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Hunting for Lt. Col. George P. Jouett

After reading the message about Company A of the Fifteenth, I got to thinking about some of the prominent men in the unit for whom I've never been able to find photographs.

Number 1 on my "most-wanted" list is Lt. Col. George P. Jouett. George was from Lexington, Kentucky, the son of the nationally famous artist, Matt Jouett, and his wife, Margaret Allen. Jouett studied medicine, and practiced for several years, but then he switched to law. He was elected mayor of Lexington in 1848. Ultimately, he drifted to Louisville and the Home Guards. He apparently did sculpture good enough to follow his father into the art world, but never pursued it. Lt. Col. Jouett was killed at the Battle of Perryville.

Has anyone ever run across a photo of Lt. Col. Jouett? Coming from such a prominent family -- his brother was an Admiral in the Union Navy -- I would think they would exist, but 14 years of looking in every source I can think of has turned up nothing. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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