Mark Carroll is the Great grandson of Private Russell Cornett of Company B, 10th Mounted Rifles,"Caudill's Army", CSA. The Camp set a stone for him in the Combs Cemetery on Upper Second Creek in Hazard, Kentucky. Mark came into the SCV under Russell. Russell married the sister of his messmate, John J. Amburgey. Russell was the grandson of Revolutionary War soldier William Jesse Cornett, and the son of John Cornett and Rachel (Kelly) Branham Smith

Mark's maternal Great Grand Uncle is Private John Jesse Amburgey, who also served the Cause in Company B, 10th MR, Caudill's Army. John was captured at Gladesville with Ben Caudill on July 7, 1873 and sent north to a prisoner of war camp for the duration of the war. He was hiding with another man from the Yankees, and his position was given away during the retreat when his comrade put his hand on a snake and called out. He is shown here in old age with a cane. Note the eye; he was blind in one eye and suffered from rheumatism. His pension was approved on Aug 7, 1902. The Camp marked the grave of John Jesse Amburgey on Sandy Ridge above Dante, Virginia. John married Aly Grizzel after the war and lived in Virginia. John Jesse was the Grandson of Revolutionary War veteran John J. Amburgey who married an Ailey Grizzel. John was the son of Ambrose Amburgey and Elizabeth Johnson.

Colonel Benjamin E. Caudill, commander of "Caudill's Army", and his brothers, Lieutenant Colonel David Jesse Caudill and Private William Caudill, are Mark's double-first cousins several times removed.