John Washington Payne was from Franklin County, Kentucky. He fought at Ft. Donelson and at Hartsville, TN, where he captured the bugle pictured below from the Union forces in Dec. 1862.  The bugle is inscribed on the bell, "Captured at Heartsville, Tenn by J W Payne  Chief Bugler of 2nd Kenty Regt Dec 7th 1862.  Ft. Donelson,   Heartsville, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chicamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge".  For the remainder of the war, he served as Chief Bugler for the 2nd Kentucky Infantry, CSA. Payne died in Frankfort in Dec. 1882. More to come.