Veterans of The Line

This page is dedicated to those many individuals who have served their country throughout the centuries. Our family members have seen service in the French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, The Blackhawk War, Civil War (Union and Confederate), Spanish American War and World War I. We are, of course, well represented in the Twentieth Century conflicts. We shall list the conflict and the individuals involved, adding more as that information is passed along to us.

Early Colonial Militia

Phillip Yeast....Private....Militia....Flying Camp....1743
   (s/o Joshua Yeast) 

French and Indian War

Stephen Mallet,III...Pvt....Captain James Gunn's Company,
                                 Virginia Militia, Mecklen-
                                 burg County.
        (Stephen Mallet,III was the son of Olive Magdalene
         Sallee and Stephen Mallet, Jr.)

Revolutionary War

Oliver Wallace....Private....8th Virginia Regiment....1780 to 
                                    surrender at Yorktown.                                       


Jacob Yeast....Private....4th Co,7th Reg't.Maryland Line....
                                    Served the entire duration
                                    of the war.

Indian Wars (1793)

William Sallee...Pvt......Col. Horatio Hall's Regiment of
                                 Mounted Volunteers.
    (Wm. Sallee is also listed under the War of 1812)

War of 1812

Reynard Chastain Sallee...Private....Capt. McAfee's Co., Slaughter's
                                    Regiment, Ky. Detached Militia.
                                    Took part in the Battle of New
                                    Orleans.

Jacob Yeast, Jr.....Private....Capt. McAfee's Co., Slaughter's 
                                    Regiment, Ky. Detached Militia.
                                    Battle of New Orleans.

George Sallee.......Private....Capt. Benjamin Graves' Co. of Riflemen
                                    23rd Regiment, Virginia Militia,
                                    attached to 1 Corps d'Elite.

Jacob Sallee........Private....Capt. James Armstrong's Company, 
                                    4th Regiment, Kentucky Mounted
                                    Volunteer Militia.

Edward Sallee.......Sergeant...Capt.Mason Singleton's Company, 1st
                                    Regiment Kentucky Mounted Volunteer
                                    Militia. Took part in the Battle of
                                    the Thames.

William Sallee......Ensign.....Capt. Thomas Lewis' Company of Infantry,
                                    13th Regiment Kentucky Volunteers.
                                    Taken prisoner by the British in 1814
                                    and later paroled.

William J. Sallee...Private....Capt. Thomas Dollarhide's Company, Kentucky
                                    Mounted Volunteer Militia. Commanding
                                    Battalion Officer was Major Renick, and 
                                    later Major General Hopkins.

Pleasant Bartley Sallee...Pvt..Capt. John Morgan's Company, 2nd 
                                    Regiment of Virginia Militia.


THE CIVIL WAR

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Paula Wallace Atkins, Coni Theios Wallace, James Harrison Wallace