Some other folks of interest buried at Louisville, Kentucky's Cave Hill Cemetery:
JOHN BRECKINRIDGE CASTLEMAN: Confederate Army officer. Was involved with the Northwest Conspiracy in 1864 to free Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Douglas in Chicago. Led guerrilla force to burn supply boats at St. Louis. Captured and sentenced to death and spared only by personal intercession of Abraham Lincoln
After Lincoln's assassination, he was deported to France. Returned to U.S. in 1866 after a pardon from President Andrew Johnson. In 1898, he led the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in the invasion of Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War and later became the island's governor.
His statue in Louisville came under attack and has been removed to be placed by his grave at Cave Hill Cemetery.
MERIWETHER LEWIS CLARK: (1846-1899) With a name like that, he'd have to be related to somebody famous. Actually, he was the grandson of famed explored William Clark. (Wonder where he got the names Meriwether Lewis?)
Also, he established the Louisville Jockey Club, now known as Churchill Downs and created the Kentucky Derby race.
--Old Secesh
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