these are of the family of john cabell breckenridge.the states rights democrat who ran against abraham lincoln. stephen a douglas during the election of 18 60. john breckenridge cast and immense shadow over the early and mid 19th century, became a congressman from henry clay's ashland district and the age of 35, he became vice president of the united states. he was the youngest vice president ever. on the eve of the civil war after the buchanan administration went out and the lincoln administration was coming in, the state legislature elected john breckenridge as the senator from kentucky. john breckenridge resigns within the senate votes to expel him for the reason they believe that it was traitorous for him to have been vice president of the united states and now a united states senator and resign to go with a state he believes will secede from the union. from that point, he rises to major general in the confederate army and becomes the confederate secretary of war. he is literally overseeing the confederate government during its last

people who cut a bigger shadow in the war effort then john c breckenridge. we are standing in front of stone marking the grave of general gordon granger. general granger did not come from lexington. he came from new york, graduate of west point, class of 1845. a prominent combatant in the mexican war and the war in the west for the civil war and after, he wins his fame at the battle of chickamauga at the 20th of september, 1863. but that's not what we know him more. at the wars and on june 19, 1865, he was in command of