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Kay, Reuben: Sword & Scabbard used in Military School & Civil War, c. 1860Entry/Object ID
P1993.1H.116Description
Kay, Reuben: Sword & Scabbard used in Military School & Civil War, c. 1860. Photo of the sword and its scabbard owned by Reuben Kay, donated to SJM by his descendant in 1966. Kay is shown wearing this sword in photo# 93.1H.115. He likely used it in the Civil War as below. See Objects 66.24.1-4, for the actual sword, sash, epaulets, buckle, in SJM Collection
Kay was important in St. Joseph's Confederate effort, a one-time prisoner of war of Union Army camps including Johnson's Island. SJM has letter Kay wrote home in its collection. (94.23.9)
St. Joseph, Missouri resident Reuben Kay was an aide to Colonel John Taylor Hughes, 1st Infantry, 4th Division, Missouri State Guard (Confederate) and fought at Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861.
Kay was a graduate of the Kentucky Military Institute. Later in the war, Kay served as adjutant of the 7th Missouri Cavalry and became assistant adjutant general on the staff of General M. Jeff Thompson.
In August 1863 he was captured in Randolph County, Arkansas and was sent to prison camps in Alton, Illinois, St. Louis, and Johnson's Island, Ohio, before being paroled in early 1865. After the war he returned to St. Joseph, but finding it changed, he moved to Frankfort, Tennessee, and went into the dry goods business. Reuben Kay died of pneumonia on December 18, 1883 at the age of 44.Lexicon
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66.24.1 A, 66.24.1 B, 66.24.2 A, 66.24.2 B, 66.24.3 A-B, 66.24.4, AM1966.024.00008, AM1966.024.00009, AM1994.023.00008, AM1994.023.00009, P1993.01H.00115, P1993.01H.00117, P1993.01H.00122