Thomas Bronston Collins

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• Name	Thomas Bronston Collins
  Born	4 Oct 1842	, , Kentucky, United States
  Gender	Male
  Census	2 Jun 1860	The Town Of Richmond, Madison, Kentucky, United States   [1]
  	Thomas B Collins in household of Wm Smith Collins
  Died	12 Apr 1869	Paris, , , France
  Person ID	I10400	Kull Family
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2016

  
  

  Father	William Smith Collins,   b. 27 Sep 1810, , Madison, Kentucky, United States ,   d. 30 Oct 1885, , Madison, Kentucky, United States
  Mother	Mary Ann Bronston,   b. 30 Mar 1817, , Madison, Kentucky, United States ,   d. 23 Apr 1884, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States
  Family ID	F3824	Group Sheet

  
  

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  Born Near Richmond Kentucky From Histories and Genealogies A scholar and patriot, graduating with honors at Bethany one of the first to esponse the Southern cause, entering as Buckner guards. Afterwards Captain of Company F, Kentucky Zollicoffer, when that gallant officer was killed at the battle of Mill Springs, Ky. An exile from his native land, he attended the Brussels, after which he completed his studies in Paris, and hospitals of that City, where he contracted disease of the lunds, which resulted in his death. "Your own proud and herioc soil, Shall be your fitter frave, She claims from war, her richest spoil, The ashes of her brave." He raised a Company of Madison County men, Feb. 10, 1862, of captain, known as Company F, 7th, afterwards the 11th Kentucky Colonel was D. Waller Chenault, under the command of General was a brave and efficient officer, received a wound in the of Greasy Creek. At the battle of Cynthiana, Ky., he became General Morgan's Command. His war record from that time on, is the language of his own statement, made at Montreal, Canada, whilst a prisoner. His statement exhibits the bold, daring, spirit of the man, which was made on the occasion of his and trial in the Canadian Court for his extradition to the the Canadian authorities he subsequently made his escape, and Scotia, from there to Germany, thence to Paris, France, and there whilst engaged in the study and practice of medicine, was taken sick bringing to a close the career of a most noble, chivalrous and From there his remains were brought to Richmong, Ky., and beautiful Richmond Cemetery, and his grave properly marked by read his statement: "The St. Albans Raider. Statement of the Prisoner: Montreal, The Prisoner's Voluntary Statement. All the prisoners made statements.** Statement of Thomas B. Collins: "I am a native of Kentucky, and a commissioned officer of the Confederate States, now at war with the so-called United the command of General John Morgan, and became separated from of Cynthiana, Ky. Having eluded the Yandees, I joined Young, afterwards at Chicago, knowing it to be my duty to my well as to myself, never to desert its cause, I owe no allegiance to the so-called United States, but am a foreigner, and apublic enemy Government. The Yankees dragged my father from his peaceful circle and imprisoned him in Camp Chase, where his sufferings health and mind, and my grand-father has been banished from Burbridge. They have stolen negroes and forced them into their their women and children to starve and die. They have pillaged private dwellings, banks, villages, and depopulated whole of their inhuman acts as deeds of heroism, and exhibiting Northern Cities as trophies of Federal Victories. I have violated no laws of Canada or Great Britian, whatever I Albans, i did as a confederate soldier acting under Lieutenant left St. Albans I came to Canada for protection. I entered an hotel at Stanbridge, unarmed and alone, and was arrested and Magistrate, Whitman, assisted by yankees. He had no warrant had any sworn complaint been made to him against me. About from me when I was arrested, part Confederate booty, lawfully by me as such, and part of my own private funds. I ask the money taken from me, and my discharge as demanded by the rules law. the treaty under which my extradition is claimed applies murderers, thieves and forgers. I am neither, but a soldier, in a war commenced and waged against us by a barbarous foe, in their own Constitution, -- in disregard of all the rules of warfare as interpreted by civilized nations, and christian peoples, and wise to expose themselves to danger, while they can buy negroes to fight for them -- who, while prating of neutrality, people along the border to fiolate the proclamation of your by joining their armies and leave them when captured by us to prisons in a climate unwholesome to them and in which they are die. If I adided in the sack of the St. Albans banks it was pocket nerve of the Yankees to be the most sensitive, and they most by its being rudely touched. I cared nothing for the injure the enemies of our country. Federal soldiers are bought of $1,000, a head, and the capture of $200,000, is equivolent to the destruction of 200 of said soldiers, I therefore, thought that would pay. "I guess" it did, inview of fact also, that they several thousand soldiers from the "bloody front" to protect the rear. For the part I took, I am ready to abide the that if I be extradited to the Yankee butchers my Government protect his soldiers." (At the conclusion of the above statement there were loud from all parts of the Court.) After the battle of Wild Cat, and General E. Kirby Smith's Kentucky, and the battle of Richmond Aug. 30, 1862, Captain was organized and went out from Kentucky with General Smith's the command of General Morgan. His company was composed of County's boys, as brave and daring spirits as ever shouldered a musket. Morgan's raid into the States of Indiana and Ohio -- in which one of Collins' company, was never surpassed for endurance, being in the saddle twenty one days, without rest or sleep, gotten while mounted and marching along -- the poor creatures soldiers were mounted eating only what was handed by the rider whilst in motion. The following names appear on the Muster Roll of Captain of the company having enlisted at Richmond, Ky., Sept. 10, 1862, to wit: "Thomas B. Collins, Captain, J. F. Oldham, first Lieutenant, Lieutenant, C. H. Covington, third Lieutenant, James Tevis, James Caldwell, second Sergeant, Thomas Dejarnett, third Sergeant, W. B. Benton, fourth Sergeant, S. C. Groaddus, first Corporal, second Corporal, Alex R. Fife, third Corporal, Robert Miller, Thomas Oldham, Farrier, James Miller, Blacksmith, I. Asbill, Benton, Van Benton, T. C. Broaddus, George Butler, Jack James Cosby, James Coulter, Charles Covington, Joseph Collins, Cochran, W. G. Coldiron, Joel Embry, John Hutchison, Elihu William Grubbs, Anderson Harris (killed at Greasy Creek), Jones (wounded at Greasy Creek), Meredith Jones, M. B. Judy, Archibald Kavanaugh, J. B. Mize, Travis Million, Owen McKee, Presley Oldham, Richard Oldham, James Oldham, Samuel Meeks, Ben Price, Silas Pearch, Robert Rownan, James R. Sims, John Turpin, Samuel Turpin, Haris Thorpe, Granville Troxelle, White, Joseph Watts, William Wielder, Alex Woods (died Nov. Wright, O. R. Oldham, Robert Hume, Sam Embry, T. D. Carr, J. Jones, James Grubbs, Joshua Brooks, Napoleon Brooks, Richard Cornelison, A. J. Dudley, David Irvine, Harvey Ellison, Silas Berry, William Berry, Charley Coley, Thomas Hamilton (died at Sept. 27, 1862)."

  
  

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  [S1113] 1860 United States Census, Kentucky, Madison, (National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), M653, roll M653_384, p. 141, dwelling 26, family 26, Thomas B Collins in household of Wm Smith Collins (Reliability: 3). Details/Image