Colonel W W Faulkner organized a company of Partisan Rangers in Kentucky in May 1862.  After capture in the Island No 10 campaign and later exchanged, he was promoted to Lt Colonel in the spring of 1863. Later that year, he organized a regiment in west Tennessee and Kentucky, which he brought out with Nathan Bedford Forrest in December 1863. On January 28, 1864, his regiment was formally mustered into Confederate service as the 12th Kentucky. He was promoted to Colonel at this time. He participated in all of Forrest's subsequent campaigns until wounded in the Battle of Harrisburg. Late in 1864 he was killed by a band of deserters near Dresden, Tennessee. Faulkner was one of the most successful Partisan Rangers, and is buried north of County Road 1105 at mile marker #10.