Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association, 1902. page 68 BAKER, ALPHEUS, soldier, lawyer, was born May 23, 1825, in South Carolina. He joined the confederate army in 1861, and was rapidly promoted for gallant and meritorious services, to the rank of brigadier-general. At the close of the war he engaged in the practice of law in Louisville, Ky. He died Oct. 2, 1891, in Louisville, Ky.