Fry, Speed S. - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Gen. Speed S. Fry, superintendent of the Soldier’s Home recently established at Louisville is dangerously ill and can hardly recover. General Fry was born near Danville in 1817, was educated at Center and Wabash colleges, served in the Mexican war, was long the county judge at Danville, raised a regiment at the beginning of the Civil War, fought the battle of Mill Springs when with his own hand, he slew the confederate general, Felix K. Zollicoffer.  He participated in the Battle of Perryville and many other engatements. In 1862 he was made a Brigadier-General and later given command of the Eastern Division of Kentucky. Since the war he has practice law, except from 1869-1873 when he was collector of internal revenue. Gen. Fry is well known here. He attended commencement proceedings of Wabash College in June last of which institution he was the oldest living graduate.