CIVIL WAR SHILOH COLONEL 26th KENTUCKY INFANTRY FAIRLEIGH ORDER DOCUMENT SIGNED

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Here’s a Civil War Date Document Signed by
COL. THOMAS BROOKS FAIRLEIGH
(
1837 – 1890
)
CIVIL WAR BATTLE OF SHILOH and NASHVILLE UNION COLONEL
and COMMANDER OF THE
26
th
KENTUCKY INFANTRY JAN. 3-JULY 10, 1865,
LT. COLONEL
26
th
KY INFANTRY 1862-1864,
MAJOR
and CAPTAIN
OF “
G
” Co.,
26
th
KY IN 1862,
-&-
PROMINENT POST-WAR LAWYER
IN LOUISVILLE, KY.
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HERE’S A CIVIL WAR DATE DOCUMENT SIGNED BY FAIRLEIGH – “
S
PECIAL ORDER No. 6 } HEAD QUARTERS 26
th
KY. VOL. INF., SALISBURY NORTH CAROLINA JUNE
2
d
1865
,”
CONVENING A BOARD OF SURVEY TO INVESTIGATE, and REPORT ON, THE DEFICIENCY OF CERTAIN ARTICLES OF CLOTHING FOR WHICH LIEUT. J. M. SALLIE, ACTG RQM, 26
th
KY VOLS IS RESPONSIBLE.
THE FINAL REPORT IS WRITTEN IN MANUSCRIPT BELOW THE ORDER, and SHOWS THAT LT. SALLIE WAS NOT FOUND RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MISSING CLOTHING.
The document is 2 separate pages, measures 8” x 12” and is in VF, crisp and clean condition.
The Document comes with the biographical information pictured in the listing photos.
BIOGRAPHY OF
THOMAS BROOKS FAIRLEIGH
Thomas Brooks Farleigh
(1837-1890), Brandenburg, Kentucky native, attorney and Civil War officer. Son of William Fairleigh and Elizabeth Fairleigh. Student in Brandenburg in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Brandenburg in 1850. Graduate of the University of Louisville Law School in 1858. Attorney in Brandenburg in 1860. Served in the 26th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain, major, and lieutenant colonel from February 1862 to August 1862. Served under Stephen G. Burbridge as Acting Assistant Adjutant General in August 1862. Served in the Army of the Ohio, 2nd Army Corps, as the Acting Assistant Adjutant General from October 7, 1862, to November 26, 1862. Commanded Bowling Green post from August 1863 to January 1864. Served on the staff of General Burbridge from March 1864 to May 1864. Commanded Louisville post from May 1864 to January 1865. Colonel of the veteranized 26th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1864 to July 1865. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1865.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States
(1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky District, p. 208B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States
(1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky District, p. 811, p. 9 of 19 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States
(1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Brandenburg, p. 379.
Roger D. Hunt,
Colonels in Blue--Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2014), 155.
"Col. Fairleigh Dead,"
Courier-Journal
(Louisville, Ky.), November 3, 1890.
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CIVIL WAR SERVICE SUMMARY
THOMAS B. FAIRLEIGH
Enlisted on 3/5/1862 at Nashville, TN as a Captain.
On 3/5/1862 he was commissioned into "G" Co.
KY 26th Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 7/10/1865 at Salisbury, NC
(Estimated date of enlistment)
Promotions:
Major 5/5/1862
Lt Colonel 6/12/1862
Colonel 1/3/1865
Intra Regimental Company Transfers:
5/5/1862 from company G to Field & Staff
Source: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky
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Thomas Brooks Farleigh resides in Louisville, and is a lawyer of some prominence;
served in the Federal Army during the late war; went in as a captain, served through
the war, and when discharged was the colonel of the Twenty-sixth Regiment of
Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.
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Twenty-sixth Infantry
KENTUCKY
(3-YEARs)
Twenty-sixth Infantry. -- Cols., Stephen G. Burbridge, Cicero
Maxwell,
Thomas B. Fairleigh
; Lieut.-Cols., James F. Lauck,
Rowland E. Hackett; Majs., John L. Davidson, Joseph L. Frost,
Ignatius Mattingly, Cyrus J. Wilson, Francis M. Page, James H.
Ashcraft.
This regiment was recruited and organized by Col. Burbridge,
but as he was made brigadier-general June 12, 1862, he was not
long with the regiment.
The companies came from the Green
River counties, and there was no place or road in all the
section of the state from Bowling Green to Henderson that was
not known to some of the men.
Arriving at the mouth of Green River after the fall of Fort
Donelson, the regiment passed up the Cumberland by the fallen
fortress and landed at Nashville just as Buell's army was
crossing the river into the city.
At Nashville on March 5,
1862, it was regularly mustered by Maj. Bankhead.
Upon the second day at
Shiloh
it was engaged in heavy
fighting, as the casualties show, there being 7 killed,
including Maj. Davidson, and 60 wounded.
After the battle of
Shiloh the regiment moved with the army to
Corinth
; took part
in the siege and skirmishing there; then moved to Tuscumbia,
Florence and Athens, Ala., and camped at Battle Creek, Tenn.
The regiment was but slightly engaged at
Perryville
.
It
continued in pursuit of Bragg until he was out of the state
and then marched across the country to Nashville, where the
army, then under Gen. Rosecrans, was concentrated, Buell
having been relieved.
Later the regiment was sent to Bowling
Green.
On Jan. 31, 1864, the members of the 26th reenlisted as
veterans and rendezvoused at Bowling Green in the spring where
on April 1 the 33d was consolidated with it, becoming Cos. F.
H, I and K.
The regiment was mounted and used through the
entire spring and summer for the protection of Kentucky.
It then join›d the command of Gen. Burbridge for the raid to
the salt works, in Virginia.
From the day it left Pikeville
until its return to that point it was in a continual fight.
On Oct. 29 it was ordered to Paducah.
On Dec. 7 it went to
Nashville and was placed in the 1st brigade, 2nd division, 23d
corps.
It engaged in the
battle of Nashville
, moving with the 23d
corps under Gen. Schofield, and joining in the general charge
which broke up and destroyed Hood's army.
Taking transports
at Clifton, Tenn., it proceeded down the Tennessee and up the
Ohio to Cincinnati, thence by rail to Washington, D. C., and
Alexandria, Va, then taking ocean steamer the regiment went
with the 23rd corps to Fort Fisher, N. C., arriving there in
Jan., 1865.
On the way to Wilmington the regiment fought at
Fort Anderson
and Town Creek
, and led by Col. Fairleigh was the first
regiment to enter Wilmington.
It reached Raleigh and remained
there until the surrender of Gen. Johnston, when it was sent
to Salisbury, N. C., and encamped until it was ordered to
Kentucky.
It was mustered out July 10, 1865, at Louisville.
Source:
The Union Army, vol. 4, p. 336
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