Page prepared by Donald Richardson from charts of William R. Bishop, Jr. and research by author and  Samuel F. Daugherty.

Rev Daniel Linder and Lydia Ann (Funk) Richardson with family members in front of their log cabin *. Yates Chapel Rd., Hardin Co., KY (photo from Sam Daugherty collection)

Daniel Linder Richardson (3/11/1823 Hardin Co., KY [HKy] - 6/1/1904 HKy ) 
    SGT Co I 10 KY INF US
Lydia Ann Funk [d/o William and Mary Gillihan]( 2/7/1826  Washington Co., KY- 11/17/1921 HKy) m 5/15/1845 HKy

 
  Tombstones of Daniel Linder and Lydia Ann (Funk) Richardson located in the Richardson Family Cemetery on a hill overlooking the site of their log cabin. On Daniel's tombstone it reads "G.A.R. Co. I 10th KY Vol Inf 1861 ..." (note G.A.R. means Grand Army of the Republic which is what the Union (US) Army was called then) Daniel served as a Sergeant throughout the Civil War. Sgt. Daniel L. Richardson was 1 of only 29 men of  "Co. I" who were mustered out in 12/6/1864, of the men who were in the original muster of  85 on 11/21/1861. The 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry was in many bloody battles including Shiloh, Murfreesburo, Chickamaunga, Atlanta, ... **    (Photos by Donald Richardson) 

The Rev. Daniel L. Richardson was a Methodist minister after the Civil War, in Vertrees, Kentucky. 

 
 

* The log cabin was lived in until November 14, 1947, when it was destroyed by a tornado! (from account of  Mr. Duvall,  Nov. 1996, who is the current owner of the property and who survived the tornado in the kitchen of the old log cabin.)

** Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky Volumes I and II (Frankfort, KY 1866). The 10th KY Vol Inf.  served under General Sherman and General Thomas, the "Rock of  Chickamaunga", to name a few. At Jonesboro, GA , 9/1/1864, the 10th KY Vol Inf.  "... was the first regiment to break the rebel lines and captured the 6th and 7th Arkansas rebel regiments and their colors"... Company I of the 10th KY Vol Inf., even with 7 replacements, had the lowest number of men to mustered out  12/6/1864 of any company in 10th Kentucky Vol. Inf. Regiment. (note: in Volume II, the list of men  in Co. I, mustering out has only 11 names, including DLR, but the official tally shows 36 - 7 replacements).  A Company I, 10th KY Inf. (US) association has been formed by a descendant of one of the original officers:
 

Paul J. Birkhead
5817-B Post Corners Trail
Centreville, Virginia
USA 20120
 

 

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