In 1847 and 1848, during the Mexican – American War, Breckinridge was a major of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteers, but saw no action.

During the chaos of the fall of Richmond in early April 1865, Breckinridge saw to it that the Confederate archives, both government and military, were not destroyed but rather captured intact by the Union forces.

Breckinridge continued to try to persuade Davis that further resistance would only lead to greater loss of life, but he also felt honor bound to protect the President from harm.

Still other resistance to Chandler came from a group of more liberal lawmakers like John B. Breckinridge who simply had philosophical differences with the governor.

Delegates from 11 slave states walked out of the Democratic convention, disagreeing with Douglas's position on popular sovereignty, and ultimately selected John C. Breckinridge as their candidate.

Breckinridge chose the nurse-midwifery model used in England and Scotland because she expected these nurse-midwives on horseback to serve the health care needs of the families living in the remote hills of eastern Kentucky.

In New Jersey, President Roosevelt did not file for the preference vote and lost that primary to Breckinridge, though he did receive 19 % of the vote on write-ins.

Despite the secession of the Southern states and the formation of the Confederate States of America, Breckinridge remained in the Senate until he felt threatened by the military government of his state and fled Washington to the Confederacy on October 2, 1861.

Breckinridge entered the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War as a brigadier general on November 2, 1861 and on April 14, 1862 became a major general, originally commanding the 1st Kentucky Brigade.

Breckinridge continued to fight with Bragg's army, commanding a division in the Confederate assaults on the second day, September 20, 1863, of the Battle of Chickamauga, and a corps in the unsuccessful defense of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, November 25, 1863.

In the summer, Breckinridge participated in Lt. Gen. Jubal Early's Raid on Washington, moving north through the Shenandoah Valley and crossing into Maryland.

Breckinridge feared that he would be put on trial for treason by the United States government.

A memorial to Breckinridge was placed on the Fayette County Courthouse lawn ( now known as Cheapside Park ) in Lexington in 1887.

Breckinridge is a prohibition or dry county, although on March 30, 2010, a referendum passed whereby Hardinsburg will become " moist ".

The Lincolns left Kentucky through Breckinridge County, the Ohio River at Cloverport, on a ferry operated by Jacob Weatherholt.

Cloverport is a city in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, United States, on the banks of the Ohio River.

* Article on Camp Breckinridge property dispute

In the presidential campaign of 1860 he supported John C. Breckinridge, and on December 22, soon after the election of Abraham Lincoln, sent a telegram to Georgia that asserted that " secession by the 4th of March next should be thundered forth from the ballot-box by the united voice of Georgia.

Though Abraham Lincoln was not on the ballot in the area for the 1860 Presidential election, residents of Lewisville ( listed as " Hollforts " on election results ) still gave John C. Breckinridge only a 44 – 31 majority over a fusion option.

He and Phleger have three children together: a daughter, Atherton Grace Johnson ( born on December 28, 1999 ), and two sons, Jasper Breckinridge Johnson ( born on June 6, 2002 ) and Deacon Johnson ( born on April 29, 2006 ).

" Likewise, Gore Vidal declared, " Personae sounds like Myra Breckinridge on a roll.

" I shall advance on him ", the aggressive Breckinridge declared.

By the time the principal photography on Caligula was completed, Vidal ( having a previous issue with his involvement in the infamous Myra Breckinridge ) was concerned about being associated with such an out-of-control production.

The subplot of Myra Breckinridge revolves around the character of Letitia Van Allen, an aging, sexually voracious talent scout whom Myra meets and befriends at the academy, whose office boasts a four-poster bed and whose kinky sexual practices (" Those small attentions a girl like me cherishes … a lighted cigarette stubbed out on my derrière, a complete beating with his great thick heavy leather belt …") landed her in hospital, " half paralyzed ", at the same time Myra finds herself there towards the end of the novel.

For his part, Bragg despised Breckinridge and tried to undermine his career with accusations that he was a drunkard.

After a 26-year absence from motion pictures, West appeared as Leticia Van Allen in Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge ( 1970 ) with Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, Farrah Fawcett, and Tom Selleck in a small part.

Non-Mormons also entered the easternmost part of the territory during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush, resulting in the discovery of gold at Breckinridge in Utah Territory in 1859.

That August Lieutenant Towers accompanied the U. S. Relief Expedition aboard the USS Tennessee ( ACR-10 ) as part of the naval delegation led by Commander Reginald R. Belknap, with overall command by Assistant Secretary of the Army Henry S. Breckinridge.

Breckinridge went with Davis during the flight from Virginia as the Confederacy collapsed, while also assisting General Joseph E. Johnston in his surrender negotiations with William T. Sherman at Bennett Place.

Breckinridge had ample reason to fear charges of treason ; in 1863, premature rumors of his death prompted the New York Times to print a quite vituperative obituary arguing that Kentucky's decision to stay in the Union denied Breckinridge the notion of states ' rights to justify his siding with the Confederacy.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

That would make the 14th Vice President John C. Breckinridge the youngest because he was 36 years old at the time of being sworn in.

In 1865, congressional opposition likewise caused Seddon to withdraw, and he was replaced by John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky.

Douglas was accompanied at the meeting by Atchison, Hunter, Phillips and John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky.

The conference is also notable in American history because one of the U. S. representatives was social worker and educator, Dr. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge ( 1866-1948 ).

Clay's influence in Kentucky state politics was quickly such that in 1806 the Kentucky legislature elected him to the Senate seat of John Breckinridge.

Cromwell was mentioned in Gore Vidal's satirical novel Myra Breckinridge ( 1968 ) as " the late Richard Cromwell, so satisfyingly tortured in Lives of a Bengal Lancer.

It was directed by Mary Marvin Breckinridge, and featured her cousin, Mary Breckinridge, who was a nurse-midwife and founded the Frontier Nursing Service.

John Cabell Breckinridge ( January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875 ) was an American lawyer and politician.

A member of the prominent Breckinridge family of Kentucky, John C. Breckinridge was the grandson of John Breckinridge ( 1760 – 1806 ), who served as a Senator and Attorney General.

He was also the father of congressman and diplomat Clifton Rodes Breckinridge and the great-grandfather of actor John Cabell " Bunny " Breckinridge.

Breckinridge was born at Cabell's Dale near Lexington, Kentucky, to Joseph Cabell Breckinridge and Mary Clay Smith ( daughter of Samuel Stanhope Smith ).

Breckinridge was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1849 – 1851 as a Democrat.

Breckinridge was an unsuccessful candidate for president in the 1860 election.

Furthermore, Breckinridge felt that Bragg was unfair in his treatment of Kentucky troops in Confederate service, such as the Orphan Brigade.

Breckinridge was devastated by the disaster ; he lost nearly one-third of his Kentucky troops, primarily the Orphan Brigade.