Historical records matching Civil War Governor & General, Lucius Junius Brutus Desha, (CSA)
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About Civil War Governor & General, Lucius Junius Brutus Desha, (CSA)
Governor & General Lucius Junius Brutus Desha (CSA)
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Prominent farmer and politician of Harrison County, son of Kentucky Governor Joseph Holmes Desha, was born on April 25, 1812, in Mason County, Kentucky. His parents had 13 children, of which he was the twelfth. His mother was Margaret 'Peggy' Desha (Bledsoe), a native of Loudon County, Virginia; was daughter of Lt. Isaac Bledsoe, who was an early and distinguished pioneer of Tennessee, and was killed by the Native Americans. She was married to his father in Sumner County, Tennessee, in 1789.
The Deshas were of French extraction, and were refugees among the Huguenots to this country, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, first probably stopping in Wales, and finally settling in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. The subject of this sketch was brought up on the farm, and early inured to hard labor; but his education was quite liberal, being obtained in the best schools of his times in the country.
After finishing his education, in 1830, he chose farming pursuits, to which he has ever since mainly devoted his time and energy; the farm on which he now resides being one of the most finely improved and productive in Harrison County. In 1844, he was elected to represent Harrison County in the Legislature, and was re-elected for three consecutive terms. He was a member of the Convention of 1849, which formed the last, or present, Constitution of the State. In 1851, at the first election under the "new Constitution," he was again elected to the Lower House in the State Legislature and served one term, and, in 1861, was re-elected to the same branch of that body.
During the war of the rebellion, his sympathies and principles were with the South; and, notwithstanding he took no part in the great conflict, yet for several months he was one of the numerous civilian prisoners from the border at Camp Chase, in Ohio. He has always been a Democrat, and cast his first Presidential vote for Gen. Jackson, and his last, before the war, for John C. Breckinridge. He has been a delegate to four Democratic National Conventions; in 1844, at Baltimore, where James K. Polk was nominated; in 1856, at Cincinnati, where James Buchanan was the nominee; at New York, in 1868, nominating Horatio Seymour; and, finally, at St. Louis, in 1876, where Samuel J. Tilden was nominated for the Presidency of the United States.
In 1876, he was one of the three prominent candidates for Congress before the Democratic Convention for the Sixty Congressional District, held at Covington. For a number of years, he was a brigadier-general, and afterwards a major-general, in the old State militia service; and for over half a century has been one of the most prominent farmers and politicians in his section of the State, and one of the most substantial and valuable citizens of his community.
Gen. Desha has been twice married; in 1832, to Julia Ann Moore, of Harrison County, who died in 1839; and, in 1840, to Eliza Jane Moore, sister of his first wife, and daughter of Moses Moore, a farmer of that county, from Virginia.
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Civil War Governor of Kentucky - http://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00010030
Harrison County, Kentucky, politician. Mason County, Kentucky, native. Son of Joseph Desha and Peggy Bledsoe Desha. Married to Julia Ann Moore in Harrison County on August 9, 1832. Father of Joseph Desha, Ben Desha, and Julia Desha. Married Eliza Moore in Harrison County on June 9, 1840. Father of Ada Desha, Ann Desha, Lucius Desha, Cave Desha, Bettie Desha, Jack Desha, Claude Desha, and Fanny Desha. Served in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1844 to 1863. Delegate to the Democratic Party National Conventions in 1844 at Baltimore, Maryland. Member of the state Constitutional Convention in 1849. Farmer in Harrison County in 1850. Owned twenty-seven enslaved persons in Harrison County in 1850. Served as a brigadier general in the Kentucky State Militia. Delegate to the Democratic Party National Convention in 1856 at Cincinnati, Ohio. Farmer in Harrison County in 1860. Owned thirty-three enslaved persons in Harrison County in 1860. Arrested on July 26, 1862 for treason. Prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio, from July 1862 to November 1862.
- Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, Louisville, District 1, p. 104B.
- Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, Louisville, District 1, p. 357.
- Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, p. 719-720.
- Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, p. 129A.
- Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, Cynthiana, p. 38.
- Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, Film #000216884, p. 543.
- Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, Film #000216896, p. 111.
- Find A Grave, "Lucius Desha (April 25, 1812-July 10, 1885)," Memorial #8041135, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8041135 (accessed December 30, 2018).
- The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 37-38.
- Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 323.
- William A. Penn, Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana & Harrison County Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. p, 85, 95.
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Civil War Governor & General, Lucius Junius Brutus Desha, (CSA)'s Timeline
| 1812 |
April 25, 1812
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Mason County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1833 |
May 22, 1833
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Harrison County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1838 |
December 4, 1838
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Harrison County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1843 |
February 14, 1843
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Harrison County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1847 |
March 12, 1847
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Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1849 |
April 11, 1849
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Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1854 |
March 10, 1854
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Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1859 |
1859
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Harrison County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1885 |
July 10, 1885
Age 73
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Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky, United States
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