Very ornate Louisville Southern Railroad Company stock certificate, signed in ink, “Bennett H. Young”, as President of the company.  Document certifies that one “Basil Doerhoefer” is owner of twenty shares of stock.  Measures 10 3/4” x 7”.  Excellent condition; two small round holes punched out of left edge, one at the top and one at bottom.

Accompanied by modern copies of period images of Bennett, and a small amount of research information.

Born in Nicholasville, KY in 1843, Young joined the Confederate army as a private at the age of 18, enlisting as a private in the 8^th Kentucky Cavalry in Jessamine County on 9/10/62.  The 8^th served as part of Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s command. Young was captured in Morgan’s 1863 Indiana and Ohio raid and was sent to Camp Douglas Prison. A failed escape attempt earned him 30 days confinement in an underground dungeon, but still determined, he succeeded on his 2^nd escape attempt and fled to Canada. Here he was placed in command of several other Rebel prisoners whom he successfully led back to the Confederacy by running the Union blockade.

In June 1864, Young returned to Canada to take part in several secret missions for the Confederacy. In October of that year, he commanded the famous St. Albans, Vermont Raid in which his small band of Confederates robbed three banks of over $200,000.00.

When the war ended, Young was excluded from President Andrew Johnson’s amnesty proclamation and could not return him until 1868. In the meantime, he went abroad to study law and literature at the University of Ireland and the University of Edinburgh. When he was finally allowed to return to the United States, he settled in Louisville, KY, becoming a very prominent attorney and President of the Louisville Southern Railroad Company.

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