Samuel Bell Maxey House by Richardphotos

Photography • Historical • posted on Feb 20, 2017

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Samuel Bell Maxey, a prominent local attorney and later two-term U.S. senator, built the large two-story house after serving as a major general in the Confederate Army. It is built in the High Victorian Italianate style. From Wikipedia https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=sam+bell+maxey+mexican+war&qpvt=Sam+Bell+Maxey+Mexican+war&qpvt=Sam+Bell+Maxey+Mexican+war&qpvt=Sam+Bell+Maxey+Mexican+war&FORM=IGRE ____________________________________________________________________________________ MAXEY, SAMUEL BELL (1825–1895). Samuel Bell Maxey, Confederate general and United States senator, son of Rice and Lucetta Pope (Bell) Maxey, was born at Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky, on March 30, 1825. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and for one year was the roommate of Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson. He graduated as a brevet second lieutenant on July 1, 1846, and fought in the Mexican War battles of Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco, and Molino del Rey. He was commended for valor, brevetted first lieutenant, and placed in command of one of the five select companies that formed a city police guard in Mexico City. The most valuable asset he gained from the experience at the United States Military Academy and in the Mexican War was his early friendships with men who became generals in the Civil War and high political figures afterward. In 1849 Maxey resigned from the army and began practicing law in Albany, Kentucky, with his father. On June 19, 1853, he married Marilda Cass Denton, an unschooled farm woman from Clinton County, Kentucky. https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fma85 I