The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-08-28
MASON COUNTY MEN
ARE CHOSEN OFFICERS
OF MORGAN'S men
Mr.. w. II. RObb Reelected First Vice
President Of Association and Mr..
Walter Matthews Is Member
or Executive Committee.

Olympian Springs, August 2S.-Mor-
gan's Men Wednesday reelected the
three vice presidents of the associa-
ton and the executive committee. The
president, Steve G. Sharp, of Coving-
ton, and Secretary Horace Taylor, OF
Carlisle, hold office for life. The vice
presidents are w. H. Robb, Helena
Station; w. ]. Stone, Kuttawa, and
Ellery Blackburn, Georgetown.
Members of the executive committee
are George B. Taylor, Nicholasville; A.
w. Macklin, Frankfort; Walter Mat
thews, Maysville; c. A. Meng, North
Middletown, and NJ. A. Haggard,
Georgetown.
DR.. Henry Hunt Duke, of Louisville,
son of the late General Basil Duke,
commander and president of Morgan's
Men, who married General Morgan's
sister, spoke to the veterans at their
request yesterday morning. He said
that he attended the reunion In respect
to the memory of his father, who
would want him to be present. Doctor
Duke was in France ten months and
in action six months. He was in the
Argonne Forest with engineering
troops and an evacuation hospital, and
was behind the lines the greater part
Of tho TINA IN coi5
None but American troops could
have taken the Argonne Forest" said
Doctor Duke. "The French tried four
years and Pershings men did it in al
most as many weeks.
President Sharp asked all members
of the command who were In or near
Greenville, Tenn, when General Nor
gan was killed there to give their YER
sion of the events of the day. Judge
]. w. Perry, of West Liberty, gave a
graphic account of the death of his
gallant commander, which brought
tears to the eyes of many of his COM
rades. c. A. Lee, Jr., of Falmouth,
chaplin of the command, also spoke
Of the last few hours of Morgan's life.
The surrender Of less than two nun
bred of Morgan's Men at the end of the
twenty-siXth day raid into Ohio and
Indiana was described by Andrew
Broaddus, of Louisville, and President
Steve G. Sharp. The cavalrymen were
not out of their saddles for twenty-six
days. and nights, taking their little
sleep while riding, and less than two
hundred of the 1900 or 1000 men who
crossed the Ohio surrendered, they
said. The others were captured at
Butfington's Island, lost their mounts
and came home on foot, or were on
detached duty.
Mr. Martin said that there were
about fifteen men under sixteen years
of age in Morgan's command alone and
hundreds in the Confederate Army. He
ran off to join the army when thirteen
years old, failed, and Joined Bragg the
next year, serving until the end of
the war, when he was seventeen. The
Oldest living member of the asscoa-
ton, John Douglas, of Lexington, is
years old.
DR.. T. ]. Robb, Helena Station; Cal
vert and Walter Meng, of North Mid
dletown, all sons of Morgan's Men,
were made honorary members of the
Additional registrants ON Wednes-
day were A, A. Ramey, Mt. Sterling,
5th Kentucky Cavalry; D. s. Nixon,
Mt. Sterling, End Cavalry; B. W. Nix
on, Owingsville, End Cavalry; G. T.
Winchester, 9th Cavalry; w.
NJ. Hart, Owingsville, End Cavalry; T.
n. Lashbrooky Maysville, 9th Cavalry;
Dan Perrine, Maysville, 7th Cavalry,
and Judge John A. Daugherty, Owings-
Vile, 9th Cavalry.