Hugh Love — Civil War veteran and Chloride prospector
Love served in the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteers (Roundhead regiment), fighting in the Burnside campaign in North Carolina in 1861–1862 [3]. In 1863 he went with the 9th Corps to Vicksburg, then Tennessee, and was at the Siege of Knoxville [3]. He returned to Virginia with the 9th Corps in 1864 and fought in Grant’s campaign; he distinguished himself at the Battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864 [1][3]. Louis police force [2]. Unarmed, he fought six rounds—landing blows on her nose, grappling, and finally forcing her over a cliff before retrieving his rifle and shooting her [4][6][5]. Vincent’s Hospital in Santa Fe in the summer of 1885 [5].
Sources
- Silver City Enterprise — 1888-1890 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1890-07-13 (1890)g the month of May, 1881, Hugh Love had one of the most thrilling and desperate en- counters with a bear that ever man had and live to narrate it. It is one instant where facts are stranger than fiction.…
- Hugh was a perfect specimen of physical… (1890)Hugh was a perfect specimen of physical manhood standing 6 ft. 2 inches in his stocking feet. He had served several years on the police
- Hugh was an old soldier, a veteran of the… (1890)Hugh was an old soldier, a veteran of the celebrated Pennsylvania Roundhead regiment, the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteers, participat- ing in the Burnside campaign in North Carolina in 1861 and 1862, in the campaign …
- force in St… (1890)force in St. Louis and patrolled one of the hardest beats in the city. He was prospecting in the upper part of the range west of Chloride on the side of a mountain. Having occasion to stop a few minutes he …
- climb back, but the slide rock gave way under… (1890)climb back, but the slide rock gave way under her, giving Hugh time to get his gun and send a ball through her brain. He sank back bleed- ing and exhausted, lacerated and bruised from head to foot, his left …
- force in St… (1890)ug but only succeeded in getting his left hand in her mouth, when he met her with a stinging blow on her nose which knocked her down and released his hand but not until it had been stripped of its flesh. …