History of Muhlenberg County Kentucky United States of America

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Don Carlos Buell, soldier, was born near Marietta, Ohio, March 23, 1818. He was graduated from West Point in 1841; was assigned to the 3rd infantry, and raised to the grade of 1st lieutenant, June 18, 1846. He was brevetted captain for gallant conduct at Monterey, and major after Contreras and Churubusco, having received a severe wound in the latter engagement. From 1848 to 1861 he was on duty as assistant adjutant-general at Washington, and at various department headquarters. On May 11, 1861, he received a staff appointment as lieutenant-colonel, and on May 17 was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers. He was employed in the work of organizing the troops at Washington. In August, 1861, he was given command of a division of the army of the Potomac, and in November, 1861, superseded General Sherman in the command of the department of the Cumberland, reorganized into the department of the Ohio. An attack upon General Buell's pickets at Rowlett station, Dec. 17, 186l opened the Kentucky campaign, and Feb. 14, 1862, he occupied Bowling Green; February 23 he took possession of Gallatin, Tenn., and on the 25th of the same month entered Nashville. On March 21, 1862, he was made major-general of volunteers, and his department became a part of the department of the Mississippi under General Halleck. His opportune arrival at Shiloh on the evening of April 6, following, saved the troops under General Grant from a disastrous defeat. He assumed command of the army of the Ohio, June 12, 1862. and early in September Bragg advanced into Kentucky, obliging Buell to evacuate central Tennessee and retreat to Louisville, where his army arrived September 24, thus saving that city and Cincinnati, Ohio, from capture. Buell was superseded by General Thomas, September 30, by orders from Washington, but reinstated the next day, when he pursued Bragg's retreating forces. They met at Perryville, and fought an indecisive battle, though Bragg acknowledged defeat by retreating to Harrodsburg, and then to Cumberland Gap. Buell's management of this campaign has been pronounced masterly by military authorities, but he was censured by the war department, and by orders turned over his command to General Rosecrans. The report of the military investigation committee was never published. General Buell was mustered out of the volunteer service, May 23, 1864, and resigned his commission in the regular army June 1, 1864. He became extensively engaged in the iron business in Muhlenburg county, Ky. He was appointed pension agent in Kentucky by President Cleveland in 1885. He died near Rockport, Ky., Nov. 19, 1898.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Bayless Leander Durant Guffy, jurist, was born in Muhlenburg county, Ky., Dec. 24, 1832; son of James and Malinda (Jameson) Guffy, and grandson of Alexander and Ann (Puntney) Guffy. He passed his boyhood on a farm in Logan county, Ky., and attended the common schools and Urania college, Glasgow, Ky. He removed to Butler county in 1854, was admitted to the bar in 1856, and began to practise in Morgantown in 1857. He was assistant assessor of the county in 1858, and in the same year was elected police judge of Morgantown. He was appointed assistant U.S. marshal in 1860, and in 1862 was elected county judge of Butler county as a Union Democrat, being re-elected in 1866. He was the Republican nominee for elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket in 1868; was defeated as the Greenback candidate for representative in congress in 1876; was elected county judge in 1878 and re-elected in 1882; was the nominee of the People's party for attorney-general in 1891, and in 1894 was elected as a Republican judge of the court of appeals in the 2d appellate district, for a term of eight years.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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