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Author: Ray Adkins
Publisher: Ray Adkins
Published: 2005-08-19
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1438251572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEight years of research of the first armed conflict in Kentucky.Where on September 19,1861 30 Barbourville Home Guards made their stand against 800 Confederate forces, Site of the fist Confederate Officer Lt.Robert Powell of the 19th Tenn, . and Pvt.John Hendrickson, a Barboursville Union Home Guard was killed
Author: Richard G. Brown
Publisher: McI Pub
Published: 2008-10-03
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780615257020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAppalachian Rebels chronicles the struggles of the 5th Kentucky Infantry and 10th Kentucky Mounted during the War Between the States. From the beginning to the end, each skirmish/battle flows in a sequential manner into the next. The authors have endeavored to offer rediscovered documents (such as a letter from PVT Brashears and the Defeated Creek Diary) that have not been released until now. The goals of the authors are to offer to the reader a sequence of action that depicts the engagements, as well as the hardships endured by the brave men of Appalachia. They were not a rabble band of bushwhackers but a well-trained army committed to the cause. They remained steadfast to the last. This is their story, retold after lying dormant since 1865.
Author: Randy Bishop
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2012-03-12
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781455616077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA description of major battle sites, past and present. Such battles as Paducah, Perryville, and Middle Creek played a significant role in the outcome of the Civil War. Through firsthand documents, maps, and photographs, this volume provides an overview of the thirteen major conflicts that took place in the Bluegrass State. Sections detail the level of preservation of each site to provide readers with a contemporary perspective.
Author: Lowell Harrison
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010-09-12
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 0813129435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK" The Civil War scene in Kentucky, site of few full-scale battles, was one of crossroad skirmishes and guerrilla terror, of quick incursions against specific targets and equally quick withdrawals. Yet Kentucky was crucial to the military strategy of the war. For either side, a Kentucky held secure against the adversary would have meant easing of supply problems and an immeasurably stronger base of operations. The state, along with many of its institutions and many of its families, was hopelessly divided against itself. The fiercest partisans of the South tended to be doubtful about the wisdom of secession, and the staunchest Union men questioned the legality of many government measures. What this division meant militarily is made clear as Lowell H. Harrison traces the movement of troops and the outbreaks of violence. What it meant to the social and economic fabric of Kentucky and to its postwar political stance is another theme of this book. And not forgotten is the life of the ordinary citizen in the midst of such dissension and uncertainty.
Author: Michael Weeks
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Published: 2009-03-24
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 0881508608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis tour guide features ten different itineraries that lead visitors through every major campaign site, as well as 450 lesser-known venues in unlikely places such as Idaho and New Mexico.
Author: John Pearce
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1994-11-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780813118741
DOWNLOAD EBOOK" Among the darkest corners of Kentucky’s past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky’s best known journalist, weaves engrossing accounts of six of the most notorior accounts to uncover what really happened and why. His story of those days of darkness brings to light new evidence, questions commonly held beliefs about the feuds, and us and long-running feuds—those in Breathitt, Clay Harlan, Perry, Pike, and Rowan counties. What caused the feuds that left Kentucky with its lingering reputation for violence? Who were the feudists, and what forces—social, political, financial—hurled them at each other? Did Big Jim Howard really kill Governor William Goebel? Did Joe Eversole die trying to protect small mountain landowners from ruthless Eastern mineral exploiters? Did the Hatfield-McCoy fight start over a hog? For years, Pearce has interviewed descendants of feuding families and examined skimpy court records and often fictional newspapeputs to rest some of the more popular legends.
Author: Ray Adkins
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2008-12-04
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1440485488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStories and photos of of the 5th Ky Vol Inf & Artillery Regimet. The largest Christian/Family Unit in the State of Kentucky
Author: Michael Weeks
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Published: 2016-03-07
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 158157553X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive guidebook for Civil War tourists, from the novice historian to the die-hard buff For those who can’t resist trying to see it all, this indispensable book contains information on and reviews of almost 450 historical sites across the United States related to the Civil War, including all 384 of the principal battlefields listed by the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission. Every entry includes an in-depth overview of the history of the battle and its importance to the war, the must-see places at each site, as well as lodging and other travel information. Outlining ten suggested itineraries for short road trips that cover every major battle of the war, The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide enables historical travelers of any level to experience the Civil War as no other book has done.
Author: Ray Adkins
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2008-07-20
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 1438263384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFour books in one, consists of three short stories & one is my best seller and another has just been released,and one researched account of the Battle of Barbourville,Kentucky consisting of 8 years of researched diarys and etc.Everything you need for information on the Battle of Barbourville,Ky in one book.
Author: Fess Whitaker
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK18 years a miner, 9 years on the railroad, 6 years a soldier, and 5 years a politician. This is the life of Corporal Fess Whitaker. Whitaker spent most of his life in the Kentucky Mountains, with stints in Virginia as a coal miner, in Texas with the Fort Worth & Denver Railroad, and abroad as a soldier. He includes a good deal of pioneer history and reminiscences of old timers, including those of Uncle Wesley Banks, the "Bugger Man" schoolmaster.
