Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Junior

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Robert Jefferson Breckinridge junior (born September 14, 1833 in Baltimore , Maryland , † March 13, 1915 in Lexington , Kentucky ) was an American lawyer and Confederate politician and officer.

Career

Robert Jefferson Breckinridge junior was born in 1833 as the son of the Protestant apologist and editor Robert Jefferson Breckinridge senior (1800–1871) and Anna Sophianisba Preston (1803–1844) in Baltimore. His youth was overshadowed by the economic crisis. In Kentucky he then attended Center College in Danville ( Boyle County ). He then went to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville ( Albemarle County ). Breckinridge studied law in Danville and Lexington. He also had a political career. Breckinridge took 1861 as a delegate at the American Civil Assembly of Kentucky in Bowling Green ( Warren County ), where he voted for secession. After the outbreak of the Civil War , he enlisted on May 11, 1861 in the Kentucky State Guard and on July 5, 1861 in Company B of Second Kentucky. He held the rank of captain all this time . In November 1861 he was elected to the eleventh constituency of Kentucky in the first Confederate Congress, where he served from February 18, 1862 to February 17, 1864. On September 13, 1864, he received an officer's license to colonel in the cavalry to recruit behind the Union lines in Kentucky within three months . Finally, on February 22, 1865, he was captured in Woodford County and taken prisoner of war. He was in the prison camp at Johnson's Iceland in the Sandusky Bay , on the coast of Lake Erie three  Miles of Sandusky ( Erie County , brought). He was released on May 22, 1865. After the war was over, he served as an attorney and judge in Lincoln County, Kentucky, New York City, and Danville, Kentucky. In this context he held the office of judge at the Court of Common Pleas in Kentucky in 1876 . He died in Lexington in 1915, a few months after the outbreak of the First World War in Europe , and was buried there in the city cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Confederate States almanac and repository of useful knowledge: for the year 1863 , Gale Cengage Learning, ISBN 9781432804930 , p. 33
  2. ^ Depot of Prisoners of War on Johnson's Island, Ohio

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SURNAME Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breckinridge, Robert J. Junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and Confederate politician and officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1915
Place of death Lexington , Kentucky