Colonel Curran Pope (US Military Academy, Class of 1834) was the fourth son of Worden, II (1776-1838) and Elizabeth Thruston Pope (1785-1838). He was clerk of Jefferson County Court, 1838-55, and served for 11 years on the Louisville General Council. He was one of the original projectors and directors of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and one of the incorporators of the Louisville Water Works. He served with distinction in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was colonel of the 15th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry which he was mainly instrumental in raising and organizing in the fall of 1861 at Camp Pope, near New Haven, Kentucky.
Pope died of "fever of typhoid symptoms" while recovering from wounds received at the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862 after assuming command of the 17th Brigade, Third Division, I Corps, Army of the Ohio. On November 6, 1862, the Louisville Democrat reported, "There has scarcely occurred in this war anything so saddening as the death of this patriotic soldier and Christian gentleman." Shortly after the funeral, General William T. Sherman informed Pope's widow. "Among all the men I have ever met in the progress of this unnatural war, I cannot recall one in whose every act and expression was so manifest the good and true man; one who so well filled the type of the Kentucky gentleman."
In 1909 an artillery battery at Ft. Revere in Boston, Massachusetts was named in Pope's honor and his name is on a memorial tablet there. On Memorial Day 2011, the Louisville Courier-Journal carried a front page article on the Civil War with a picture of Colonel Pope and his headstone which includes carvings of a gun, sword, and shield.
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Pope died of "fever of typhoid symptoms" while recovering from wounds received at the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862 after assuming command of the 17th Brigade, Third Division, I Corps, Army of the Ohio. On November 6, 1862, the Louisville Democrat reported, "There has scarcely occurred in this war anything so saddening as the death of this patriotic soldier and Christian gentleman." Shortly after the funeral, General William T. Sherman informed Pope's widow. "Among all the men I have ever met in the progress of this unnatural war, I cannot recall one in whose every act and expression was so manifest the good and true man; one who so well filled the type of the Kentucky gentleman."
In 1909 an artillery battery at Ft. Revere in Boston, Massachusetts was named in Pope's honor and his name is on a memorial tablet there. On Memorial Day 2011, the Louisville Courier-Journal carried a front page article on the Civil War with a picture of Colonel Pope and his headstone which includes carvings of a gun, sword, and shield.
Bio submitted by JHBarr (48130565) and edited by Roger (57357318).
Colonel Curran Pope (US Military Academy, Class of 1834) was the fourth son of Worden, II (1776-1838) and Elizabeth Thruston Pope (1785-1838). He was clerk of Jefferson County Court, 1838-55, and served for 11 years on the Louisville General Council. He was one of the original projectors and directors of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and one of the incorporators of the Louisville Water Works. He served with distinction in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was colonel of the 15th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry which he was mainly instrumental in raising and organizing in the fall of 1861 at Camp Pope, near New Haven, Kentucky.
Pope died of "fever of typhoid symptoms" while recovering from wounds received at the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862 after assuming command of the 17th Brigade, Third Division, I Corps, Army of the Ohio. On November 6, 1862, the Louisville Democrat reported, "There has scarcely occurred in this war anything so saddening as the death of this patriotic soldier and Christian gentleman." Shortly after the funeral, General William T. Sherman informed Pope's widow. "Among all the men I have ever met in the progress of this unnatural war, I cannot recall one in whose every act and expression was so manifest the good and true man; one who so well filled the type of the Kentucky gentleman."
In 1909 an artillery battery at Ft. Revere in Boston, Massachusetts was named in Pope's honor and his name is on a memorial tablet there. On Memorial Day 2011, the Louisville Courier-Journal carried a front page article on the Civil War with a picture of Colonel Pope and his headstone which includes carvings of a gun, sword, and shield.
Bio submitted by JHBarr (48130565) and edited by Roger (57357318).
Pope died of "fever of typhoid symptoms" while recovering from wounds received at the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862 after assuming command of the 17th Brigade, Third Division, I Corps, Army of the Ohio. On November 6, 1862, the Louisville Democrat reported, "There has scarcely occurred in this war anything so saddening as the death of this patriotic soldier and Christian gentleman." Shortly after the funeral, General William T. Sherman informed Pope's widow. "Among all the men I have ever met in the progress of this unnatural war, I cannot recall one in whose every act and expression was so manifest the good and true man; one who so well filled the type of the Kentucky gentleman."
In 1909 an artillery battery at Ft. Revere in Boston, Massachusetts was named in Pope's honor and his name is on a memorial tablet there. On Memorial Day 2011, the Louisville Courier-Journal carried a front page article on the Civil War with a picture of Colonel Pope and his headstone which includes carvings of a gun, sword, and shield.
Bio submitted by JHBarr (48130565) and edited by Roger (57357318).
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