When Captain McClaskey brought his bride to Kentucky he bought a tract of land containing 135 acres from a certain Jim Brown, near Bloomfield, Kentucky, and in the neighborhood of his boyhood farm home.  He and his bride moved to a log house located on this farm and in this house had six of their eight children.  In the early 1880s they decided to build a new house.  Mrs. McClaskey drew all the plans for the house. 

     All the lumber used in building the house was cut from the woodland on the farm.  The local contractors James and Charles Batcheldor of Bloomfield built the house.  All the inside and outside finishing work was cut by hand tools.  There are eight rooms, two large halls, four porches and three stairways.  The trimmings on the front and back porches are very elaborate and each design was with hand tools.

     After the death of Captain McClaskey, his son Hewitt McClaskey purchased the farm.  Hewitt married Sue Jenkins.  Hewitt died in April, 1930 and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, near Bloomfield Kentucky. Captain Charles and most of his family are buried in Big Spring Cemetery, near Bloomfield, Kentucky.

     Part of an article that appeared in the November 17, 1904, issue of the Kentucky Standard in regard to Captain Charles Bodine McClaskey deals with the character of a brave Confederate soldier.  

     Early in September, 1861, Captain McClaskey recruited a full company of the young men of his community, a majority of its members being sons of the old pioneer settles of the garden spot of Nelson County.  McClaskey's  men admired him as a leader, and as a gentleman, and he was justly proud of his men.

     Kentucky at that time had declared her neutrality in the Great War, but everybody understood that she could not maintain that position long, and that sooner or later armed hosts would march upon her sacred soil. Even then they were gathering on the northern and southern  borders as well awaiting the signal to cross the dead line.  Captain McClaskey received word of the invasion of the state by both Northern and Southern troops.  The members of his company were notified to meet in Bloomfield and in the evening of the same day left on foot to join the Southern army.  Some two miles out from Bloomfield they met a messenger from Bardstown informing them that they would be intercepted by home guards below there.

After a short consultation the company went into camp temporarily in the vicinity of Bloomfield, forming what was called Camp Charity, in consideration of the bounty of the good people of the neighborhood who supplied them everything for a soldier's comfort.  Having been reinforced    

     They then reported to General Buckner, then commanding the Confederate forces at Bowling Green, Kentucky.  The Company was then assigned to duty in the Sixth Kentucky Infantry and became Company A of that famous regiment with the late General Joseph H. Lewis as Colonel.  The old Sixth Kentucky and gallant Company A require no praise.  Their deeds of heroic daring are recorded upon every battlefield fought by the Army of Tennessee from Shiloh to the disastrous close of the great conflict.

     Captain McClaskey was a true type of a Kentucky Gentlemen.  He had been given no military education before entering the service of the South, and he was more designed by nature to fill the place of an honorable gentlemen in civil life than to become a military leader.  He, however, threw his whole soul into the duties of the hour and soon became a creditable officer of the time.  He had the misfortune, through no fault of his, to incur the displeasure of his superior officers at almost the beginning of the war and through that means lost  promotion to Major of the regiment, which he should have had being Senior Captain and in the line of promotion.  He continued in command of the old company to the close of the war, thus setting an example, honorable alike to his courage and patriotism.  He stayed with the recruited men and shared the dangers and hardships with them to the end of the bitter struggle.

Dissension sprung up in his own company.  An attempt was made to supplant him as Captain.  Many in the company became his enemy.  It was reported he did not do his duty on the bloody field at Shiloh.  The enemies in his company did not succeed in their design, and he remained in command of the company throughout the war doing his duty.  These reports were slanderous as was evidenced by his conduct on many bloody fields afterward, but he did not succeed in getting the promotion he was justly entitled to.

     Captain McClaskey at all times watched over and took care of the men under him and not one of them could say that he ever mistreated them in any way. In the fall of 1864 at Jonesboro, Georgia, he was badly wounded and disabled for further service during the war.

     After the close of the war, having recovered from his wounds, he returned to Kentucky and set about rebuilding his scattered fortunes.  Returning to the South the following year, he engaged in cotton planting, but the floods ruined his fortune in that direction.  Then he returned to Kentucky and soon was on his feet again.

     Having married soon after the close of the war, he settled down to the quiet existence of a farmer's life and was very successful in his calling.  He lived and died  loved and respected by his neighbors and friends.  We who knew him in war as well as in peace can say that he acted well his part at all times, brave and honorable to the last.