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Pioneer Village: Commonly called the "Civil War Village", it features buildings built in Nelson County, Kentucky, from 1776 to 1820. Women's Civil War Museum: Opened in 1999, it is the only museum that looks into the role of women during the American Civil War. It is in the historic (c1840) Wright Talbott House. Hal Moore Military Museum ...
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.
The festival was designated Kentucky's official bourbon festival by the Kentucky General Assembly in 2000. [20] The Civil War Museum in Bardstown is the fourth-largest Civil War museum in the United States. [21] Other notable sites include: Bardstown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Bardstown Historical Museum.
Henry Heth (/ ˈ h iː θ / not / ˈ h ɛ θ /) (December 16, 1825 – September 27, 1899) was a career United States Army officer who became a Confederate general in the American Civil War.
Fort Duffield, a Civil War fort; Fort Knox, including the U.S. Bullion Depository and General George Patton Museum of Leadership (Bullitt, Hardin and Meade Counties) Fort Nelson Park, located in the same spot as the second on-shore fort in Kentucky; Historic Locust Grove farm, home of George Rogers Clark and site of the homecoming of Lewis and ...
Civil War: Civil War history of the area and local natural and cultural history Conrad-Caldwell House: Louisville: Jefferson: Derby Region: Historic house: Late 19th-century period mansion Constitution Square Historic Site: Danville: Boyle: Bluegrass: Open-air: Includes replica of 1785 log courthouse, jail and meetinghouse, 1792 post office ...
September 10–11, 1862 members of the 103rd OVI skirmish with Henry Heth, before the rebels retreated to Lexington, Kentucky. From Fort Mitchell the 103rd OVI marched approximately ninety miles to Lexington, Kentucky, where the infantry men boarded a train to Frankfort, Kentucky, arriving around 1:00 pm on October 30, 1862
The Defense of Cincinnati occurred during what is now referred to as the Confederate Heartland Offensive or Kentucky Campaign of the American Civil War, from September 1 through September 13, 1862. Confederate Brigadier General Henry Heth was sent north from Lexington, Kentucky , to threaten Cincinnati , Ohio , then the sixth-largest city in ...