| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Commissioned as a colonel in Confederate service in September 1861; promoted to brigadier general in April 1862. Major campaigns and battles include Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, the Kentucky campaign, Stones River, and Chickamauga. Spent the remainder of the war in the Trans-Mississippi. After the war, Preston returned to law and politics. He died in Lexington, Kentucky, in September 1887 and is buried in Louisville, Kentucky. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 5. National Historical Society, 1991.
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