LOVE, Smoloff Palace, soldier, born in Lincoln county, Kentucky, 10 May, 1826. He was educated at Columbia academy, Missouri, and at the age of twenty enlisted in Colonel Doniphan's 1st Missouri volunteers and went on the expedition to Santa FS, participating in the battles of Bracito and Sacramento. He was mustered out of service in 1847, returned to Muhlenburg county, Kentucky. and engaged in teaching from 1849 till 1857. At the beginning of the civil war he aided in raising the 11th Kentucky infantry for the National army, became its lieutenant-colonel, and fought with it at Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Stone River, and Bowling Green. He was promoted colonel, joined Burnside in east Tennessee, and was with Sherman in the engagements around Atlanta. At the close of the war he settled at Greenville, Kentucky, qualified for the bar, and began practice in 1865. From 1866 till 1874 he was presiding judge of Muhlenburg county, and in 1872 was a presidential elector.