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Kentucky's Last Cavalier(1st Edition)
General William Preston, 1816-1887 (Kentucky Historical Society)
by Peter J. Sehlinger
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2004 by University Press Of Kentucky
ISBN-13: 978-0-916968-33-5, ISBN: 0-916968-33-2
"William Preston was a leading representative of Kentucky's slaveholding, landed gentry, the group who dominated economic, political, and social life in the commonwealth before the Civil War. Preston was heir to valuable lands adjacent to Louisville and married to the daughter of the state's largest slave owner, and his Ivy League education and leadership abilities made him a natural spokesman for the interests of the South's antebellum ..."
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