It was at Hopkinsville that Lt. James Curry Wallace and his son, William Richard Wallace, joined the unit. At the Battle of Perryville, somewhere along the Ohio River James was killed by a shot from a Union Gunboat. (According to notes by Faye Dearing Barr, a Wallace family researcher and descendant of James Curry Wallace, he was killed near Morganfield, Kentucky.
The 1st Kentucky Cavalry was reduced to a battalion and its regimental organization disbanded. They merged with the 3rd Kentucky Cavalry, Private William Richard Wallace continued on after the loss of his father, and now came under the cavalry command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
It was at Hopkinsville that Lt. James Curry Wallace and his son, William Richard Wallace, joined the unit. At the Battle of Perryville, somewhere along the Ohio River James was killed by a shot from a Union Gunboat. (According to notes by Faye Dearing Barr, a Wallace family researcher and descendant of James Curry Wallace, he was killed near Morganfield, Kentucky.
The 1st Kentucky Cavalry was reduced to a battalion and its regimental organization disbanded. They merged with the 3rd Kentucky Cavalry, Private William Richard Wallace continued on after the loss of his father, and now came under the cavalry command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Family Members
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William Richard Wallace
1842–1927
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William R Wallace
1844–1904
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James Thomas Wallace
1845–1909
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Abraham Cook Wallace
1847–1902
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Benjamin F. Wallace
1849 – unknown
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Robert Henry Wallace
1853–1938
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Mary Helen Wallace Jackson
1855–1914
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Sarah Jane Wallace Cornish
1858–1929
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Nancy M. Wallace Cornish
1861 – unknown
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John Morgan Wallace
1863–1947
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