| Name |
Henry Oldham Magruder |
| Birth |
8 Feb 1840 |
Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
8 Apr 1864 |
Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA |
| Burial |
Magruder Cemetery, Lebanon Junction, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA |
 Siblings |
5 brothers and 4 sisters |
| | 1. Susan Cassandra Magruder, b. 7 Aug 1825, Kentucky, USA d. cir 1886 (Age 60 years)
▻ ? Gatton; George W. Maraman, m. 13 Jan 1842 | | | 2. George W. S. Magruder, b. 27 Jun 1828, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA d. 16 Jul 1897, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA (Age 69 years)
▻ Julia M. Coombs, m. 30 Oct 1849 | | | 3. Sarah Elizabeth Magruder, b. 12 Apr 1831, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA d. 24 Jul 1849, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA (Age 18 years) | | | 4. Julia Magruder, b. cir 1832, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA d. Bef 1926 (Age 93 years) | | | 5. William Levi Magruder, b. 25 Jul 1833 d. 18 Jul 1849 (Age 15 years) | | | 6. Mary Ellen Magruder, b. 4 Nov 1835, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA d. 1925 (Age 89 years)
▻ Charles R. Samuels, m. 8 Nov 1853 ; Christian Harshfield Barrell, m. 18 Sep 1877 | | | 7. Samuel Frederick Magruder, b. 10 Dec 1837, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA d. 8 Jan 1929, Kevil, Ballard County, Kentucky, USA (Age 91 years)
▻ Rebecca Ann Foreman, m. 8 Oct 1861 | | | 8. Henry Oldham Magruder, b. 8 Feb 1840, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA d. 8 Apr 1864, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA (Age 24 years) | | | 9. Ezekiel Elimelech Magruder, b. 9 Jul 1844, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA d. 27 Mar 1863, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA (Age 18 years) | | | 10. Archibald Francis Magruder, b. 10 Dec 1847, Belmont, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA d. 10 Oct 1855, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA (Age 7 years) |
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| Notes |
- From the website http://southernmessenger.org/the_gray_ghost_column.htm
CONFEDERATE MARTYR
HENRY C. MAGRUDER
(1843 - 1865)
Henry C. Magruder, he was born 1843 in Lebanon
Junction, Bullitt Co., Kentucky, by Amy Magruder.
Magruder's great-grandfather was the Revolutionary War veteran
Archibald Magruder. A Brass Placque over his gravestone indicates:
Pvt, 4th Co., 29th Battalion of the State Militia of Maryland, 1778.
He is buried in a Magruder cemetery at Bernheim Forest.
Magruder's grandfather was Ezekiel Magruder (1790 - 1863).
Joining the Confederate States Army when 17 and serving in General
Simon B. Buckner's command Magruder took part in the battle of Fort
Donelson in February, 1862. Fort Donelson on Cumberland River was
targeted by the Union in an effort to cut the Confederacy in two by moving
via the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers down the Mississippi River
to the Gulf.
Magruder belonged to those 13,000 Confederates captured at Fort
Donelson by the Union forces of General Ulysses S. Grant.
Escaping from Fort Donelson he became a member of Confederate
General Albert Sidney Johnston's bodyguard. Gen. Johnston, born in
Kentucky but a Republic of Texas war veteran and Secretary of War
of the Republic, had been assigned command of the Western
Department by President Jefferson Davis. After the Confederate
defeats at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson he moved his line of defense
to the vicinity of Nashville, Tennessee, and later to Corinth, Mississippi.
He was killed in the Battle of Shiloh on 6 April, 1862, leading his forces.
Once more Henry C. Magruder had to seek a new Confederate
command. He joined as a soldier in General John Morgan's command.
Taking part in General Morgan's Great Ohio raid he escaped capture.
The raid began when General Morgan with 2,500 men in the beginning
of July 1863 crossed the Ohio River. The forces struck to the northeast
across Indiana into Ohio but had to surrender at Salineville, Ohio, in face
of large Union forces.
Returning to Kentucky Magruder formed a guerrilla command that was
active during 1864 in the area south of Louisville.
In February, 1865, Magruder and other Confederate guerrillas including
Jerome Clarke (Sue Mundy), a famous Kentucky irregular, were southeast
of Hawesville, Hancock County, when ambushed by Unionist Home
Guardsmen. They fired at the guerrillas with .44-caliber Ballard repeaters.
Magruder charged them on horseback but was hit in the right arm and the
bullet lodged in his lower chest or abdomen.
Retreating and riding off toward Cloverport, the guerrilla command was
ambushed a second time. Now Magruder was wounded by a bullet in
the right lung. The wounded Magruder with Clarke and Henry Metcalfe,
a Ohio County guerrilla, managed to avoid Union troops for two weeks.
Magruder was treated by a doctor in Breckinridge County. Acting on a
tip of an informer Union soldiers found the guerrillas in a barn near the
doctor's residence. Surrounded they were captured on March 12, 1865.
Clarke was tried, sentenced to death and hanged on March 15, while
Magruder was kept alive by the Federals in a Louisville prison to be
tried, sentenced to death and executed by hanging on the 20th of October,
1865, over six months after the surrender at Appomattox. He reached the
age of 22 years.
By coincidence Missouri Confederate guerrilla Colonel William C.
Quantrill for a few weeks came to languish in the same Federal prison
in Louisville as Magruder. Quantrill, on his final Kentucky raid, was
captured and mortally wounded on 10th May, 1865, at Wakefield,
Kentucky, and brought to the military prison hospital at Tenth Street
and Broadway in Louisville. There Quantrill lay dying until just before
he expired he was transported to a Catholic Hospital. He passed
away on June 6th and his last words has been said to be: "Boys, get
ready, steady". Quantrill was 27 years old.
The reason the Missourian Quantrill and Marcellus Jerome Clarke
(alias Sue Mundy) are so well known is that they both had
newspapermen, who wrote about them, but Magruder had no sponsor
in the media. As you all know Quantrill was made famous by John
Edwards, who fought in Jo Shelby's Iron Brigade and then followed
Shelby to Mexico after the war. Edwards was the historian of this
unique expedition and chronicler of the activities of Shelby's Iron
Brigade. In the last twenty years of Edward's life he wrote about
Quantrill and his men in daily newspapers in Missouri and in 1877
the book Noted Guerrillas was published.
In the case of Clarke it was, as you all know, George Prentice,
editor of the Louisville Daily Journal, that made the Kentucky
guerrilla captain famous, but for the wrong reasons. He claimed
Clarke was a female guerrilla named Sue Mundy, and the readers
were fascinated.
February 2000 Bertil Haggman©
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| Person ID |
I10398 |
Private |
| Last Modified |
10 Nov 1999 |
Genealogy of the Bryan and Martin Families
1840 - 1864 (24 years)
