Colonel Philip Lee's name shows up in several places on this web site.
The most detailed description is included in Edwin Porter Thompson's 1868 book titled, History of the First Kentucky Brigade.
He also figures prominently in John W. Ratliff's description of a Civil War episode.
In 1916, E. Polk Johnson wrote the follow anecdote about Colonel Philip L. Lee in an article titled "The Louisville Bar Forty-Seven Years Ago" which was published in Kentucky Law Journal, Volume IV, March 1916.
"General William L. Jackson, who sought the appointment of Circuit Judge from the Governor, requested Colonel Phil. Lee, then Prosecuting Attorney of the Circuit Court, and myself to go to Frankfort and see Governor Leslie in his behalf, with which request we complied. In the conference with Governor Leslie, that fine old gentleman surprised us both by tendering the appointment to Colonel Lee. That gentleman, after recovering from his surprise, positively declined to be considered for the position saying: "Why Governor, if I were a Circuit Judge the State would have to enlarge that grim old prison down there by the Mansion where you live. I have been a prosecuting Attorney so long that I have come to believe that every man who is indicted is guilty and if I were a judge I would fill that old prison so full that half the inmates would be sleeping in the open air for lack of cell room."
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