Adolphus Edward Richards

Doctor of Civil Law 1897

Richards received an honorary Doctorate of Law in 1897. His father was an enslaver who owned seven people in 1850. Richards was a major in the Confederate Army and after the war he became a lawyer and later a judge in Louisville, Kentucky.

"In 1863 there came to Colonel Mosby's command a young Virginian, A.E. Richards...Christened Adolphus Edward Richards, he became known among Mosby's followers as 'Dolly.'"

Bennett Henderson Young, Confederate Wizards of the Saddle 1850 Slave Schedules, Loudoun County VA, 301. Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, ed. H. Levin. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1897: 138.

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