Notes for: Robert Jefferson BRECKINRIDGE

Captain, Kentucky State Guard, May 11, 1861. Captain, Company B, Second Kentucky, July 5, 1861. Delegate to Kentucky secession convention. Confederate congressman, 1862-1863. Commissioned colonel of cavalry September 13, 1864, for a term of three months, in order to recruit behind Union lines in Kentucky. Prisoner of War ( POW ) Captured Woodford County, Kentucky, February 22, 1865. To Johnston's Island prisoner-of-war camp. Released May 22, 1865. Postwar lawyer and judge in Lincoln County, Kentucky, New York City, and Danville. Died March 13, 1915, Danville. Buried Lexington Cemetery. Kentucky Confederate governor Richard Hawes called him "a gentleman of considerable political intelligence."