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From: "Gerri Sutton" <>
Subject: [KYLAUREL-L] T. P. Coldwell part (2)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:45:32 -0400


OF THE EIGHT CHILDREN BORN TO MR. AND MRS. ANDREW COLDWELL BUT FOUR ARE
LIVING AT THE PRESENT TIME,-- DOCTOR COLDWELL, OF THIS REVIEW; JOHN
CRITTENDON COLDWELL, WHO IS ENGAGED IN FARMING AND STOCK RAISING NEAR SILVER
CREEK IN MADISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY; MRS. ELIZA COOK, AND MARGRET WILSON. DR.
THOMAS P. COLDWELL WAS REARED TO ADULT AGE IN LAUREL COUNTY. IN PRELIMINARY
EDUCATIONAL TRAINING HAVING CONSISTED OF SUCH ADVANTAGES AS WERE AFFORDED IN
THE OLD LAUREL COUNTY SEMINARY AT LONDON. ON THE 26Th OF AUGUST, 1861,
BEFORE
HE HAD REACHED HIS TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY, DR. COLDWELL ENLISTEDAS A SOLDIER IN
COMPANY K, THIRD KENTUCKY INFANTRY, OF WHICH HE WAS ELECTED SECOND
LIEUTENANT. THIS REGIMENT LATER BECAME THE SIXTH AND STILL LATER THE SEVENTH
KENTUCKY REGIMENT. HE SAW A GREAT DEAL OF ACTIVE SERVICE AT VARIOUS POINTS
IN
KENTUCKY, INCLUDING CAMP DICK ROBINSON, WILD CAT, LONDON, FLAT LICK AND
CUMBERLAND GAP. FROM THE LATTER PLACE THE SCENE OF ACTION WAS SHIFTED TO THE
KANAWHA VALLEY IN VIRGINIA. DR. COLDWELL TOOK HORSES FROM CUMBERLAND GAP TO
LEXINGTON, THENCE TO LOUISVILLE, PERRYVILLE, DANVILLE AND TO THE KANAWHA
VALLEY. FROM VIRGINIA HIS COMMAND WAS ORDERED TO THE VICINITY OF MEMPHIS,
TENNESSEE, WHERE THE REGIMENT REMAINED ABOUT ONE MONTH AND HENCE IT REMOVED
TO VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI. CONSEQUENTLY REMOVAL WAS MADE TO ARKANSAS WHERE
THE SOLDIERS PARTICIPATED IN A BATTLE, FROM THERE THE REGIMENT WENT TO
YOUNG'S POINT, OPPOSITE VICKSBURG, WHERE IT TOOK PART IN A NUMBER OF
SKIRMISHES UNTIL THE FALL OF VICKSBURG. THE SEVENTH KENTUCKY THEN WENT BY
STEAMBOAT TO NEW ORLEANS, WHERE THEY REMAINED UNTIL THE COMPANY VETERANIZED,
AT BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. IN (SIC) THEN BECAME COMPANY P (?),SEVENTH
KENTUCKY VOLUNTEER VETERANS, OF WHICH DR. COLDWELL BECAME CAPTAIN, THE
COMPANIES FROM THE TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT WERE MADE A PART OF THE SEVENTH AT
BATON ROUGE AND FROM THAT PLACE REMOVAL WAS TO CLINTON, LOUISIANA, NEAR
WHICH
PLACE A BATTLE WAS FOUGHT. THE SEVENTH KENTUCKY REMAINED AT CLINTON UNTIL
THE
CLOSE OF THE WAR, THERE THE SOLDIERS RECEIVED THEIR HONORABLE DISCHARGE AND
WERE MUSTERED OUT OF THE FEDERAL SERVICE. DR. COLDWELL WAS MUSTERED OUT
MAJOR
(?) OF FOUR COMPANIES, A, B, C AND D OF SEVENTH KENTUCKY VETERANS BATTALION,
HAVING SERVED FOR A PERIOD OF FOUR YEARS, (?) MONTHS AND FIFTEEN DAYS. DR.
COLDWELL WAS NOT SERIOUSLY WOUNDED AND SUFFERED COMPARATIVELY LITTLE ILLNESS
EXCEPT A YOUNG'S POINT. AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE WAR AND WHEN PEACE HAD AGAIN
BEEN ESTABLISHED HE RETURNED TO LONDON, KENTUCKY.




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