Description Lieutenant Josiah B.
Josiah and his two wives are buried sid.
He died April 20, 1919 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Josiah was born December 24, 1838 in Ballardsville, Kentucky.
Emma died in 1924.
He then married Emma Mc Grath in 1874.
Henson, who died in 1870.
Josiah first married Mary V.
Josiah was quite an inventor and had a number of patents over the years, including the tabulator key for typewriters.
Army and British Army.
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Post Office, U.
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Harbison and Gathright was a well known company that over the years had contracts with the U.
During the Civil War Josiah helped design the "Morgan" saddle which was very popular in Southern States for many years.
Harbison joined the company.
Using skills he leaned while serving in the army, Josiah started a saddle and harness manufacturing company in Louisville, Kentucky in 1866 which became Harbison and Gathright in 1869 when John B.
Josiah describes his opinion of General Bragg being a failure as a combat commander and General Bragg\'s attempts to disband General Morgan\'s cavalry and turn them into infantry.
After returning to Confederate service Josiah encountered Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan at Franklin, Tennessee, when General Morgan was on his way to Richmond After escaping from the Ohio Penitentiary.
Lieutenant Gathright describes the journey back to Confederate lines, including an attempted mutiny, and then goes on to describe his activities during the rest of the Civil War.
After a disaster attempting to cross the Ohio River into Indiana at Twelve Mile Island, Lieutenant Gathright led forty two survivors, who were on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, back to Confederate lines.
Lieutenant Gathright was part of a diversion force sent toward Louisville by General Morgan in an attempt to conceal the fact that he planned to cross the Ohio River at Brandenburg, Kentucky.
Gathright was a member of the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry that participated in Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan\'s July 1863 Indiana-Ohio Raid.
Description Lieutenant Josiah B
