Among the dead were General James West Pegram, a lawyer and banker, whose sons (General John Pegram and Colonel William Pegram) would become important Confederate officers in the Civil War. Pegram was also an important leader in the Whig party.Simmons, The Pegrams of Virginia And Their Descendants Special Postal Agent Samuel Mansfield Brown of Lexington, Kentucky, was also identified as a victim.Louisville Journal, October 28, 1844 Brown had been one of the protagonists in a famous frontier brawl at Russell Cave, Kentucky, with Cassius Marcellus Clay, a Louisville newspaperman, emancipationist, and distant cousin of Henry Clay. When he learned of Brown's demise, Cassius Clay noted that Sam Brown was the bravest of all of the many persons Clay had fought during a very combative career.Clay, The Life of Cassius Marcellus Clay, p. 82
