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Excerpts
From Chapter Ten
Disappointments
Are Great!
(Follow
The Money, the
Internet)
- "Living
Down The Curse and Jinx of the
Civil War - at
Teléph-on-délgreen"
By Troy
Cory-Stubblefield /
Josie
Cory
Frank Albert Stubblefield,
1907-1977, second cousin of Troy
Cory-Stubblefield, was a member
of the U.S. Congress, House of
Representative, (D-Kentucky).
Frank was born in Murray,
Calloway County, Ky., April 5,
1907. His father was the brother
of Nathan B. Stubblefield. Frank
attended the public schools;
student at University of Arizona
in 1927; B.S., University of
Kentucky College of Commerce,
1932; owned and operated the
retail drug business in Murray,
Ky., in 1933.
----- He was a member of
city council, Murray, Ky.,
1939-1942; served as a lieutenant
in the United States Navy from
1944 until September 1945; member
of the Kentucky Railroad
Commission, 1951-1955. Frank was
reelected to four-year term in
1955, but resigned December 31,
1958, to run for
Congress.
-----He was elected as a
Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and
to the seven succeeding
Congresses and served from
January 3, 1959, until his
resignation December 31, 1974;
unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1974 to the
Ninety-fourth Congress; resided
in Murray, Ky., where he died
October 14, 1977; interment in
Murray City
Cemetery.
-----According to Kentucky
official records, over 75,000
Kentuckians, including 23,000
African American volunteers,
fought for the Union during the
Civil War. This figure does not
include the estimated 12,000 men
who saw active service with
Kentucky's state forces, nor the
hundreds who belonged to
irregular units such as
self-styled "Home Guards" or
"Independent
Scouts."
-----The exact number of
Kentuckians who fought for the
Confederacy may never be known.
Historians estimate that between
25,000 and 40,000 Kentucky
volunteers served in the
Confederate army. The fact that
service records for many of these
individuals were either poorly
kept, lost, or destroyed during
the war presents a considerable
challenge for researchers.
///
Report
of the Adjutant General of the
State of Kentucky
-----This
two-volume report was published
in 1866 in conformity with a
resolution of the General
Assembly passed in 1864. The
report contains rosters of those
Kentucky units mustered into the
Federal service, U.S. Colored
Troops, Kentucky State Troops,
and Enrolled Militia. The report
also contains an alphabetical
list of officers and a complete
list of general and staff
officers from Kentucky. An index
is available on
microfilm.
-----For
additional information on U. S.
Colored Troops, Kentucky State
Troops, and Enrolled Militia,
researchers should contact the
Kentucky Department of Military
Affairs, Military Records and
Research Branch. The Library
contains the original records of
the Adjutant Generals Office,
including original muster rolls
and other records related to
Kentucky's Federal, State and
"Colored" volunteers.
-----Judicial
Records
-----Kentucky's
courts were flooded with
war-related actions both during
and after the conflict. Circuit
Court (or Commonwealth) Order
Books yield a multitude of
charges against Union soldiers. A
battle-related death or the
capture of property during
military operations frequently
resulted in indictments for
"murder", "grand larceny" or
"horse-stealing" once peace was
declared.
-----Civil
and Criminal Case Files may
contain detailed information on
these war-related charges,
including lengthy depositions by
participants and/or witnesses.
These files are especially
helpful in determining whether an
ancestor served in irregular
units such as "Home Guards,"
local organizations whose members
are rarely listed in official
records.
-----KDLA
has records available from many
of the circuit courts around the
state Governor's
Papers
-----Evidence
of war-related charges could mean
that a veteran submitted a
petition for pardon to the
Governor. KDLA houses the
official papers of Kentucky's
governors including those who
served during the war years. The
Papers of Governor Thomas E.
Bramlette contain petitions
stemming from the conflict. Many
petitions contain detailed
information on the war-time
incident that prompted the
indictment as well as copies of
the indictments themselves. These
records are particularly valuable
if the original case files and/or
indictments are not available.
The Governor's Executive
Journals, arranged
chronologically, provide dates
for these pardons.
CONFEDERATE
ARMY RECORDS
-----Like
their Union adversaries, many
Kentucky Confederates returned
home from the conflict to find
themselves under indictment for
war-related acts. Circuit court
case files and the papers of the
Governors also contain a
considerable amount of material
pertaining to Confederate
soldiers. These records may
provide names of Confederate
soldiers not found in official
records.
-----KDLA
also has other records that
relate specifically to Kentucky's
Confederate volunteers,
including: Compiled Service
Records
-----These
records consist of over 136 rolls
of microfilm pertaining to
Confederate soldiers in Kentucky
units. A microfilmed index
provides the name, rank and unit
of each soldier. Individual
service files typically consist
of abstracts from entries found
in muster rolls, returns,
rosters, payrolls, appointment
books, hospital registers, Union
prison registers, parole records,
and inspection reports. These
files may also contain papers
relating solely to the particular
soldier.
-----In
addition to the records of
Kentucky volunteers, the KDLA has
copies of the records of
Kentuckians who served in
Confederate commands that were
composed of volunteers from two
or more southern states. For
example, the 7th Confederate
Cavalry Battalion was composed of
companies recruited in eastern
Kentucky and western Virginia.
The names of these soldiers are
not included in the index for
Kentucky Confederate volunteers;
however, the name of each
Confederate volunteer is arranged
alphabetically under each
unit.
-----Records
do not contain information on
staff officers, or
pro-Confederate citizens.
Information on these groups may
be obtained from the National
Archives
-----Louisville
Military Prison
Registers
-----The Louisville
Military Prison was Kentucky's
primary facility for the
confinement of prisoners-of-war.
It served as a major shipping
point for prisoners bound for the
prison camps of Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois. Obtained from the
National Archives, these
microfilmed records cover the
period from 1862 to 1865. The
register for civilian prisoners
contains references to those
Kentuckians charged with treason,
spying or engaging in guerrilla
warfare.
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