in 1858. Later married Henrietta Morgan, sister of John Hunt Morgan, in 1861. Basil became a lieutenant in Morgan's Second Kentucky Cavalry. After Morgan's death, he was promoted to brigade commander. He later practiced law in Louisville, Kentucky and served as counsel for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. He was elected to the state legislature in 1869 John Breckinridge Castleman, Confederate officer who later rose to rank of Brigadier General in US Army, studied law there immediately before the outbreak of the Civil War Edward A. Eckenhoff, President and CEO National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC John E. Fryer, American psychiatrist and gay rights activist best known for his anonymous speech at the 1972 American Psychiatric Association (APA) annual conference where he appeared in disguise and under the name "Dr. Henry Anonymous". This event has been cited as a key factor in the decision to de-list homosexuality as a mental illness from the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Richard Montgomery Gano, Confederate General Teresa Isaac, mayor of Lexington, Kentucky 2002–2006 George Wallace Jones, U.S. senator, U.S. representative, and ambassador Matt Jones, radio host, attorney, and founder of Kentucky Sports Radio Matthew Harris Jouett, painter known for portraits of figures including Thomas Jefferson Trey Kramer, Professional soccer and football player Daniel Mongiardo, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky Arthur D. Nicholson, United States Army officer shot and killed by a Soviet sentry in 1985, while conducting intelligence activities in East Germany Steve Nunn, former member of the Kentucky House of Representatives William Lindsay Pogue, attorney, Amanda iron furnace owner, developer of 80,000 acres of Pogue/Poage lands in Northeastern Kentucky Charles Lynn Pyatt, dean, Lexington Theological Seminary Clyde Roper, zoologist Lee Rose, basketball coach Kyle Smith, Professional soccer player Karen K. Caldwell, Chief United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr. Major League Baseball commissioner, Governor of Kentucky, and Senator from Kentucky Cy Barger, major league baseball player Eugene C. Barker, historian; wrote The Life of Stephen F. Austin (1925); received LL.D. from Transylvania in 1940 Ned Beatty, actor James Lane Allen, author George B. Kinkead, Kentucky Secretary of State (1846-1847) Gil Rogers, actor Claria Horn Boom, District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky Notable faculty Henry Bidleman Bascom (1796–1850) –