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CROXTON, John Thomas, soldier, born in Boar-bon County, Kentucky, 20 November 1837; died in La Paz, Bolivia, 16 April 1874. He was graduated at Yale in 1857, studied law in Georgetown, Kentucky, was admitted to the bar in 1858, and began practice in Paris, Kentucky, in August 1859. Two years later he was active in the movement for raising Union troops, and went to the front in June 1861, as lieutenant colonel of the 4th Kentucky infantry. In March 1862, he succeeded to the command of the regiment, and in August 1864, was commissioned brigadier-general. Soon afterward he was brevetted major general. He participated in the battles of Sherman's army, and at the close of the war was put in command of the military district of southwest Georgia, with headquarters at Macon. In December 1865, he resigned his commission and returned to Kentucky, where he resumed the practice of law, residing on his farm near Paris. Two or three years later he was active in establishing the "Louisville Commercial " as a republican journal, His exposure during the war and subsequent overwork had greatly impaired his health, and in 1873 he accepted the office of U. S. minister to Bolivia, in the expectation of benefit to his health from it; but it was too late.
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