Ghosts across Kentucky

Ghosts across Kentucky

Author: William Montell

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2010-09-12

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 081312784X

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"Lynwood Montell has collected ghost tales all over the state of Kentucky, from coal mining settlements to river landings, from highways to battlefields. He presents these suspense-filled stories just as he first heard or read them: as bona fide personal experiences or as events witnessed by family members or friends. There are over 250 stories in Ghosts across Kentucky that are set in specific places and times. They include tales of graveyards, haunted dormitories, animal ghosts, and vanishing hitchhikers. Montell describes weird lights, unexplained sounds, felt presences, and disappearing apparitions. Phantom workmen, fallen soldiers, young lovers, and executed criminals appear in these pages, along with the living who chance upon them. Though the focus is on the stories themselves, Montell also includes a chapter explaining our fascination with the supernatural and the deep truths these storytelling traditions reveal about our lives and our pasts.William Lynwood Montell, emeritus professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University, is the author of several books, including Killings."


Joseph Holt Mansion

Joseph Holt Mansion

Author: Susan B. Dyer

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781948901062

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Susan B. Dyer's memoir of her quest to help restore the Judge Joseph Holt mansion in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.


Lincoln's Forgotten Ally

Lincoln's Forgotten Ally

Author: Elizabeth D. Leonard

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2011-10-10

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0807869384

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Joseph Holt, the stern, brilliant, and deeply committed Unionist from Kentucky, spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentucky's loyalty to the Union and then went on to serve as President Lincoln's judge advocate general. In Lincoln's Forgotten Ally, Elizabeth Leonard offers the first full-scale biography of Holt, who has long been overlooked and misunderstood by historians and students of the war. In his capacity as the administration's chief arbiter and enforcer of military law, Holt strove tenaciously, often against strong resistance, to implement Lincoln's wartime policies, including emancipation. After Lincoln's assassination, Holt accepted responsibility for pursuing and bringing to justice everyone involved in John Wilkes Booth's conspiracy. It was because of this role, in which he is often portrayed as a brutal prosecutor, and because of his hard position toward the South, Leonard contends, that Holt's reputation suffered. Leonard argues, however, that Holt should not be defined by what Southern sympathizers and proponents of the Lost Cause came to think of him. Lincoln's Forgotten Ally seeks to restore Holt, who dedicated both his energy and his influence to ensuring that the Federal victory would bring about lasting positive change for the nation, to his rightful place in American memory.


National Register of Historic Places, 1966-1994

National Register of Historic Places, 1966-1994

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 960

ISBN-13: 9780891332541

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Lists buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts that possess historical significance as defined by the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, in every state.