Exile

Contrary to assertions that Burbridge never set foot in Kentucky after the war, he did make frequent appearances in the state until the early 1870s. However, threats of violence against him and his family, the death of his wife and brother, a personal bankruptcy, and the difficulties of earning a living in Kentucky all prompted Burbridge eventually to relocate. He moved to Washington, D.C., where he met and married a wealthy widow from a prominent Philadelphia family. He sojourned in Europe, spent some years in Saratoga, New York, and eventually settled in Brooklyn, where he died in 1894.