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William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Fayette County, Kentucky, lawyer, slaveholder, and colonel of 9th KY Cav (CSA))

b. 1837-08-28 d. 1904-11

Fayette County, Kentucky, lawyer. Baltimore County, Maryland, native. Son of Robert Jefferson Breckinridge and Anne Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge. Married to Lucretia "Lucy" Hart Clay Breckinridge. Father of Lee Clay Breckinridge. Married to Issa Desha Breckinridge in Fayette County, Kentucky, on September 19, 1861. Father of Eleanor "Ella" Desha Breckinridge Chalkley. Student in Fayette County in 1850. Household owned thirty-seven enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Graduate of Central College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1855. Graduate of University of Louisville Law School in Louisville in 1857. Attorney in Fayette County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860. Served in 9th Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.) as a colonel from July 15, 1862 to May 15, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 167B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 559.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Ward 3, City of Lexington, p. 456B.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0047.

"Lucretia Clay Breckinridge (1839-1860)," Find A Grave, Memorial #8884813, accessed May 15, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8884813 .

"William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904)," Find A Grave, Memorial #7397789, accessed April 26, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7397789.

Jay Guy Cisco, Historic Sumner County, Tennessee: With Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Gage, and Douglass Families, and Genealogical Notes of Other Sumner County Families (Nashville: Folk-Keelin Printing Company, 1909), 178.

Citation

Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200742 (November 12, 2026).

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