WARD, Matt Flournoy, author, born in Scott county, Kentucky, 19 May, 1826; died in Helena, Arkansas, 30 September, 1862. He was educated at Louisville, Kentucky, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, travelled extensively, and engaged in cotton-planting in Arkansas on his return, but resided much of the time in Louisville, Kentucky In 1854 he shot a schoolmaster, named W. H. G. Butler, for chastising his brother, was tried on an indictment of murder, and acquitted. He was killed before his house by a Confederate soldier, who mistook him for one of the enemy, as he wore a blue blouse like a National officer. His publications are "Letters from Three Continents" (New York, 1850) ; and " English Items, or Microscopic Views of England and Englishmen" (1852). A report of his trial was printed (Louisville, 1854), and at the time of his death he was writing a book in which he intended to use some of the incidents of the Butler tragedy.