SIDNEY M. BARNES Submitted by Frederick Nolan SIDNEY M. BARNES was born in Estill County , Kentucky on May 10,1821. On September 28, 1841 he was married to nineteen year-old Elizabeth Mize (b.August 14, 1822) at Estill Springs, near Irvine, Kentucky. A lawyer by profession, and owner of a large farm near Sturgeon, MO., he enrolled on August 26, 1861 as Colonel of the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry at Lebanon , KY. and was credited in an obituary with having participated in many of the battles of the army of the Cumberland (troops from Estill County placed the flag on Lookout Mountain). His service record shows that in December 31, 1862 he was “placed in command of a convalescent regiment from Louisville to Nashville.” He resigned his commission January 11, 1864 “because of personal affairs” and in 1868 he was the republican nominee for governor of Kentucky before moving to Little Rock, Arkansas, to practice law. In 1879 he was appointed US Attorney for the Territory of New Mexico and in 1881 successfully prosecuted William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, for the murder of Sheriff William Brady. At the end of his term he moved to Carthage , Missouri where he died of complications arising out of rheumatism contracted during the War. He left two daughters and two sons — Thomas H. and James K. Barnes--both of Fort Smith, Arkansas, at the National Cemetery of which place his body was brought to be buried in 1895 and where his widow Elizabeth lived until her death on February 25, 1904.