Capt. William Lewis Hickman
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By Anderson Chenault Quisenberry,
Lexington Herald, April 21, 1907
William Lewis Hickman, Adjutant of the 11th Kentucky Cavalry, was born in Winchester, Kentucky in 1824, the son of William L. Hickman and Sarah Pearson, his wife, both of whom were born in Virginia. He was the grandson of Richard Hickman, who was Governor of Kentucky during the War of 1812. Through his mother he was an American "Rebel", the leader of what is called "Bacon's Rebellion", in Virginia in 1676. "Billy" Hickman, as his friends fondly called him, was educated in the Winchester schools, and went into the merchantile business there at an early age. In 1847, he was partner with Henry Bell in a mercantile house in Lexington. A few years ago later he went to St. Louis. He was the founder of the lodge of Odd Fellows in Winchester, which is called Hickman Lodge, in his honor. When the war began he was in St. Louis, and enlisted in a body of Confederate troops that was raised there, but he was captured by General Seigle, and imprisoned. He escaped from prison and made his way to his home in Winchester, where he was again arrested, and placed in prison in Lexington, but escaped from that prison also. When the 11th Kentucky Cavalry was recruited he joined it, and was made adjutant, with the rank of Captain, and served gallantly until his capture on the Ohio raid; after which he was imprisoned in the Ohio penitentary, Johnson's Island, Allegeny penitentiary, Pa., and Point Lookout, Md., remaining a prisoner until the close of the war, when he was released, and returned to Winchester, reaching there on May 1, 1865. About 1875 he left Winchester for the West, and has never been heard of since. No man ever had more friends, or more devoted ones, than he.
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