The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY), November 21st, 2005
Byline: Berry Craig
NEW MARKET, Va. -- "Stonewall" Jackson's "worthy successor" was a Kentucky general better known as a politician.
"You could say that John C. Breckinridge is one of those guys who gets sort of slighted in military history," said John Trowbridge, director of the Kentucky Military Museum in Frankfort, the Bluegrass State capital.
Breckinridge's victory at the Civil War battle of New Market invited comparison with the storied "Stonewall" Jackson, one of the Confederacy's great heroes. "Even so, the battle is most famous for the charge of the VMI (Virginia Military Institut...
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