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The entire battlefield is listed in the National Register as the Battle of Munfordville Site. This includes the Green River Bridge designed by Albert Fink and built by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1859, Fort Craig, a union-built star shaped wood and earthen fort, a small cemetery at the northern edge of the battlefield, and other buildings existing at the time.
The museum is located in Nancy, Kentucky, just past the northern edge of the battlefield, overlooking where Union forces camped. It is adjacent to the Mill Springs National Cemetery , which contains the Federal interments (the Confederate burials are at Zollicoffer Park, a short distance away, on the battlefield proper).
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hart County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Munfordville: Largest confederate monument on private land. 30: Hart: Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument in Horse Cave: 1934 Horse Cave: Only monument on the list composed of geodes: 31: Henry: Confederate Soldiers Martyrs Monument in Eminence: 1870 Eminence: 32: Jefferson: Adolph Bloedner Monument: 1862 Louisville: Oldest monument in ...
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
Munfordville is located in central Hart County at (37.276608, -85.897822), [7] on the north side of the Green U.S. Route 31W is Munfordville's Main Street, while Interstate 65 passes just northwest of town, with access from Exit 65.
Albert Magnus Price died in September, leaving $100,000 to Wilson's Creek. He was a great-grand-nephew of Confederate Gen. Sterling Price.
Others voted for Stephen Douglas of Illinois, who ran for the Democratic Party ticket. Louisville cast 3,823 votes for John Bell. Douglas received 2,633 votes. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union, and ten other Southern states followed. Kentucky, however, chose to remain neutral and later went with the Union.