The Fifteenth Kentucky Elects Officers, Louisville Journal, December 5, 1861

COLONEL POPE'S REGIMENT -- At an election of officers for Colonel Curran Pope's regiment, at New Haven, on Monday, Curran Pope was elected Colonel; Geo. P. Jouett, Lieutenant-Colonel, and W. P. Campbell, Major.  They were of course elected by acclamation.  Colonel Pope at once appointed Wm. McDonald, Adjutant; John W. Clark, Quartermaster; and the Rev. D. Talbott, Chaplain.  The regiment, which numbers nine hundred and thirty men, was formally mustered in by Judge Bullitt, on Monday.

Louisville Journal, December 5, 1861

Note:  The Journal managed to identify all three of the staff officers incorrectly.  The adjutant's name was William P. McDowell, not McDonald.  The Quartermaster's name was John Clarke.  The Chaplain's name was Jeremiah Talbott.