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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blackburn , Luke Pryor , 1816 -1887 (search)
Blackburn, Luke Pryor, 1816-1887
Physician; born in Fayette county, Ky., June 16, 1816; was graduated at Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in 1834, and settled in that city.
He removed to Natchez, Miss., in 1846, and when yellow fever broke out in New Orleans in 1848, as health-officer of Natchez he ordered the first quarantine against New Orleans that had ever been established in the Mississippi Valley.
He was a surgeon on the staff of the Confederate General Price during the Civil War. When yellow fever appeared in Memphis, he hastened to that city.
and organized corps of physicians and nurses, and later went to Hickman.
Ky., and gave aid to the yellow fever sufferers there.
In 1879 he was elected governor of Kentucky. Dr. Blackburn established the Blackburn Sanitarium for Nervous and Mental Diseases in 1884.
He died in Frankfort.
Ky., Sept. 14, 1887.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bledsoe , Albert Taylor , 1809 -1877 (search)
Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877
Educator; born in Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 9, 1809; graduated at West Point in 1830, and served in the army about two years. when he resigned; appointed a colonel in the Confederate army in 1861, and soon made Assistant Secretary of War.
In 1863 he went to England and did not return until 1866.
Among his writings are Is Davis a traitor? liberty and slavery, etc. He died in Alexandria, Va., Dec. 8, 1877.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boone , Daniel , 1735 -1820 (search)
Border States,
A phrase applied to Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri, during the Civil Wa.r, because they were located on the border line between the free and the slave States.
At the suggestion of Virginia, a Border State Convention was held at Frankfort, Ky., on March 27, 1861.
The Unionists in Kentucky had elected nine of their representatives and the Confederates one.
The convention was a failure.
No delegates from Virginia appeared, and only five besides those from Kentucky.
the venerable John J. Crittenden presided.
Four of the five outside of Kentucky were from Missouri.
and one from Tennessee.
The wrongs of the South and the sectionalism of the North were spoken of as the principal cause of the trouble at hand.
It condemned rebellion, but did not ask the loyal people to put it down.
Its chief panacea for existing evils was, in substance, the Crittenden Compromise; and the convention regarded the national protection and fostering of the slave sy
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crittenden , John Jordon 1787 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fairbank , Calvin 1816 -1898 (search)