From an interesting article written for The Crittenden Press in Dec. 1954. Written and shared by Mrs. Cora Moore Enoch.
My mother, Sarah, was the daughter of Capt. Richard F. Minner, Company E, 48th Kentucky Regiment.
She was born and raised in Crittenden County on January 2, 1854, being seven years of age when the Civil War broke out. In which her father and oldest brother served.
My mother, Sarah, could remember many things that took place. She never tired of telling some of them.
One day about noon a bunch of raider came to their farm, taking their horses, bridles and saddles (which were new) and all the things they found of any value.
Her mother, Catherine Minner Moore, rolled the boys' suits in a sheet and put them in the flour barrel. The raiders looked everywhere else but there, and that was all the clothes they left.
Mother had two brothers at home at the time, too young for the army.
Mother had a gold ring her father had sent her from Shepherdsville where he was stationed. She had put it in the clock for safe keeping but the raiders found it.
Mother saw a man put it in his pocket. In later years she saw the same man and recognized him long after the war ended.
My father, P. C. Moore, was a Sergeant under my grandfather's Company.
Another time the raiders came when my grandfather was home on leave. They were going to take him prisoner. Grandfather hid on the porch roof, under the eaves of the house until they were gone.
Richard Franklin Minner served the duration of the war.
Here is his tombstone at the Hurricane Cemetery.
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