Free Download Brad Asher, "The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: The Lost Cause and the Legacy of Union General Stephen Burbridge"
English | ISBN: 0813181372 | 2021 | 286 pages | PDF | 19 MB
For the last third of the nineteenth century, Union General Stephen Gano Burbridge enjoyed the unenviable distinction of being the most hated man in Kentucky. From mid-1864, just months into his reign as the military commander of the state, until his death in December 1894, the mere mention of his name triggered a firestorm of curses from editorialists and politicians. By the end of Burbridge's tenure, Governor Thomas E. Bramlette concluded that he was an "imbecile commander" whose actions represented nothing but the "blundering of a weak intellect and an overwhelming vanity."