HISTORY OF THE ORPHAN BRIGADE.

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one-legged companions started with him. At the end of the first day, ten miles having been made, these two found themselves unable to proceed, but Rudy was unconquerable; next day he had traveled ten miles by noon. He learned now, however, that Lee had surrendered, whereupon he accepted hospitable care at the home of a Mr. Martin until an opportunity to get to Kentucky offered.

After coming home he attended a business college, in which he graduated in an unusually short time. In October, 1866, he married Miss Sallie Magness, of Jefferson County, and removed during the same month to Daveiss County, where he has since resided and reared a family of seven children. He has engaged in farming and coal mining, and is at present one of the Directors of the Citizens' Savings Bank, of Owensboro. In 1879 he was elected to represent Daveiss in the Legislature; again in 1881; then in 1883 ; declined to be a candidate in 1885 ; but was afterward twice elected (1887 and 1889). He is the only man who has ever served Daveiss County in this capacity more than two terms.

To those who are hereafter to bear his name, his record as a soldier and a citizen will be a proud inheritance. For Kentucky, he has exemplified in war and in peace the sterling traits by which her sons have given her preeminence among the States of the Union.

LIEUT. WM. WALLACE HERR.

In i860 he was active in organizing Capt. Benson Ormsby's Jefferson County company of cavalry in the State Guard, and was elected its second lieutenant.   Here he took his first lessons on the art of war.

The company was splendidly mounted and well drilled, and most of its members afterward took part in the war, entering the service of one or other of the combatants. Among those who went South was Lieut. Herr. Accompanied by Jas. H. Rudy, also a member of Ormsby's company, as noted elsewhere, he went to Bloomfield in September, 1861, and thence with other mounted men under Col. Jack Allen to Munfordville; soon thereafter to Horse Cave, where he was sworn into the service.

He was one of the detachment that went to Hutcherson's on the morning of October nth to reinforce the infantry who had repulsed the Federals the night before. A little subsequently, at Bowling Green, he became a member of Co. E, First Kentucky Cavalry.

On the trip from Bloomfield he had his first experience as a scout; and so well did he do the duty assigned him   refusing to be excited and misled by sensational people, whose apprehensions frequently magnified a chance rider or a neighbor on foot into a band of soldiers, but