| Summary: | (Photograph has been artistically retouched to show him in a non-Confederate regulation uniform.) Graduated from West Point, 1832; Black Hawk War and Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in June 1861. Commissioned as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in August 1861 and promoted to major general in November 1861. Major campaigns and battles include Logan's Cross Roads. Arrested in April 1862 for drunkenness and resigned in October 1863. Spent the remaining years of the war without rank on the staff of Brigadier General J. S. Williams. Returned to Kentucky after the war and died in Danville in November 1880. He is buried in Frankfort, Kentucky. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 2. National Historical Society, 1991.
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