On July 10th, Captain Cox commented that it had been "remarkably warm today" and on the 11th he mentioned going into Athens on the back of a mule with fellow officers Lieutenants Byers (Company E) and Davis.*
Avery Byers, 2nd Lt., (E) resigned on June 15th the following year. He was one of three brothers that served in the Seventeenth alongside his father and his brother-in-law. He later joined the 35th Kentucky Mounted Infantry and rose to the rank of captain.**
Thomas D. Davis, 2nd. Lt .and Commissary officer of the Seventeenth resigned his commission in October, 1863.*** It was probably his association with Captain Cox that led to the entry for this day, July 12, 1862.
Nothing worthy of note. Reported to Division Headquarters, three miles distant, for the purpose of drawing clothing, and on reaching said place, our presence was not required as we received a wrong order from COL Stout. It was anything but pleasant to walk three miles in the warm sun on a dusty road. Consequently he received many a prayer from each commissioned officer in the company.*
Lt.Col. Stout was Col. McHenry's second in command.
* Cox, Samuel K., Civil War Diary 1862-1865 of Captain Samuel Kennedy Cox, courtesy of Daviess County Public Library, Kentucky Room, unpublished manuscript, p.19.
** Blackburn, John, A Hundred Miles, A Hundred Heartbreaks, 1972, self-published, LOC 72-93774, p.211.
*** Ibid, p.220
This blog chronicles the life of the 17th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in the American Civil War on the 150th aniversary of their service. Follow these volunteers through several major battles while experiencing both the pace and duration of the conflict. The posts may be read chronologically by accessing the archives and selecting them individually, beginning with the Preface.
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