Confederate States of America
James Washington Smith - CSA (December 17, 1861 - ~February 1, 1864)
Union - Grand Army of the Repuplic
James Lee Wheeler - Union -
James Lee Wheeler was one who enlisted for the North at the age of 19 on October 10, 1861, after riding his horse all night.
Pvt. James Lee Wheeler b 21 Nov 1841/1842 Lawrence Co, Ky d 19 Jan 1921 s/o John Ramey Wheeler & Rachel “Rebecca” Lemaster married (1) 4 Jan 1865 Mahalia “Halie” Angeline Sparks (2) aft 1877 Mary Tabor. James Lee was a Private in the Union Army – 14th Kentucky Regiment – Company B from 1861 – 1865 and was involved in driving the Confederate Forces out of Floyd Co., Ky at the Battle of Middle Creek. He was wounded in Allatoona, Ga., in June 1864 and at this time, his father, Sgt. John Ramey Wheeler was stationed in Louisa, Kentucky, in the Union Militia – 68th Kentucky Regiment, to which he was enrolled in 1864. Picture and story appeared in “The East Kentuckian” June 1998 issue, and the article was submitted by James F. Carver, Portsmouth, Ohio.
James Lee Wheeler, a son of John Ramey Wheeler and Rachel LeMaster, was born November 21, 1841, in Blaine, Lawrence County, KY.
James Lee, at the age of 19, rode his horse to Catlettsburg, KY and enlisted in the Union Army on October 10, 1861. His actual active duty began December 10, 1861, when James Lee mustered in at Camp Wallace in Louisa, KY, as a private. He served in Co. B, 14th Reg, Kentucky Infantry.
James Lee would serve his country well until June 20, 1864, when at the age of 22 years, he was wounded in a battle in Altons. It would be 15 days later before James Lee would be admitted into the General Hospital (#1667) in Louisville, KY, on July 5, 1864. James Lee suffered a severe flesh wound in the upper part of his thigh; a minnie ball was removed. James Lee was shortly thereafter transferred to the General Hospital in Ashland, KY. By November 1864, James Lee returned to active service.
James Lee Wheeler would marry his war bride, Mahala Angiline Sparks, in Blaine, KY, on January 4, 1865, less than a month before his military discharge on January 31, 1865. James Lee lived a productive life until his death on January 19, 1921, in Webbville, Elliott County, KY.
General George Rappeen Smith - Union -

“The South has needed a whipping, to my certain knowledge, for thirty years; and I pray God for her treason she may get a good one!” “Furthermore, if every man, woman, and child in the State should vote for going out, I would vote for staying in; and if every State in the Union should go except Massachusetts, I would go to Massachusetts, if I had to crawl on my hands and knees to get there!”