDPARENTS:  Sarah Adams and Stephen Caudill.
GRANDPARENTS:  Mary Ann Everage and William Cornett, American Revolutionary War.
SPOUSE:  Elizabeth Adams.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:  Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE:  29 August 1862 in Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.
RANK:  Private.
BRANCH OF SERVICE:  Cavalry.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:  Company B, 13th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate States Army, American Civil War.
DATE OF DEATH:  26 July 1906.
CEMETERY:  Westwood Cemetery, Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky.
SOURCES:  Appalachia Crossroads The Caudill Family, Volume 2, 3, 4 by Clayton R. Cox, 1993.  Census.  Findagrave.  U. S. Civil War Soldiers Records And Profiles, 1861-1865.   
NOTE:  I placed my first-cousin-four-times-removed, Stephen J. Caudill on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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