Historical Notes:
Field's Company, Kentucky (Partisan Rangers) operated throughout the hills of eastern Kentucky protecting Confederate sympathizers and raiding local Union facilities.
Officers:
Captain William Jason Fields.
Fields recruited and commanded Fields Partisan Rangers until he was wounded and captured in 1863, perhaps at Mt. Sterling KY in July 1863. Fields, was taken to Louisville, Columbus, and finally the Deleware Gap Prison Camp. Fields later died there of a typhoid epidemic. Its actually a Federal Park in New Jersey across the bay from the camp which was on an Island. The park is very small. The Daughters of the Confederacy built a massive monument there to the confederate dead (I think about 2500) which dominates the little park. All the names and ranks are recorded including Fields.
Fields' Grandson, William Jason, was elected Governor of Kentucky in the 1920s. Preston Fields served as a private in the unit and relocated to Northwest Missouri after the war.
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