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Henry Thompson Stanton
frontispiece Henry T. Stanton was born in Alexandria, Virginia on June 30, 1834, the son of Judge Richard Henry Stanton. His father moved the family to Maysville, Kentucky when Stanton was years old. Stanton was educated at the Maysville Seminary. He entered West Point but withdrew. Stanton served in the Confederate Army as a captain of a company in the 5th Kentucky Regiment and from 1862-1864 as assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Gen. John S. Williams. He had the same position on Col. Henry L. Giltner's staff and took command of a brigade. At the close of the war Stanton was a major serving as assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Gen. John Echols. Stanton's service was in Eastern Kentucky, East Tennessee, and Western Virginia and he was actively involved in a number of battles. After the war, Stanton practiced law and was editor of the Maysville Bulletin until 1870. He also edited a newspaper in Frankfort. From 1870-74 he was chief assistant in the office of the State Commissioner of Insurance. He died in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1899. [Sources: William S. Ward, A Literary History of Kentucky 94-95 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988); John Wilson Townsend, 1 Kentucky in American Letters 1784-1912 297-302 (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press, 1913)(2 vols.); Lewis Collins, 1 History of Kentucky 597 (Covington, Kentucky: Collins & Co., 1878)(rev. & enlarged by Richard H. Collins)] Stanton's father, Richard Henry Stanton (1812-1891), was born in Virginia but moved to Kentucky and was a noted jurist and author of Kentucky legal treatises and editor of Kentucky's revised statutes. He served in the Congress as a representative from Kentucky. [Biographical Directory of the United States Congress] Henry Throop Stanton Poems Henry T. Stanton, (Indiana) Our Vows (Indianapolis: 1890)(poem distributed by Eastern Star) _____________, "Kentucky," in The Centenary of Kentucky Proceedings at the Celebration by the Filson Club, Wednesday, June 1, 1892, of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Kentucky as an independent state into the Federal Union (Louisville, Kentucky: J P. Morton & Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1892)(including: "President Durrett's Address. The State of Kentucky," pp.9-104) [online text] [pp. 106-118]
_____________, "The Women of Bryant's Station," in Reuben T. Durrett (ed.), Bryant's Station and the memorial proceedings held on its site under the auspices of the Lexington chapter, D.A.R., August the 18th, 1896, in honor of its heroic mothers and daughters (Lousiville, Kentucky: J.P. Morton, printers, 1897) [online text] [pp. 61-68]
_____________, "Centennial Poem," in Josiah Henry Combs (ed.), All That's Kentucky: An Anthology 60-64 (Louisville: John P. Morton & Company, 1915) [online text] Poetry Henry T. Stanton, The Moneyless Man, and Other Poems (Baltimore: Henry C. Turnbull Jr., 1871) [online text] [online text] _____________, Jacob Brown, and Other Poems (Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1875) _____________, For Kate and Little May, a Story in Rhyme (1891)(pamphlet, 7 pgs.) _____________, Poems of the Confederacy: Being Selections from the Writings of Major Henry T. Stanton (Louisville: J.P. Morton, 1900) _____________, The Poetical Works of Henry T. Stanton (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke Company, 1901) Poems Henry Thomas Stanton, "The Moneyless Man," in Bennett H. Young (ed.), Kentucky Eloquence. Past and Present. Library of Orations, After-Dinner Speeches, Popular and Classic Lectures Addresses and Poetry 469-470 (Louisville, Kentucky: Ben LaBree, 1907) [online text] Writings Henry T. Stanton, Social Fetters, or, Within a Shadow (Washington, D.C.: W.H. Morrison, 1889)(novel) _____________, A Graduate of Paris (Washington, D.C.: W.H. Morrison, 1889)(novel) Research Resources Henry
Thompson Stanton Papers, 1877-1888 Henry T. Stanton Letter [Letter dated 19 November 1874 which "provides biographical information concerning his birth, education, marriage, law practice, editorship of the Maysville Express, and service in the Confederate Army; describes when he started writing poetry; and provides a short list of his published poems."] Richard
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