Richard Hawes (1797 – 1877) was a United States Representative from Kentucky
and the second Confederate Governor of Kentucky. Originally a Whig, Hawes
became a Democrat following the of the Whig party in the 1850s. At the
outbreak of the American Civil War, Hawes was a supporter of Kentucky's
doctrine of armed neutrality. When the Commonwealth's neutrality was
breached in September 1861, Hawes fled to Virginia and enlisted as a brigade
commissary under Confederate general Humphrey Marshall. He was elected
Confederate governor of the Commonwealth following the late George W.
Johnson's death at the Battle of Shiloh. Hawes and the Confederate
government traveled with Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee, and when Bragg
invaded Kentucky in October 1862, he captured Frankfort and held an
inauguration ceremony for Hawes. The ceremony was interrupted, however, by
forces under Union general Don Carlos Buell, and the Confederates were
driven from the Commonwealth following the Battle of Perryville. Hawes
relocated to Virginia, where he continued to lobby President Jefferson Davis
to attempt another invasion of Kentucky. Following the war, he returned to
his home in Paris, Kentucky, swore an oath of allegiance to the Union, and
was allowed to return to his law practice.
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