Civil War Lexington, Kentucky Bluegrass breeding ground of power
(2011)
By:
Leet, Joshua H
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The History Press : Made available through hoopla, 2011
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781614233312 (electronic bk.) MWT11507811, 1614233314 (electronic bk.) 11507811
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Although no great Civil War battles were fought in Lexington, Kentucky, the city afforded some of the greatest military and political leaders on each side. It produced the Honorable Henry Clay, whose efforts postponed the war by at least a decade. The city touched the lives of both Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln, whose wife, Mary Todd, spent her early years there. This breeding ground of power molded the careers and characters of men like John C. Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan. Authors Josh Leet and Karen Leet introduce the men and women of Lexington who shaped United States history and whose lives were forever changed by the war that shook the nation
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