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Captain
Samuel Carter
Stout

Samuel Stout was known to all as Captain from his service in the Union Army, and later in the local Militia in Barren Co. But to his friends and neighbors, he was "uncle Sam'l". He was described in a biographical sketch done by the Glasgow Republican as a man "whose friends are only

limited by his acquaintances." He was a stern man and a jokester at the same time. A farmer, a writer, and a Pensioner from the War of 61. He was a lieutenant in Company C, 9th Kentucky Infantry for the Union. He retired in 1862 only to become appointed Captain of the Militia, from which he received his title. According to his superior officer R. W. Bell, Capt. Co. C. 1st Bat., 15th Regt., his commission came from his service and integrity displayed in his unit in the war. He was commended for bravery at Shiloh.

Though I never knew my great grandfather Sam, I feel as though I do, having read the articles he contributed regularly to the Union paper in Glasgow. He was a man with vision, something not extrememly prevalent or common at the time. He wrote one article titled "THEN AND NOW" where he talked about what a change had taken place in the last 65 years of his life. He noted that when he was 10, the country was independant,

"it did not use any goods, only home manufactured...farmers had a large flock of sheep, the wool was carded into rolls...every woman had a spinning wheel and a loom...The beef hides were worked out by the people...We lived independant of the manufacturers, we had plenty to eat, fat beef, hogs killed out of the woods, deer, turkey and squirrels, good corn bread and wheat bread Sunday morning, and light bread for the quality. There are not any fresh buyers nor roller mills to make our flour as in those days of passed...First class whiskey was 10 cents per quart or 25 cents per gallon, one cushell of corn for one gallon of whiskey not as much drunkenness then as now, see what a change in sixty five years. Oh what a change will be in the next sixty five years!"

I believe that Sam would not have been surprised if you had told him that we would land on the moon in those 65 years, or that I would be able to tell our family history to people all over the world from the comfort of my own home and a computer. What a change indeed, grandad!

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