CS Con Marshall, Humphrey - C.S. Representative, KY

Humphrey Marshall​

Born: January 13, 1812

Birthplace: Frankfort, Kentucky

Father: Humphrey Marshall 1760 – 1841

(Buried: Glen Willis Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky)​

Mother: Mary Ann Maria "Mary" Marshall 1757 – 1824

(Buried: Glen Willis Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky)​

Wife: Francis McAlister 1814 – 1896

(Buried: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky)​

Children:

Nelly Nichol Marshall McAfee 1845 – 1898​

Education:

1832: Graduated from West Point Military Academy (42nd​ in class)​

Occupation:

1832 – 1833: Brevet 2nd​ Lt., United States Army Mounted Rangers​

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1833: Brevet 2nd​ Lt., United States Army 1st​ Dragoons​

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1833: Resigned from United States Army on April 30th​​

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1833 – 1834: Attorney in Frankfort, Kentucky​

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1836 – 1838: Captain, Kentucky State Militia​

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1834 – 1846: Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky​

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1838 – 1841: Major, Kentucky State Militia​

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1841 – 1846: Lt. Colonel, Kentucky State Militia​

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1846 – 1847: Colonel 1st​ Kentucky Cavalry Volunteers

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1847 – 1852: Farmer in Henry County, Kentucky​

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1849 – 1852: United States Representative from Kentucky​

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1852 – 1853: United States Minister to China​

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1853 – 1861: Farmer in Henry County, Kentucky​

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1855 – 1859: United States Representative from Kentucky​

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1856: Member of National Council of the American Party​

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1860: Supporter of John C. Breckinridge for President​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1863: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry​

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1862: Participated in the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky​

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1862: Participated in General Braxton Bragg's Operations in Kentucky​

1863: Resigned from the Confederate Army & Brigadier General rank​

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1863: Attorney in RichmondVirginia​

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1864 – 1865: Confederate States Representative from Kentucky​

Occupation after War:

1867: Citizenship restored by President Andrew Johnson​

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1867 – 1872: Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky and Richmond, Kentucky​

Died: March 28, 1872

Place of Death: Louisville, Kentucky

Cause of Death: Bronchitis

Age at time of Death: 60 years old

Burial Place: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky

 

[John Hartwell]

[Albany Daily Argus, 2 April 1872]​

 

[Pollaco]

He was one of the leaders of the neutrality movement in Kentucky. When he resigned on June 17, 1863 it was for a second time. He had originally resigned his commission on June 16, 1863 but was reinstated. It is stated that He resigned for "unexplained reasons", any idea as to why?

 

[donna]

Sorry can't wish him Happy Birthday. He was Union leader at Middle Creek. That is where my Great Great Grandfather, Nathaniel Cook, (Confederate) was mortally wounded and died on a farm near the battle.

I wish no ill will but just can't say Happy Birthday.

 

[huskerblitz]

This article was written by the Chaplain of the 22nd Kentucky.

 

[Luke Freet]

Sorry can't wish him Happy Birthday. He was Union leader at Middle Creek. That is where my Great Great Grandfather, Nathaniel Cook, (Confederate) was mortally wounded and died on a farm near the battle.

I wish no ill will but just can't say Happy Birthday.

Marshall was the Confederate commander at the battle.

 

[donna]

You are right. I know that now. Don't know why made that mistake. Just thinking of Battle and that my great great grandfather died. I even had thread on Battle which I bumped recently.

My mistake.

 

[Lonnie]

He was one of the leaders of the neutrality movement in Kentucky. When he resigned on June 17, 1863 it was for a second time. He had originally resigned his commission on June 16, 1863 but was reinstated. It is stated that He resigned for "unexplained reasons", any idea as to why?

I bet he was pressured to resign for the tactical blunder he made at Middle Creek.

 

[Sheltowee]

Article titled "Humphrey Humping Himself". ????

 

[huskerblitz]

Article titled "Humphrey Humping Himself". ????

Yep, from a chaplain no less!

 

[Pollaco]

He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1849 to 1859 except for a stint from 1852 to 1855 when William Preston held that seat.Preston was Gen. Albert S. Johnston's brother-in-law and later a Confederate General.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday Brig. General Humphrey Marshall! Salutes remembering General Marshall on his birthday.

 

[Copperhead-mi]

He was one of the leaders of the neutrality movement in Kentucky. When he resigned on June 17, 1863 it was for a second time. He had originally resigned his commission on June 16, 1863 but was reinstated. It is stated that He resigned for "unexplained reasons", any idea as to why?

If he was a leader of the neutrality movement in KY, why did he become a Confederate officer?
edit to add - It appears that he joined the Confederate army during Bragg's September, 1861 invasion of the state.

 

[RedRover]

General Marshall was generally respected by his officers and men, but his distaste for military protocol annoyed his superiors. Edward O. Guarrant served on his staff and gives some account of General Marshall, and his operations in 1861-63.

