Civil War

George W. Willis, Jr. of Rankins Creek, Lawrence County, wrote to his family while serving in Company E, Fifth West Virginia Infantry near Charleston WV. Later he was captured and held four months in Libby Prison until Richmond was taken by Federal troops.

Paschal F. Gillette of Kanauga, 80, died of pneumonia Friday. He was an ex-recorder of Lawrence county, was one of Abraham Lincoln’s bodyguards

“SAVED THE LIFE OF A GOOD SOLDIER”

The following is taken from “History and Life of John A Bowen”
(As Written by Himself On Thanksgiving Day, November 29, 1928.)” Proctorville, Ohio.

That our neighboring town of Guyandotte was the most venomous and prolific nest of Secession Vipers in all Western Virginia is undisputed.

Many of Lawrence County, Ohio men served in the WV Army during the Civil War. This is history of WV Civil War Troops so help the researcher understand

William H. H. Adkins was born 1830 in Kentucky. Sept.1,1850 he married Lucinda Wiley in Louisa, Lawrence Co. Ky. She was the daughter of Hezekiah Wiley

List of Deaths of Soldiers from Company H, 6th Ohio Cavalry, Organized at Ironton, O., 1861. Lieut. Commander T. Steece, U. S. N., entered the service

The list of the men of the 9th WV Infantry who were released from the Salisbury Prison some were from Lawrence County

-Conscience stricken because he had stolen chickens during the Civil War and desiring to square accounts, before it is too late, “Tim” Crook,

Ironton Register, September 29, 1898 – “Hon. Wayne Ferguson and wife are the guests of Mrs. Ferguson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly – Kenova Reporter”

We never see the name of Wayne Ferguson that a Civil War incident does not intrude. In those days, especially the earlier days of the rebellion, war’s tumults were common along the river; and vague alarms came of rebels gathering here and there and meditating an attack on Ironton.

Published in the Ironton Register, on July 21, 1864, guerrillas raided Ohio to rob L.D. Russell’s store, at the mouth of Indian Guyan (Bradrick, Ohio). The article describes what occurred and the response from area residents. Jimmie Epling abstracted this story for The Lawrence Register website.

Reminiscences of Richmond During the Civil War was published on Dec. 21, 1899, and was abstracted by Peggy A. Wells for The Lawrence Register website. Southern people do not become reminiscent very...

John Zimmerman was my grandmother’s adopted father. After my grandmother’s mother died shortly after childbirth, her father, William C. Dillon, couldn’t

Winters, Isaac

Priv., Co. F, 10 Kentucky Cav.
Age 31 years
Appears on Company Muster-in Roll of the organization named above. Roll dated Covington, KY.,

John Wells, the son of Richard and Susannah (Hutchison) Wells, was born in Scott County, Virginia, about 1815. Coming to Kentucky with his parents in the 1820’s, he settled on Oak Log Fork of Daniel’s Creek where, on May 4, 1836, he entered a