I arrived at Mount Sterling, and set foot “on my native heath,” in Bath
County, within a week after my departure from Indiana.
On October 7, 1862, I enlisted at Sharpsburg in Capt. G. M. Coleman’s
company, composed chiefly of my boyhood schoolmates and belonging to
Maj. Robert G. Stoner’s battalion of cavalry, which was subsequently,
in Middle Tennessee, consolidated with Maj. Wm. C. P. Breckinridge’s
battalion, thus forming the 9th Kentucky Regiment in Morgan’s command.
I was appointed sergeant major of Maj. Stoner’s battalion, and served
in that capacity until the consolidation mentioned, when I became
ordnance sergeant of the regiment. Since the War I have been promoted
to the position of “Colonel,” but I never was a Commissioned officer.