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William Jason Fields: Military Service: Deid in Fort Deleware, New Jersey POW camp during the Civil War.

From "Early families of Eastern and Southern Kentucky"
Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, John M. Gresham Company, Chicago-Philadelphia, 1896 Page 16
& Vital Statistics of Carter County, Kentucky 1852-62.

WILLIAM JASON FIELDS, Farmer, public official and officer in the Confederate Army was born in East Tennessee, February 25, 1819. When 17 years of age, about 1836, he migrated to the vivinity of Fielden, present Elliott County, KY, then Lawrence County, and about three years later he married in that county a Rebecca Boggs, born in KY in 1827, daughter of James Boggs. Soon after the marriage he located on the Boggs farm near present Hitchins, Carter County, and two years later he purchased for the sum of $400. a one thousand acre tract of land on "Lick Branch" (being practically all the land on the branch) near Reedville, Carter Co. Here he built his permanent home and here he lived until he entered the Confederate Army in 1862. The stream was called Fields Branch after William Fields, the first permanent settler, which name it has since borne.

William became interested in Carter County politics early in life and was elected and served as Sheriff of Carter County for four terms. He was defeated for a fourth term by Stephen England. However after the expiration of Mr. England's term he was again elected and was serving as Sheriff when the Civil War broke out. A Democrat in Politics, Sheriff Fields acquiesced in the policy of neutrality adopted by the State with respect to secession and endeavored, in good faith, to remain neutral in the great conflict and to continue to perform his official duties of Sheriff, but the bitterness engendered by the local strife of the times decreed a different fate for Sheriff Fields. Three companies of 22nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (Union) were recruited and organized at Grayson (1861), the seat of justice of Carter COunty. The Captain of one of those companies demandded of Sheriff Fields that he resign his office and enlist in the company, informing him that if he did not enlist voluntarily he would force him to do so. Sheriff Fields replied, cooly and firmly, so it was reported, in the presence of many persons that his people were in the South, his sympathies with the South, and that he would not take up arms against the land of his birth; that if he was forced into the war he would cast his fortunes with the Confederacy. He returned to his home on Field Branch that afternoon; and that night, near the midnight hour, he was awakened from sleep by the barking of the family dog and the clatter of horses hoofs. Knowing full well the meaning of this alarm, he sprang from his bed, grabbed his shoes with one hand, and his cloths with the other and hurriedly made his exit through the real door into the night, just as a musket was fired at the dog which had challenged the invaders right to enter its masters home. Returning to the house after the Union Soldiers had searched it and departed, he bade his family goodbye, saddled his favorite horse and rode to the home of his brother-in-law, Absolam Rucker; and from thence he went to Camp Mocassin in Virginia, where, on March 22, 1862, he was commissioned a 2nd Litutenant Company "G", 5th Reginebt Kentucky Volunteers (consolidated). Later resigning his commissionm he returned to Eastern Kentucky and recruited Fields' Company of Partisan Rangers, C.S.A. of which he was made the Captain.

The orginization served under General Humphrey Marshall in the Big Sandy River and Southwest Virginia campaigns.
In 1863 wile in East Tennessee, Captain Fields was taken a prisoner by the Union forces and sent to Louisville, Kentucky, then to camp Chase, Ohio, and finally to Fort Delaware on the island in the Delaware river. Here on about July 2, 1864, Captain Fields and about 2,400 other Confederate prisoners died of smallpox. They were buried in a "trench" on the New Jersey shore of the river. A monument errected on the site by the Daughters of the Confederacy recites these facts.

The sureties on Sheriff Field's official bond were Samuel Mc David, Absolom Rucker, John Jordan and John Armstrong, who took over his Little Fork Lands. The Sheriff's default was never pressed by the State to the extennating circumstances.

One daughter and five sons were born to Captain Willian Jason Fields and his wife, Rebecca (Boggs) Fields.
MATILDA FIELDS b. in Cater Co. in 1845; m first James Dickerson, and they had one child; "Sissie" Dickerson. After his death she married Charles Fowler. They migrated to Washington State and she died at Everett. that State, December 22, 1930 at the advanced age of 86 years.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS FIELDS.
JAMES A. (Captain) FIELDS.
WALTER A. FIELDS.
ELIHU N. FIELDS.
LEANDER CALLOWAY FIELDS.

Some of the information about this family came from Paul ADAMS, 5705 Glenn Street, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662 USA
740-776-4387, peadams@@zoomnet.net
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