JACOB
JACOBI
Federal relations in 1861 sought abeyance of the
rights of the government until the question of
secession could be submitted to the people. The
report in favor of remaining loyal to the govern-
ment was drafted by him, submitted to the
house and adopted Jan. 27, 1861, by a vote of
forty-eight to forty-seven. This was follovved by
Governor Magoffin's message ordering both armies
to keep off the soil of Kentucky, and when Presi-
dent Lincoln called for troops, Magoffin I'efused,
and to save the state to the union Captain Jacob,
w^ith the other ojiponents to secession in the leg-
islature, endorsed the governor's position, and on
May 24, 1861, voted, forty-eight to forty-seven, in
favor of mediatorial neutrality. The legislature
ordered an election for new members in Julj',
1861, resulting in seventy -six Union and twen-
ty-four Secession representatives, with senators
in equal proportion. Captain Jacob was re-
elected by four hundred majority as a Coercion
candidate. On the meeting of the legislature in
September it demanded, by a vote of seventy-six
to twenty-six in the house and twenty-five to
nine in the senate, that the three Confederate
armies within the boundaries of the state should
withdraw unconditionally. This was followed by
a set of resolutions offered by Representative
Jacob, which claimed that the Federal army oc-
cupied its own soil for purjDoses of defence in pur-
suance of a constitutional right. The resolutions
were adopted by both houses without a call of the
ayes and nays. Captain Jacob was authorized by
General Anderson to raise three regiments of
infantry, but the purjwse was thwarted by Gov-
ernor Magoffin's order of consolidation, and in
June, 1862, Jacob proposed through the public
press to be one of 2000 men to take their own
horses and drive General Morgan beyond the state.
On July 27, 1862, he obtained authority to raise
the 12th Kentucky regiment of cavalry for twelve
months' service, and in five days he had men
enough for two full regiments. On Sept. 3, 1862,
part of his regiment was in the battle at Rich-
mond, Ky., under General Nelson, and on Octo-
ber 1 marched with Buell from Louisville. On
Oct. 3, 1862, with half his regiment, he encoun-
tered Scott's brigade, and on October 6 drove
them as well as Governor Haws's Secession gov-
ernment out of Frankfort. He next encountered
Gen. Kirby Smith, and barely escaped capture,
becoming separated from his command, and res-
cued, desperately wounded, by eleven men of the
14th Oliio regiment. While invalided at his home
in Louisville, his wife died, and he returned to
his regiment Jan. 14, 1863. He rescued his men
from an overwhelming cavalry force of General
Morgan, defeated him at Horse Shoe Bend, May
11, 1863, after pursuing him along the Cumber-
land river to the crossing of the Ohio at Branden-
berg, and gave him chase through Indiana and
Ohio, resulting in his capture near Salineville,
July 26, 1863. On Sept. 9, 1863, he was mustered
out of the service, eighteen days after his regi-
ment had been discharged. He had been elected
lieutenant-governor of Kentucky, March 19, 1863,
and he served, 1863-64. In the Presidential elec-
tion of 1864 he supported McClellan and Pendleton.
He opposed the enlistment of negro troops as cal-
culated to destroy Union sentiment in the border
states and engender desertions from the Union
army. When President Lincoln was re-elected
in November, Colonel Jacob was arrested by order
of General Burbridge and carried to Louisville
and thence across the country into the enemy's
lines, without being allowed to meet his accusers.
He refused a high commission in the Confederate
army, and on reaching Richmond he wrote Presi-
dent Lincoln, forwarding the letter by George D.
Prentice, and obtained from the President safe
conduct through the Fedei'al lines to Washington,
where he arrived Jan. 16, 1865. The President
received him kindly, patiently listened to the
story of his arrest and persecution by the military
government of Kentucky, and directed him to re-
turn to his home, and in a few weeks General Bur-
bridge was superseded by General Palmer. Jacob
was not received with favor by the military gov-
erement, but maintained his right to free speech
through liis personal courage and determination.
On June 6, 1865, he was married to Laura,
daughter of Dr. Wilson, of Lexington, and they
had four sons and one daughter. She died Sept.
21, 1895. In 1867 he was defeated in the election
for representative in the 40th congress by Asa P.
Grover, the ex-Confederates having obtained con-
trol of the state, and Colonel Jacob, having re-
mained loyal to the government, obtained no
political favors. In 1882 he was defeated by Col.
J. H. McHenry for the clerkship of the court of
appeals, although he received about 75,000 votes.
He was park commissioner of Louisville, 1895-99;
member of the G.A.R., and general commanding
the Tennessee, Kentvicky and Indiana Union Vet-
erans' ur.i ,n. In 1900 he prepared in MS. the
story of the early struggles of the Union men of
Kentucky to prevent the secession of the state.
JACOBI, Abraham, physician, was born at Hartum, Germany, May 6, 1830. He was edu- cated at the gymnasium of Minden and the uni- versities of Greifswald, 1847-48, Gottingen, 1848- 49, and Bonn, 1849-51, receiving the degree of M.D. from the last named in 1851. Becoming imbued with the Revolutionary ideas of the time he was imprisoned for treason, 1851-53. Upon his release he went to Manchester, England, and thence to New York, where he practised medicine. He was professor of the diseases of children in the New York Medical college, 1860-
