Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . He was GovernoiBrowns adjutant-general for the state, long commanded oneof its best regiments, and socially received special consider-ation in his own section and at the chief resorts of Northernfashion and elegance. He long fought his unconquerable foe,consumption, which carried him off four years ago. Of him,Charles King, soldier on the Federal side and romancer forboth sides, wrote me: Never did I know a man who moredeserved the too-often used words, a soldier and a gentleman! Superb John C. Breckinridge, statesman, soldier, and thechoice of a great po
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . He was GovernoiBrowns adjutant-general for the state, long commanded oneof its best regiments, and socially received special consider-ation in his own section and at the chief resorts of Northernfashion and elegance. He long fought his unconquerable foe,consumption, which carried him off four years ago. Of him,Charles King, soldier on the Federal side and romancer forboth sides, wrote me: Never did I know a man who moredeserved the too-often used words, a soldier and a gentleman! Superb John C. Breckinridge, statesman, soldier, and thechoice of a great portion of his people for the first office intheir gift, was the central figure around which grouped a gal-axy of war-stars uneclipsed by the lights from any otherstate. The sons of the soil of Daniel Boone have ever beenas brave and brainy as their best brethren, in the wars andin the councils that made and held together the federatedstates. Bright proof of this was that hero of three wars, 324 BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE SIXTIES. Albert Sidney Johnson, a West Pointer of the class of 26,Indian fighter and commander-in-chief of the Texan armyand later the meteor of war in the Southern battle van. When the states parted, splittingasunder several of their units,much of the strongest brainand brawn of Kentucky rangedpromptly under the Stars andBars. General Breckinridgebrought with him a followingof ardent and youthful fighters,and by his side stood Bucknerand bold Morgan, Basil Dukeand Preston, ready to leadthem and their chosen com-rades wherever danger first to last the peerlessKentucky chief proved hismettle and theirs, ringing trueat every touch of duty, vigilantand resourceful in cabinet as he was cool and brilliant inbattle. So the history and the romance of the war havebeen enriched and rubricated by the deeds of the boys fromBluegrass, and the legend-seeming ride of John Morgan hadsofter refrain in the new Tales of the Border than the blast ofbugle and the clat
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