9th Kentucky Cavalry

1840 - 1904

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Josiah Arrasmith enlisted in 1863 and served through the end of the war being present at Johnson's surrender in North Carolina. He was a member of the Kentucky chapter of the United Confederate Veterans and was commander of the Patrick R. Cleburne Camp No. 252 of that organization.

Co.G 9th Kentucky Cavalry CSA /detached from 9th CAV.rode with GEN. J.H.MORGAN the Longest Raid .and was taken prisoner on June 19 1863 in Indy. on the Ohio River William Franklin Askren

PRIVATE WILLIAM FRANKLIN ASKREN WITH CO.G 9TH KY CAV CSA ENLISTED SEPT 1862 RODE WITH MORGANS RAIDERS CAPTURED JULY 19 1863 OHIO RIVER IN STATE INDY DEATH FEB 12 1864

PVT. WILLIAM FRANKLIN ASKREN ENLISTED SEPT. 1862 WITH CO.G. 9TH KENTUCKY CAVALRY CONFEDERATE ARMY.COMMANDER BRECKENRIDGE WERE ATTACHED TO JOHN H. MORGAN BRIGADE,AS A MORGANS RAIDERS CAPTURED JULY 19 1863 AT THE OHIO RIVER TRYING TO GET BACK TO KENTUCKEY HIS DEATH WAS FEB 12 1864

Peter S. Myers was in the 9th kentuck calv commanded by W. P. C. Breckenridge. They were attached to Morgans Brigade at least 3 times. Peter was captured during the Great Raid and sent to Camp Douglas. Later exchanged and joined his unit near Lynchburg Va. where they surrendered with Lee.

BRECKINRIDGE, William Campbell Preston, (grandson of John Breckinridge, uncle of Levin Irving Handy, and great-uncle of John Bayne Breckinridge), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Baltimore, Md., August 28, 1837; attended the common schools, Jefferson College, Chambersburg, Pa., and Pisgah Academy, Woodford County, Ky.; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1855 and from the law department of the University of Louisville in 1857; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Lexington, Ky.; entered the Confederate Army in 1861 as captain and was subsequently promoted to the rank of colonel in the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry; was in command of the Kentucky cavalry designated to act as bodyguard for President Jefferson Davis and the members of his cabinet at the close of the Civil War; returned to Lexington, Ky., and was attorney for Fayette County; edited the Lexington (Ky.) Observer and Reporter 1866-1868; professor of equity and jurisprudence in the University of Kentucky at Lexington; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1876 and 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law and also edited the Lexington Herald; died in Lexington, Ky., November 18, 1904; interment in Lexington Cemetery.