What Does Lexington Cemetery and the Battle of Kingsport Have in Common?-- Part 1

From the December 4, 2019, Kingsport (Tn) Times News "The Battle of Kingsport was a family affair" by Ned Jilton.

"There is a cemetery in Kentucky that has a lot of history surrounding the Battle of Kingsport (Tn)."
That cemetery is Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky.

So, how does that relate to a Civil War battle in Tennessee?

The Confederate soldiers on the north bank of the Holston River were mostly cavalry from Kentucky.  All of the top Confederate officers at that battle are buried near each other in Lexington.  Most of them next to each other.

One of them is Major General John C. Breckinridge, a former U.S. vice president who lost to Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election.  By 1864, he was in command of the East Tennessee-Southwest Virginia District and his main task was defend all the raw materials coming out of that region such as salt from Saltville,  potassium nitrate (used in the manufacture of gun powder) from Wytheville and lead from Marion.

--Old Secesh