It's a non-fiction book surveying the many notable people from or connected to Lexington (my home town).

Jeff Davis went to Transy (my alma mater), as did Cassius Clay, John Hunt Morgan and others. The youngest ever Vice President, John C. Breckinridge, was a Lexington native more remembered for leaving his senate seat and becoming a southern general and the last Confederate Secretary of War. The Crittendens, Blairs, Todds (as in Mary Todd Lincoln), Clays, Morgans, etc -- tons of notable people. There are 8 generals from the war buried in Lexington Cemetery. Lexington was also the birthplace of the first African American novelist, William Wells Brown, a slave who really only spent his infancy near Lexington.

We also educated a future Kentucky governor who tried to use biological warfare against the North during the war, and another Lexington native may have been behind the Booth assassination of Lincoln. And even if he had no hand in it, he wanted to.

Interesting for Civil War fans or Kentucky history fans.

It's available on all the usual online booksellers or from the publisher, The History Press.