Samuel McKee (1832)

Samuel McKee (1832-1862), the son of James and Mary (Cleland) McKee, was a Colonel for the Confederate States Army who served under the Third Kentucky Infantry.

He prepared for college at Danville, and went from the preparatory department to college in 1849. In 1859, he commenced the practice of the law (having studied at University of Louisville School of Law), and lived at Keokuk, Iowa, and Memphis, MO. At the beginning of the war he espoused the Federal side and entered the Third Kentucky Infantry as Captain, and took part in the battle of Shiloh. During the campaign in Kentucky, in 1862, he was present at the fight of Munfordsville as Lieutenant-Colonel of his regiment. Colonel McKee married Sarah F. Campbell on September 30, 1862. Leading his command as Colonel at the Battle of Stone River, he was killed on December 31, 1862.