[Footnote 95: An incident well told by his son-in-law, General Joseph C. Breckinridge, is characteristic of Dudley. When, during the Civil War, a struggle was imminent between the secessionists and the Home Guard for possession of a large shipment of arms and ammunition sent into Kentucky by the United States Government for the arming of Union soldiers and citizens, Dudley, fearing the Home Guard at Lexington would be overpowered and the munitions captured on arrival, sent as a trusty messenger to General Nelson, at Camp Dick Robinson, to ask for troops--a midnight journey of twenty miles through a hostile country--his only son, Scott Dudley, a youth scarcely seventeen. He saddled the horse and armed the boy himself, at dead of night, the better to insure secrecy, for in his own household were foes. This mission was successful. (See speech of General Joseph C. Breckinridge, United States Army, at the reunion of the Army of the Cumberland, Chattanooga, October 10, 1900.) Ensign J. Cabell Breckinridge, United States Navy, the first life lost on the threshold of the Spanish War, and Lieutenant Ethelbert D. Breckinridge, seriously wounded almost at the very instant that his General, the well-beloved Lawton, fell beside him in the Philippines, were grandsons of Doctor Dudley.] [Footnote 96: Quoted from the _Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky_, etc., of 1878.] [Footnote 97: We learn from old announcements, etc., that, as early as 1830, the Medical Faculty of Transylvania University offered their services gratuitously to the Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, through Samuel Theobalds, M. D., and that, in 1845, Doctor John R. Allen was to deliver clinical lectures to the medical class, at the Lunatic Asylum every Saturday.] [Footnote 98: Other sons were William Wallace, Benjamin Gratz, and Colonel Saunders D. Bruce.] [Footnote 99: Doctor L. B. Todd.] [Footnote 100: See _The Marshall Family_, by W. M. Paxton, 1885.] [Footnote 101: Address at Morrison College on being inaugurated President of Transylvania University.] [Footnote 102: Doctor Peter's introductory lecture to the Medical Class, November, 1842.] [Footnote 103: The first railroad was the Baltimore & Ohio, chartered March, 1827, but not completed to the Ohio until 1853--twenty-six years.] [Footnote 104: _Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky._] [Footnote 105: "In 1856, the Trustees of Morrison College came to the legislature of Kentucky and offered all the buildings, the library, the apparatus, and grounds, which were valued at over two hundred thousand dollars, if the State would take it and establish a Normal School." ... Speech of Honorable C. J. Bronston on the Agricultural and Mechanical College tax. The idea of a Normal School originated with Doctor Robert J. Breckinridge several years before.] [Footnote 106: May 22, 1863. _Collins' History of Kentucky._]