2Q - November 06, 2014
[:House Divided other Bath County nora-
: nt. from I. 19 bles, not previously men-
thd clerk's office was ran- tioned, who served in the
American Civil War.:
acked. Vital records from
e clerk's office were piled
"m the street and lit on fire;
meanwhile, County Judge
Thomas B. Hamilton was
agged out into the street
arid whipped by a leather
srfip by the marauders.
0.b horrified residents
-o
were set free after some
time and the rebels rode off
ishscathed toward Sharps-
burg. On December 31,
t_b_ion forces encountered
a.group of rebel guerrillas
near Sharpsburg, sending
the rebels scurrying off in
all directions. The Sharps-
burg community had its
Share of notable veterans
during the Civil War.
Edward Owings Guer-
rant was born in Sharps-
hrg and was a Confeder-
captain under General
lyrgan, and later served
oh, General Humphrey
Marshall's staff in V'trginia.
r the war, he became a
doctor, then a Presbyterian
minister in the mountain
colmfies in Eastern Ken-
tacky. Guerrant wrote an
account of his time with
General John Hunt Mor-
gan, along with a few theo-
logical works.
William Sharp, a direct
descendant of the found-
ing fathers of Sharpsburg,
served as a captain in the
Union Army and Doctor
Job n Thruston Catlett, also
i Sharpsburg native son,
was a surgeon in Robert
E. iLee's Army and was at
Gettysburg. These two ex-
ples showed the deep di-
rvides among neighbors of
mall town Kentucky, and
oughout the nation dur-
ing the American Civil War.
: As the war came close
i:o:an end, skirmishes and
mids throughout Bath
:C6unty dwindled. A skir-
mish along Slate Creek
hear Peeled Oak and How-
ard's Mill is recorded on
ch 9, 1865, but nothing
0fsignificance followed.
" A few isolated incidents
are recorded during and
after the war years in Bath
C0hnty; tales of lynchings
s of division among
e who supported their
r.ective side. One inci-
gt near Wyoming, seven
miles northeast of Owings-
, was the attempted
lynching of Thomas Daw-
Son. A group of Union
troops accused Dawson of
.knowing the whereabouts
of some rebel sympathiz-
ers and was hanged for not
disclosing their alleged lo-
cation. A short time later,
Dawson was cut down, but
boe a scar from the rope
for'the rest of his life. There
was a public execution of a
guerrilla on February 10,
1863, in Owingsville. Major
Stivers (Union) had Levi
Green Sexton, a member of
the 2nd Battalion Kentucky
Mounted Rifles, shot, with
little, if none, fanfare. Near
Reynoldsville, A. Powers,
a private in the Confeder-
ate Army, had came back
home during the war. He
hid out from Union troops
near White Oak and was
only captured when his
sisters were followed while
Kfinging him food. Powers
as killed by the Federal
oops; his gun, which was
hiaden in a tree, was recov-
d by the sisters and kept
¢¢ithin the family until the
a 1800's when the fam-
jlFThome burned. Another
cident was when guer-
,rlla rebels found and killed
ahford Shackleford near
Preston for being a Union
kympathizer. Even after the
' .ai', tensions among the
ulace were high, even
e Bath County area.
a Hunt's writings tell
Barber who served
e Confederate Army
killed while working
,his farm by a group of
lsked men, simply for his
lvice and alignment with
Confederacy.
elow is a list of some
- David & Trumbo from
White Oak, Quartermaster,
24th Kentucky Volunteer
Infantry Regiment, later be-
came a prominent lawyer in
the Sharpsburg and Bethel
area. He was twice elected
sheriff of Bath County be-
fore the war.
-Dr William E. Phillips
was a surgeon with the
Union's 39th Kentucky
Volunteer Infantry. He was
involved in the Battle of
Cynthiana and prevented
the amputation of Judge
Charles Hargis' arm. Har-
gis was then a Captain in
the 10th Kentucky CSA
Infantry and was always
grateful for the doctor's
regard and treatment for
his dire wound. Dr. Phil-
lips practiced medicine in
Stepstone and later Wyo-
ming. He was widely re-
spected as a doctor in Bath
and Fleming Counties. On
twist of fate, Judge Hargis,
the man injured at Cynthi-
ana, came to Owingsville
to represent a neighbor-
ing county sheriff who was
charged in killing the same
county's clerk. Dr. Phillips
approached Judge Hargis
and asked if he had been
at the Battle of Cynthiana.
The judge raised his sleeve
and showed his scar, ac-
knowledging he was the
doctor's wartime patient.
The two became friends
and Dr. Phillips visited
Judge Hargis many times
throughout the remainder
of their years.
-Colonel Lafayette North
from Salt Lick was a Union
veteran of several battles
and was with Grant at the
Appomattox Surrender. He
was a Captain with Compa-
ny E, 24th KY Infantry, lat-
er promoted to Lt, Colonel.
-James K. Jackson, Sgt,
Co. I, 24th KY Infantry, of
Olympia was the Union
color bearer and led the
charge at Resaca, Georgia,
displaying great valor while
under intense fire. He also
saw action at Shiloh and
Perryville.
-C.H. Hoon, Company F,
2nd Battalion, Kentucky
Mounted Rifles (CSA) was
attached to General John
Hunt Morgan's Army,
later became a prominent
Owingsville businessman
and jailer for Bath County.
Hoon operated the under-
taker and hardware store
that stood on the spot of
the Citizen's Bank in down-
town Owingsville.
-John S. Anderson of
Odessa (White Oak Com-
munity), Company B, 10th
Kentucky Cavalry (USA)
later became postmaster
for the Odess a community.
-Confederate Captain
George W. Conner, Co. I,
5th KY Mounted Infantry,
later appointed It. Col. of
the 5th KY Mounted Infan-
try, fought at the Battle of
Middle Creek. He was cap-
tured by the Union Army
commanded by future pres-
ident James/k Garfield in
Prestonsburg, January 11,
1862 while in a hospital suf-
feting from typhoid fever.
He later rejoined his unit
and was severely wounded
at Jonesboro, Tennessee
August 10, 1864. Conner
was elected to State Sen-
ate in 1869, serving Bath,
Bourbon, Montgomery and
Clark Counties. He died
from injuries he sustained
from a fall at the court-
house March 21, 1894.
-Captain Fountain Good-
paster, Corporal and later
Captain, Co. I, 24th KY
Infantry, served with the
Union Army and fought
at Shiloh, Resaca, Atlanta,
and Knoxville.
Hiram Hawkins. was
born on September 9, 1826,
near Owingsville. He was
the son of Thomas and
Mary Dean. In 1852, he was
elected Colonel of the Bath
House Divided
cont. on pg. 22
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