Prologue At 5 o'clock on the morning on November 8, 1861, U.S. Navy Lieutenant William O. Nelson, who had been charged with clearing Eastern Kentucky of the Confederate Army, marched out of Prestonsburg toward Piketon ( now Pikeville), Kentucky. With him was part of the Second, the Twenty-First and the Fifty-Ninth Ohio Regiments, the Sixteenth… Continue reading Moses D. Damron, Union Soldier, Postmaster, Farmer