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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3.27 (search)
or smaller companies, were commanded about as follows: Captain Willis S. Roberts, of Scott county; Captain Frank Scott, of McLean county; Captain Ben. I. Monroe, of Frankfort; Captain Thomas Steele, of Woodford; Captain Thomas W. Thompson, of Louisville, and Captain William Blanchard, of Mason county. I think it probable that company H was also made up of two or three parts of companies, commanded respectively by William P. Bramlette, of Nicholas; Joe L. Robertson, of Montgomery, and Captain Hugh Henry, of Bourbon. It seemed for a time that it would be a difficult matter to organize the pieces into regular companies, because those who had enlisted in Kentucky were naturally desirous of serving under the officers who had brought them out, and after the expense and danger incident to the recruiting and transportation of the men, these officers wished to retain their rank and titles. Besides, when bidding adieu to their friends at home, they had pledged themselves to see to the comfor
Could see to peel a doughnut. --Hugh Henry, a former President of the Vermont Valley Railroad, while attending the recent session of the Legislature at Montpelier, made a remark to a friend that he "was a little deaf, but could see as well as ever." He afterward went to the hotel for dinner, and after being seated stuck his fork into a doughnut, and commenced to peel it, supposing it to be a potato. Young Meade, the Brattleboro' sculptor, being a witness of the "optical illusion," retiredriend that he "was a little deaf, but could see as well as ever." He afterward went to the hotel for dinner, and after being seated stuck his fork into a doughnut, and commenced to peel it, supposing it to be a potato. Young Meade, the Brattleboro' sculptor, being a witness of the "optical illusion," retired and produced a life-like sketch of Mr. Henry, while in the act of peeling the doughnut, and underneath was the following inscription: --"I am a little deaf, but can see as well as ever."