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JAMES W MOSS a lifelong bachelor, was born in Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky in October 1822, to THOMAS S T (1787-1851) and JUDITH BULLOCK MOSS ?-1866). While they lived in Green County Kentucky JAMES W MOSS served as Captain of Company A 2nd Kentucky Infantry, in the Mexican War in 1847-48 in the McKee's Regiment. After the war, he came back to Green County, Kentucky. Upon his father's death in 1853, JAMES W MOSS moved the family to Columbus, Hickman County,. Kentucky. Here he became a successful merchant. With on the onset of war in 1861, he raised a company of young men from Hickman and Ballard counties in Kentucky and paid for their transportation to Clarksville, Tennessee. Here they mustered into the Confederate Army as Co. A, 2nd Kentucky. Infantry, They were the first unit to pitch a tent at Camp Boone. He was elected Captain of the Company. They fought in most of the bloodiest battle's in the south. They were part of the famed Kentucky Orphan Brigade. He was promoted to Major in October 1862. After the battle of Chickamauga, September 19-20, he was promoted to Lt. Colonel and assumed command of the regiment. On Oct.19, 1863 he was promoted to Colonel. He commanded the regiment until 31 August 1864 at Jonesboro, Georgia where he was wounded and captured. They took him to a field hospital of the Fifteenth Army Corps at Marietta, Georgia where his right arm was amputated. Due to loss of blood and infection he died on 19 September 1864. After the war, on 26 September 1888, the veterans of his regiment raised the money to have his remains brought from Marietta, Georgia to Frankfort, Kentucky. On their seventh annual reunion, the Orphan Brigade re-interred his body in the Frankfort Cemetery, where so many of Kentucky's famous dead sleep.
His relationship to me was Great Great Great -Uncle.
Submitted by: Gene Bolin