Thanks for the refs to Ficklin's Battalion.

I found this also, which shows Ficklin was from Bath county, and his battalion organized in Eastern KY. Both useful pieces of info for my quest. Hoping this helps someone else. Here is a link to an excerpt from a Google book. "A genealogical history of the Ficklin family, from the first of the name in ..."

http://books.google.com/books?id=ReJMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA75&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2uECZ0F4EFUlkEKMOkKZFYKq200g&ci=137%2C154%2C618%2C587&edge=0