Writers and Kentucky residents Joshua Leet and Karen Leet, who worked as a tour guide in the area, describe the men and women of Lexington, Kentucky, who were leaders in the Civil War, such as Henry Clay, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd, John C. Breckinridge, John Hunt Morgan, Cassius Clay, Basil Duke, Joseph Shelby, Frances Dallam Peter, and William Wells Brown, their lives, and how they influenced or were influenced by the city during the Civil War, even though it produced no great battles. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)