The Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia
1920. Madison County [pp.182-183] [Portrait in original document.]

     GREEN CLAY GOODLOE.  Brigadier-General, U. S. Marine Corps
(Retired).  January 31, 1845-February 3, 1917.
     Green Clay Goodloe, son of General David Short Goodloe and Sally Ann
Clay Smith Goodloe, was born at Castle Union, Madison County, Kentucky,
January 31, 1845 on the plantation of his grandfather, Colonel John Speed
Smith.  He was a great-grandson of General Green Clay, for whom he was
named, an officer in the Revolutionary War and a member of the
Constitutional Convention in 1789.  He was also on the maternal side a
great-great-grandson of James Speed a Lieutenant in Cocke’s Militia
Regiment; another great-great grandsire was Thomas Lewis, a Lieutenant in
the Continental Army, 11th Infantry (1778).
     When the Civil War became imminent the Goodloe family in Kentucky,
threw their powerful influence on the side of the Union.  No one thing
did more to hold that State then wavering true to her allegiance to the
Federal Union.
     Green Clay Goodloe, then a boy of 16 was a marker in the Lexington
Chasseurs; and carried the United States Flag the last time it appeared
in a parade of the Old Kentucky State Guard.  Later in that year he
joined the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment and was mustered into the
Federal service October 16, 1862, joining it at Wartrace, Tennessee, as
it stood in line of battle.  In all, he was in ten cavalry battles and
skirmishes during the Civil War.  For his gallant conduct at the Battle
of Lebanon, Tennessee, General Dumont recommended his promotion to First
Lieutenant.  Surgeon Adams supplies us the details: "Clay Goodloe kept in
line with Colonel Smith and was grazed on the third joint of the second
finger by a bullet.  He is a gallant and noble boy, yet beardless, but
had the courage of a veteran."
     Later he served with Company I of the 23d Kentucky Infantry
Volunteers from which regiment he was detailed as aide-de-camp on the
staff of his Uncle, General Green Clay Smith.  At the cavalry battle of
Little Harpeth, Forrest’s men completely surrounded and cut him off.  The
official report says "Lieutenant Clay Goodloe of General Smith’s staff in
returning from delivering an order found himself surrounded by rebels and
had to run the gauntlet.  After emptying his holster pistols, he laid
flat on his horse, relying upon his spurs and his ‘Lexington.’  They
brought him safely home, but he had a bullet-hole through his pants to
remind him of the amiable intentions of his Southern brethren."
     In September 1863 Green Clay Goodloe resigned his commission in the
Volunteers to enter the United States Military Academy at West Point to
study law at the Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky.
     On April 21, 1869 he accepted appointment as a Second Lieutenant, U.
S. Marine Corps, served at various shore stations and at sea on board the
U. S. S. Wachusetts and the U. S. S. Michigan; promoted First Lieutenant
January 12, 1876; appointed Major and Paymaster U. S. Marine Corps March
17, 1877, promoted to Colonel and Paymaster March 3, 1899.  On January
31, 1909 he was placed on the retired list with the advance rank of
Brigadier-General, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired).
     General Goodloe was a member of the Virginia Society of the Order of
the Cincinnati; The Loyal Legion (commander in 1913-1914); the Grand Army
of the Republic, Kit Carson Post, and the Army of the Cumberland.  He was
a member of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia for
twenty-seven years serving as its President for the year 1899.
     General Goodloe’s first wife was Betty Buckner Beck, daughter of
United States Senator James Burnie Beck, of Kentucky.  He is survived by
his second wife, who was Marian Campbell Johnson, and one son, Green Clay
Goodloe, Jr.

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