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Preston, William -1887

Military officer; born near Louisville, Ky., Oct. 16, 1806; served, in the war against Mexico, as lieutenant-colonel of Kentucky volunteers, and afterwards was in his State legislature. In 1851 he was elected to Congress, and in March, 1859, President Buchanan appointed him minister to Spain. When the Civil War broke out he resigned his office, and [293] hastened home. At the Secession Convention at Russellville, he was appointed a commissioner to visit Richmond, and negotiate for the admission of Kentucky into the Confederacy, and accepted the commission of brigadier-general in the Confederate army. He was aide to his brother-inlaw, Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, at the battle of Shiloh, and served under Bragg in his invasion of Kentucky. After the war he was again elected to the legislature. He died in Lexington, Ky., Sept. 21, 1887.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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