Preston P Brickey

from the journal of john c. brickey: PRESTON P. BRICKEY my youngest brother was killed at the Battle of Oak Hill on Wilson Creek in Green County, Mo. August the 10th 1861. He was a brave and generous soldier, both in the Mexican War, and the War fo the Federal Governnment, and in the Southern Confederacy. He posessed a warm desire for Southern rights, and for them he lost his life. His residency in Lawrence County, Mo. Aged about 59 years, was married to his second wife, BELLE GARDNER she having one little son by him