This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xcx.2ACIB/1932 Message Board Post: It is my belief from what I have read, that Lt. John Love of Fort Leavenworth's Co. B (Love's Defeat) is the same man as Gen. John H. Love who commanded a division in defense of Cincinnati in the Civil War (The John Love Papers.) Please correct me if this is in error. The story that I am interested in involves John H. Love's father, who rumor states, was also a military man. It is said that his father, who was from Virginia, was first married to "Luci" Clinton who died in child birth in the early 1800's. He left this child, a son, with his wife's family and later remarried a southern girl in TN, but never returned for his son. We are reaching for a long shot here, but Clinton Love was born in 1804, and he cannot be found in the records of any Love family of that period, and we have suspected that he may have been raised by a family of Clintons. Gen John H. Love's father, if I am correct was Richard Henly Love of Virginia who married Eliza Lee, but I have found no records indicating that Richard was in the service. John had two older brothers who died young and one older brother who served in the U.S. Navy. I am wondering if Clinton might have been a half-brother of John H. Love, and the son by Richard's first marriage. Was Richard Henley Love married briefly to "Luci" (Lucinda or Lucretia, perhaps) Clinton who died young while giving birth to their son? Was this son possibly Clinton Love, b. 1804? And Was Richard Henley Love a General from Virginia? This is one of the best possibilities our branch of researchers has come across in decades that might help us to identify Clinton Love....our brickwall. If you can supply any information about this story, confirming or negating, please do so. We are desperate to learn the truth about our gggrandfather, Clinton Love. :-( Thanks, Shirley