Henry English Read

Henry English Read was an American politician from Kentucky who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.
Read was born in LaRue County, Kentucky. He represented the state in the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress.
Three years after the war, he killed himself. Interment was in the Elizabethtown City Cemetery in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Obituary

General Henry English Read's obituary from the Daily Ledger
The article states:
General Henry English Read:
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