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Basil Wilson Duke (May 28, 1838 – September 16, 1916) was a lawyer in Kentucky and a Confederate general officer during the American Civil War. Afterward, he achieved renown as a historian. His most notable role in the war was second-in-command to his brother-in-law John Hunt Morgan. Duke later wrote a popular account of what was called ...
- 1861–1865
- Confederate States Army
Jan 20, 2018 · The radiance of divine beauty is altogether beyond the power of words to describe. This excerpt from St. Basil the Great’s Detailed Rule for Monks (resp. 2,1: PG 31, 908-910) on the spark of love of God and the radiance of divine beauty. It is used in the Roman Office of Readings for Tuesday of the 1st week in Ordinary Time.
Nov 29, 2020 · Gen. Basil W. Duke, C.S.A. A close associate of brother-in-law John Hunt Morgan, Duke provided tactics, discipline, and spirit, major elements of success of famous 2nd Ky. Cavalry. Wounded in battle twice, 1862; captured July 1863 in Ind.-Ohio raid; exchanged August 1864. After Morgan's death, Basil Duke appointed to command brigade.
Historical Marker #1861 in Scott County remembers General Basil W. Duke, best known for his service to the Confederacy during the Civil War, but also his significant political and literary contributions to Kentucky following the conflict.
Brigadier-General Basil Duke, colonel of the Second Kentucky cavalry in John H. Morgan's lifetime, and successor to that officer upon his death, appears first upon the scene of action in the great civil war as a captain in Missouri and commissioned by the governor of that State to go to Montgomery, Ala., and obtain arms from the Confederate ...
Shortly thereafter, she was sent to more distant exile at the same Suzdal Intercession Convent that she had known a decade earlier as a supplicant. She died there in December 1542. Basil's...
He also wrote the books, “A History of Morgan's Cavalry” (1867) and “Reminiscences of General Basil W Duke” (1911). He died at age 78 in New York City. Civil War Confederate Brigadier General.
