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Rh earnestly to induce Kentucky to range herself with the States which had formed the Confederacy, and left his home with General Breckinridge and others, later to devote himself to the cause. He set on foot the organization of a provisional government for Kentucky, and was chosen the first executive. When the Confederate forces retired from the State, he accompanied Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, participated in important military councils, went into the battle of Shiloh as aide to General Breckinridge, fought in the ranks after his horse was shot, and enlisted on the night of the first day as a private in Company E, of the First Kentucky regiment of infantry. Participating in the battle of the second day, he received serious and fatal wounds, and lay on the field until the next day, when he was discovered and cared for by General McCook, of the Federal army. He died on a hospital boat, April 9, 1862, and his remains were conveyed to his Kentucky home and there interred amidst a great manifestation of popular regard.

Richard Hawes, second provisional governor of Kentucky, was born in Caroline county, Virginia, February 6, 1797. His family bore an honorable part in the colonial history. His father, for several years a delegate in the Virginia legislature, emigrated to Kentucky in 1810. Judge Hawes was liberally educated, principally at Transylvania university, was admitted to the bar in 1818, and became the law partner of Robert Wickliffe. He sat in the legislature for Clark county in 1828, 1829 and 1834; and represented the Ashland district in Congress in 1837-41. In 1861 he was one of the committee of six appointed by the legislature to further the policy of armed neutrality. This plan failing he entered the army in Virginia, with rank of major, and for eight or nine months served as brigade commissary. In May, 1862, he was chosen provisional governor of Kentucky by the State council, to succeed Governor Johnson, and was in-