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English: A photo taken by user 'westendtownsville' of the Townsville West End cemetery, which was then modified in Adobe Lightroom to enhance the image. Image taken from Church Street, West End. Image taken from Church Street, West End.
The Kentucky War Memorial is a memorial to Kentuckians who have died in all wars. On a high-point called the "State Mound" in Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky, the memorial consists of a 65-foot-tall monument erected in 1850, nine low stone monuments built in a semi-circle, and two low straight monuments. The 1850 monument honors men ...
Soon, many tourists in New Orleans visited the mausoleum. Several other locations in the South wanted Davis's remains. Louisville, Kentucky offered a site in Cave Hill Cemetery , noting that two years earlier Davis had dedicated a church built on the site of his birthplace and claiming that he several times said he wanted to be buried in his ...
The Confederate Heartland Offensive (August 14 – October 10, 1862), also known as the Kentucky Campaign, was an American Civil War campaign conducted by the Confederate States Army in Tennessee and Kentucky where Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith tried to draw neutral Kentucky into the Confederacy by outflanking Union troops under Major General Don Carlos Buell.
One of four fountain monuments in Kentucky [15] 14: Christian: Latham Confederate Monument: 1887 Hopkinsville: In Riverside Cemetery [16] 15: Daviess: Confederate Monument in Owensboro: 1900 Owensboro: Sculpted by the noted George Julian Zolnay [17] 16: Daviess: Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument: 1864 St. Joseph: In cemetery [18] 17: Fayette
A former Princeton football star. An aspiring nurse. A college freshman. A cherished son. A devoted mom. These are among the victims of the deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that lef t ...
The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, fought August 29–30, 1862, was one of the most complete Confederate victories in the war [3] by Major General Edmund Kirby Smith against Union major general William "Bull" Nelson's forces, which were defending the town. It was the first major battle in the Kentucky Campaign.
The monument was never erected, however, and in 1867 the new cemetery was closed, and the U.S. fallen soldiers transferred to Camp Nelson National Cemetery in Jessamine County, Kentucky, leaving no identified U.S. casualties on the field at Perryville. H.P. Bottom House Confederate Cemetery Perryville KY in 1886