Raynors HCA 2019-05
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War-date State of Kentucky court document, 3pp. legal size folio, being an affidavit attesting to the loss Capt. Samuel McKee, Co. D, 14th Kentucky (Union) Cavalry, taken on Aug. 29, 1864 by Montgomery Co., Kentucky court clerk E. E. Garrett, reading, in very small part: "…appeared before me…Samuel McKee who states that on the 14th day of September 1862 he was Captain, D Company 14th Kentucky Cavalry…and in command of his company…at…Maysville, Kentucky…he was sent out the Maysville, Paris & Lexington turnpike…on picket duty with a squad of ten men…four miles out from Maysville…in the town of Washington, Mason County…he fell in with the advance of the Rebel Colonel [Richard M.] Gano's forces from forty to fifty strong and was compelled to fall back…in the skirmish & retreat through the town of Washington he lost six (6) of his men & seven (7) horses. He also lost his own horse…but escaped on foot…the loss was one of necessity, or…accidents of war and through no fault nor negligence of his own…said horse had not been furnished by the United States, nor purchased from any quartermaster…had not been appraised at the time he was ken into the service. Was a large big horse sixteen hands high and of the value of one hundred & fifty dollars…the regiment, at that time, was under command Captain Fountain Finnell under whose orders he was acting and that he was the next officer in rank…with the regiment. That Captain Fountain Finnell is dead [died May 5, 1863]…he makes this application for the purpose of obtaining pay for said horse under acts of Congress…he is…a loyal man…has served "Twenty months as a soldier…thirteen and a half months of this time in Richmond Prisons, [POW Mount Sterling, KY March 22, 1863 exchanged for CSA Capt. Cal. Morgan, April 30, 1864]…that he never…given aid and comfort to the so called Confederate States in any manner…". With personally sworn statements by two men formerly under McKee's command, Commissary Sergeant Thomas W. Parsons and Corporal Joseph Kinnards, verifying their ex-commanders story. SAMUEL McKEE (1833-1898) class of 1857 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; practiced law in Mount Sterling and Louisville, Kentucky; 1865-1869, U. S. Representative, Republican, from Kentucky; 1866, delegate to the Southern Loyalist Convention at Philadelphia; 1869-1871, pension agent, Louisville; 1898, died Louisville, Kentucky. Light soiling and toning, else VG
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