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without effect; and finally reached the central part of the State. He found it impossible to execute his mission; the people had despaired of Southern success; and as he feared capture if he either remained or tried to return, he made his way to Canada, and joined Capt. Hines, who was then in Toronto. The Northwestern Conspiracy having failed, Hines had despatched escaped prisoners and others southward in small parties, in order to join their commands, and Herr, was with one of these parties; but shortly after reaching Kentucky, and while waiting with Capt. Hines, who had armed quite a number of these and some new recruits, but had not mounted them, the war closed and he returned to his home in Jefferson County.

In January, 1866, he married Miss Kittie Todd, a sister to Mrs. Gen. Helm. (See Incidents and Anecdotes following Chapter II.) He engaged in farming near Louisville till 1879, when he bought a farm three miles below Owensboro, to which he removed with his children, and where he reared them. Mrs. Herr died in 1875, and he has not remarried.

His parents were Alfred and Mary Herr. His mother was a Miss Sherley. He was born in Jefferson County, June 9, 1834. The father's family came from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, in 1796: the mother's from Virginia, in 1820.

He has never courted prominence nor asked for official position    being content with his honorable pursuit and the retiracy of home life. In 1893 Gov. Brown appointed him one of the commissioners for the State to locate positions of Kentucky troops on the battlefield of Chickamauga; and he was chairman of the Daveiss County Democratic Committee for five or six years, but resigned in 1895   not from any indisposition to serve his party or his friends, for in this particular he has always been emphatically one of the " boys in the trenches," a willing worker, outspoken in his preferences, and influential.

For the attentive reader, it is hardly necessary to point out his soldierly qualities: they are manifest. With a martial" disposition that could easily be aroused to enthusiasm, he was yet self-poised, circumspect, and steady as a veteran commander; and his -high-hearted devotion to duty could in no other way be made more manifest than it was by his rising superior to physical suffering and resulting feebleness, as he did on several occasions, and making his painful way to where his fellow-soldiers were expecting to meet the enemy. A gentleman who knew of his service from first to last, and was much with him, wrote of him : " After the battle of Chickamauga, Wallace Herr put aside the trappings of a staff officer and came back to his company in the First Cavalry, taking up his gun modestly, and bravely and uncomplainingly serving in the ranks, where he was a model soldier. He