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December, 2005
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Kentucky's Last Cavalier
General William Preston, 1816–1887

By Peter J. Sehlinger
(Lexington: Kentucky Historical Society and University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xxvii, 309. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $33.95.)

The lives of many Southern generals could be easily summarized in one word: privilege. Brigadier General William Preston was no exception. His family tree reads like a "who's who" of wealthy, Kentucky pioneers, with deep roots in Virginia's first families. Preston's marriage into the Wickliffe family only furthered his many connections to land, money, honor, privilege, and slavery. And like many of his contemporaries, Preston struggled with all of the complications that privilege included. 1
      Raised as the only surviving son in a single-parent home following the death of his father in 1821, Preston was instilled (and perhaps overburdened) with family history and the responsibilities of his class by his mother and five older sisters. Education at Yale and Harvard added to his sense of place among the South's landed aristocracy, and although admitted to the bar in 1839, Preston cared little for the life of an attorney, favoring the canon of classical Greek and Latin literature he had studied at Harvard. . . .
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