Benjamin Hardin Helm
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Benjamin Hardin Helm was an American politician, attorney, and Confederate brigadier general. A son of Kentucky governor John L. Helm, he was born in Bardstown, Kentucky. He attended the Kentucky Mili
Brigadier General Benjamin Hardin Helm
Helm during his Kentucky State Guard service, 1860.
Bust of Helm by Anton Schaaf at Vicksburg National Military Park, 1914
Robert Smith Todd
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Robert Smith Todd was an American lawyer, soldier, banker, businessman and politician. He was the father of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
Benjamin Hardin Helm
…County, and was the state's attorney for the 3rd district of Kentucky from 1856 to 1858. On March 26, 1856, Helm married Emilie Pariet Todd, daughter of Robert Todd of Lexington and a half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. In 1860, he was appointed assistant inspector-general of the Kentucky State Guard, which he was…
Undated daguerreotype of Todd