462 Ann Maria, youngest dau. of 225-93-42-1 3-4 and Julina Bundy ; married, 1872, Stewart H. Bartlett; children: Hattie Blanche, born May 16, 1873. 465 John Calvin, eldest son of 230-102-53-18-4 and Esther Clark; married, time not given, Maysville, Ky., Anna Wood, birth and parentage not given; child: 626 Cally, born about 1849. 467 Samuel Selden, second son of 230-102-53-18-4 and Esther married, Dec. 1, 1859, in Fayette Co., Va, Juliette [Clark ; Poundstone, born Sept. 19, 1836, parentage not given ; children: 627 Annie, born Aug. 30, 1860, md. H. A. Morgan; child: Nellie. 628 John Selden, born Sept. 27, 1863. 629 Katie, born Dec. 22, 1867. 480 RICHARD BENJAMIN AVERY was born in Allegany, N. Y., June 8, 1831. His father died very carly, and his mother, having re-married, moved to Oregon during the forties. Richard learned the printing business and attended Georgetown College, Kentucky. He was employed as a writer on the Missouri Democrat, then the organ of Hon. Thomas H. Benton. Later he was steamboat clerk on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and in the political campaign of 1860 he was traveling corre. spondent of the Missouri Republican, and left that position to enter the editorial service of the Chicago Times. He entered the army at the beginning of the Civil war as a private in an independent battalion from Chicago, and served about Cairo and in Southw.stern Missouri. After the battle of Lexington he was authorized to raise a company, to be known as Company L of Colonel James A. Mulligan's Irish Brigade, in conjunction with Captain George H. Kennedy, and was commissioned as acting lieutenant. The War Department refused to muster the four additional companies desired by Colonel Mulligan, when, by arrangement with the latter, Avery took his portion of Company "L" to Wisconsin, where it was to form the nucleus of one of the regiments which, with Mulligan's own regiment, was to form a real Irish Brigade," to be commanded by him. Commencing enlistments at Kenosha, rendezvousing the men at Mad son, a full regiment was secured in a remarkably short time, and John L. Doran, of Milwaukee, was commissioned its colonel. In the selection of subordinate officers, for political reasons: Bernard Schulte was commissioned lieutenant instead of Avery, and the latter insisted that that was to the best interests of the service. Instead of joining Mulligan on the Potomac, the regiment was sent to General Grant, at Shiloh. Avery served with the regiment until after the evacuation of Corinth by Beauregard, and was discharged for disability July 6, 1862. He was taken to the Tisomingo hotel to recover, and remained with the army until after the surrender of Vicksburg, taking part in the battle of Corinth, Ocotber 5th and 6th, 1862. He was sent North with dispatches the latter part of December, and was captured by Col. G. G. Dibrell, of Forrest's Cavalry, at Crockett, Tenn., the day before the emancipation proclamation went into effect. He spent that memorable Christmas eve a prisoner in Forrest's camp. Next morning he refused to accept the parole offered him, and was granted a brief interview with General Forrest, to explain to him that he was a "correspondent of the Chicago Times," which paper was alleged to be copperhead in its tendencies, and it was hoped this would gain the "alleged correspondent" special favors. If General Forrest felt kindly toward that paper, he expressed an earnest inclination to incontinently hang the "alleged correspondent," in common with "all other newspaper men and preachers." After being assured by General Forrest that a "compulsory parole was not binding any longer than the compulsory force existed," Avery agreed to accept the objectionable parole, and keep it just as "long as inside Forrest's lines," and make no objection to being hung if again caught. After obtaining a good dinner at a residence inside the lines, Avery left the Confederate camp on foot, and was halted by the Federal pickets at Columbus, Ky.. about forty miles distant, before midnight of the day which really witnessed the ennobling of five millions of human beings. He was at once taken before General Davies, and made a report of the exact condition of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, which he had walked over from Jackson, Tenn., to Columbus, and which For rest's men believed they had wrecked; but which Avery knew could be fully repaired with the timber and iron he saw loaded on the train in front of General Davies' door. He reported that the Confederates had then left the line of the road, and their next stopping place would be Dresden, Tenn., and that the enemy did not then have even an organized company on the route bet.veen Columbus and Jackson, and that Gen. I. N. Haynie then really had at the latter place a much larger force in hand than Forrest would care to meet; and finally that General Grant wa; in a perilous position, solely because of insufficient supplies, and the country he was in was incapable of supporting his army for one single twenty-four hours. Further, that one of the dispatches, which he had brought through at no little danger, was a dispatch in cypher, in which he was assured General Grant advised the President of the desperate peril which menaced his gallant army. He advised General Davies that one of the dispatches he had destroyed after his capture, to preserve the information from the enemy, instructed General Davies to place himself in immediate telegraphic communication with General Rosecrans, and co-operate with him earnestly to the end that General Forrest might be prevented from crossing back to the eastern side of the Tennessee river, and at the same time General Haynie would be assisting both. At that, General Davies pretended to doubt Avery. He disliked General Rosecrans so thoroughly that it is doubtful if he would have rendered him any useful help even in obedience to the order which Avery had destroyed, but anyhow it was safe to repudiate an order that could not be verified until the lines were again open, and he did it. In reply to all the earnest statements made by Avery, he said: "It all depends upon your reliability. My scouts tell me that Forest has 17.000 men just beyond the State line (less than 20 miles out), and I believe them. Before jeopardizing my force I must be convinced of your reliability." "Reliability be d-d." said Avery. "The fact that I have been entrusted with these dispatches should be sufficient warrant for my reliability. However, here's a simple method of settling that. I see a locomotive fired up and hitched to the loaded train I spoke of. Chain me to that locomotive with a" reliable" guard over me. Start that train with a force to repair the road within |