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William Dudley Chipley
William Dudley Chipley (June 6, 1840 – December 1, 1897) was an American railroad executive and politician who was instrumental in the building of the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad and was a tireless promoter of Pensacola, his adopted city, where he was elected to one term as mayor, and later to a term as Florida state senator.
Following the American Civil War, in 1868 Chipley was one of many men arrested in his hometown of Columbus, Georgia, on suspicion of participation in the murder of Radical Republican judge George W. Ashburn by the local Ku Klux Klan. However, the key witness, American soldier Charles Marshall, who confessed to being a participant at the murder, testified that a man of Chipley's size had been the leader outside but he could not state with certainty it was Chipley and added that he had "not had any acquaintance with Chipley".
In October 1868, Chipley along with M.M. Moore, J.S. Pemberton, Frank Gunby, and J. Gunby Jordan established Columbus, Georgia's first fire corporation, The Rescue Hook & Ladder Co.
In 1877, Chipley helped Texas Rangers and Florida law officers subdue and arrest outlaw John Wesley Hardin aboard a train in Pensacola. Hardin was subsequently returned to Texas, convicted on outstanding murder charges, and imprisoned.
Chipley was born in Columbus, Georgia, but when he was four, his parents, Dr. William Stout Chipley and Elizabeth Fannin Chipley, returned to Lexington, Kentucky, where Chipley's grandfather, the Rev. Stephen Chipley, was one of the founding citizens of Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Chipley was renowned for his work relating to brain diseases and held two jobs: a professor of medicine at Transylvania University and the warden of the Eastern Asylum for the Insane in Lexington.
He graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute and Transylvania University. Afterwards, he worked as a clerk for the T.H. Hunt & Co. in Louisville, Kentucky, which manufactured bags and rope.
When his employer, Thomas H. Hunt, raised a regiment to fight with the Confederacy, Chipley joined him, later becoming his Adjutant. This regiment became the 9th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War. He participated with his unit initially as Sergeant Major (Oct 1861) and then appointed 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant on March 1, 1863. He fought in several engagements with the Army of Tennessee, even after his mentor, Col. Hunt resigned in April 1863 to establish a business in Augusta to support his family. He was wounded at the battles of Shiloh, accidentally wounded at Corinth. He fought at Stones River, Jackson, and Chickamauga, where he was wounded again. He fought at Dalton, Rocky Face Gap, Resaca, Dallas, Atlanta, and finally taken prisoner at the Battle of Peachtree Creek near Atlanta, where he was serving as a Captain. As a prisoner of war, Chipley was transported to Johnson's Island on Lake Erie in Ohio, and was interned there until the war was over. In mid-1865, he settled in Columbus and married Ann Elizabeth Billups, the daughter of a prominent planter in Phenix City, Alabama, just across the Chattahoochee River from Columbus.
As president of the young men's Democratic club of Columbus, Chipley had made himself obnoxious to the carpetbaggers and scalawags, black and white, in that city and to that fact was charged in the murder of George W. Ashburn by what was later described as the "Columbus Ku Klux Klan". Ashburn, a Radical Republican member of the Georgia government, was murdered on March 31, 1868, following warnings by outspoken Democrats to cease his outspoken support for Reconstruction. In the resultant investigation into his murder, Chipley and others were identified by witness Amanda Patterson, who had been the prostitute with Ashburn, as one of several men who broke into the house Ashburn was visiting; Patterson also told investigators that Chipley had, prior to the murder, told her "We are going to kill old Ashburn the night of the day he speaks [at a political meeting]." Previously, she had testified she did not know Chipley or any other of the men whom she had said she had known.
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William Dudley Chipley
William Dudley Chipley (June 6, 1840 – December 1, 1897) was an American railroad executive and politician who was instrumental in the building of the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad and was a tireless promoter of Pensacola, his adopted city, where he was elected to one term as mayor, and later to a term as Florida state senator.
Following the American Civil War, in 1868 Chipley was one of many men arrested in his hometown of Columbus, Georgia, on suspicion of participation in the murder of Radical Republican judge George W. Ashburn by the local Ku Klux Klan. However, the key witness, American soldier Charles Marshall, who confessed to being a participant at the murder, testified that a man of Chipley's size had been the leader outside but he could not state with certainty it was Chipley and added that he had "not had any acquaintance with Chipley".
In October 1868, Chipley along with M.M. Moore, J.S. Pemberton, Frank Gunby, and J. Gunby Jordan established Columbus, Georgia's first fire corporation, The Rescue Hook & Ladder Co.
In 1877, Chipley helped Texas Rangers and Florida law officers subdue and arrest outlaw John Wesley Hardin aboard a train in Pensacola. Hardin was subsequently returned to Texas, convicted on outstanding murder charges, and imprisoned.
Chipley was born in Columbus, Georgia, but when he was four, his parents, Dr. William Stout Chipley and Elizabeth Fannin Chipley, returned to Lexington, Kentucky, where Chipley's grandfather, the Rev. Stephen Chipley, was one of the founding citizens of Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Chipley was renowned for his work relating to brain diseases and held two jobs: a professor of medicine at Transylvania University and the warden of the Eastern Asylum for the Insane in Lexington.
He graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute and Transylvania University. Afterwards, he worked as a clerk for the T.H. Hunt & Co. in Louisville, Kentucky, which manufactured bags and rope.
When his employer, Thomas H. Hunt, raised a regiment to fight with the Confederacy, Chipley joined him, later becoming his Adjutant. This regiment became the 9th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War. He participated with his unit initially as Sergeant Major (Oct 1861) and then appointed 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant on March 1, 1863. He fought in several engagements with the Army of Tennessee, even after his mentor, Col. Hunt resigned in April 1863 to establish a business in Augusta to support his family. He was wounded at the battles of Shiloh, accidentally wounded at Corinth. He fought at Stones River, Jackson, and Chickamauga, where he was wounded again. He fought at Dalton, Rocky Face Gap, Resaca, Dallas, Atlanta, and finally taken prisoner at the Battle of Peachtree Creek near Atlanta, where he was serving as a Captain. As a prisoner of war, Chipley was transported to Johnson's Island on Lake Erie in Ohio, and was interned there until the war was over. In mid-1865, he settled in Columbus and married Ann Elizabeth Billups, the daughter of a prominent planter in Phenix City, Alabama, just across the Chattahoochee River from Columbus.
As president of the young men's Democratic club of Columbus, Chipley had made himself obnoxious to the carpetbaggers and scalawags, black and white, in that city and to that fact was charged in the murder of George W. Ashburn by what was later described as the "Columbus Ku Klux Klan". Ashburn, a Radical Republican member of the Georgia government, was murdered on March 31, 1868, following warnings by outspoken Democrats to cease his outspoken support for Reconstruction. In the resultant investigation into his murder, Chipley and others were identified by witness Amanda Patterson, who had been the prostitute with Ashburn, as one of several men who broke into the house Ashburn was visiting; Patterson also told investigators that Chipley had, prior to the murder, told her "We are going to kill old Ashburn the night of the day he speaks [at a political meeting]." Previously, she had testified she did not know Chipley or any other of the men whom she had said she had known.
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