He not personally adapted to the mountain warfare which he commanded, weighing over 300 pounds. His men quipped in a song, "Humphrey Marshall, He's our boss, big as hell, brave as a hoss…"

Humphrey thought little of military foppery and only procured a uniform in June, 1862, over a year after the war began. Campaigning in the mountains, many locals marveled at the appearance of a general among them... no one had ever seen a fat man in those parts!
On one occasion he was warned that his portly figure would certainly identify him in the field and draw the fire of yankee sharpshooters. He answered, "I have provided for that, I have a fat staff…" His appearance was further marked by having one eye fixed in a wall-eyed fashion. He was also a narcoleptic, and occasionally fell into full snoring sleep in the middle of conversation, only to awake later mid-sentence. He evidently demonstrated this most notably during a wartime interview with Confederate President Jefferson Davis about the strategic affairs in Kentucky.

In the winter of 1861-62 the government provided suits of "cottonade" for his ragged command of mountain men; entirely unsuited to the winter. The men were going into fits about it, and Humphrey commenced a speech, extolling the virtues of these suits of finest "southern wool," which calmed them some.

General Basil Duke, who married into the Marshall family, recalled many of the general's eccentricities in his memoir. He noted;

"it is to be regretted that no spoken or written production of Humphrey Marshall has been preserved; but he was indolent, averse to systematic labour, and utterly careless about such record; and his memory will survive only in tradition." [Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke, 1909, 146.]

His young son John J. Marshall, was a captains in the 4th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, CSA, and died before the end of the war in a duel with a fellow officer who was formerly a friend.
His daughter Nelly Nichol Marshall (born in Louisville, Kentucky, 8 May 1845; died in Washington, D.C., 19 April 1898), was an author. In addition to numerous poems and many magazine articles, she published the novels "Eleanor Morton, or Life in Dixie" (New York, 1865), "Sodom Apples" (1866), "Fireside Gleanings" (Chicago, 1866), "As by Fire" (New York, 1869), "Wearing the Cross" (Cincinnati, 1868), "Passion, or Bartered and Sold" (Louisville, 1876), and "A Criminal through Love" (1882). She married Col. John J. McAfee, a veteran of the Confederate army, in 1871.


J. Marshall,
Hernando, FL.

 

[Sheltowee]

General Marshall was generally respected by his officers and men, but his distaste for military protocol annoyed his superiors. Edward O. Guarrant served on his staff and gives some account of General Marshall, and his operations in 1861-63.
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He not personally adapted to the mountain warfare which he commanded, weighing over 300 pounds. His men quipped in a song, "Humphrey Marshall, He's our boss, big as hell, brave as a hoss…"

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Humphrey thought little of military foppery and only procured a uniform in June, 1862, over a year after the war began. Campaigning in the mountains, many locals marveled at the appearance of a general among them... no one had ever seen a fat man in those parts!
On one occasion he was warned that his portly figure would certainly identify him in the field and draw the fire of yankee sharpshooters. He answered, "I have provided for that, I have a fat staff…" His appearance was further marked by having one eye fixed in a wall-eyed fashion. He was also a narcoleptic, and occasionally fell into full snoring sleep in the middle of conversation, only to awake later mid-sentence. He evidently demonstrated this most notably during a wartime interview with Confederate President Jefferson Davis about the strategic affairs in Kentucky.

In the winter of 1861-62 the government provided suits of "cottonade" for his ragged command of mountain men; entirely unsuited to the winter. The men were going into fits about it, and Humphrey commenced a speech, extolling the virtues of these suits of finest "southern wool," which calmed them some.

General Basil Duke, who married into the Marshall family, recalled many of the general's eccentricities in his memoir. He noted;

"it is to be regretted that no spoken or written production of Humphrey Marshall has been preserved; but he was indolent, averse to systematic labour, and utterly careless about such record; and his memory will survive only in tradition." [Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke, 1909, 146.]

His young son John J. Marshall, was a captains in the 4th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, CSA, and died before the end of the war in a duel with a fellow officer who was formerly a friend.
His daughter Nelly Nichol Marshall (born in Louisville, Kentucky, 8 May 1845; died in Washington, D.C., 19 April 1898), was an author. In addition to numerous poems and many magazine articles, she published the novels "Eleanor Morton, or Life in Dixie" (New York, 1865), "Sodom Apples" (1866), "Fireside Gleanings" (Chicago, 1866), "As by Fire" (New York, 1869), "Wearing the Cross" (Cincinnati, 1868), "Passion, or Bartered and Sold" (Louisville, 1876), and "A Criminal through Love" (1882). She married Col. John J. McAfee, a veteran of the Confederate army, in 1871.


J. Marshall,
Hernando, FL.

Nice post- thanks.

 

[huskerblitz]

Article titled "Humphrey Humping Himself". ????

What's kind of interesting about this article's author, the two had met prior. Chaplain Sumner was a principal at a female boarding school where Humphrey Marshall was the speaker at the school.