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Civil War Times Magazine
Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia by Brian D. McKnight, University of Kentucky Press, 2006, 312 pages, $40. The Appalachian highlands of western Virginia and eastern Kentucky is terrible country in...
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Civil War Times Magazine
Columns of Confederate infantry, artillery and cavalry darkened Kentucky’s roads in the late summer of 1862. While these troops marched northward. General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia entered Maryland. The presence of...
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Civil War Times Magazine
The Civil War in the Big Sandy Valley of Kentucky by John David Preston, Gateway Press Granted, a handful of studies have already examined Confederate General Humphrey Marshall’s endeavors in eastern Kentucky in 1862 or have analyzed the...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Remembering Kentucky’s Confederates by Geoffrey R. Walden, Arcadia Publishing, 2009, $21.99 Geoffrey Walden’s new book Remembering Kentucky’s Confederates provides a rewarding look into the lives of the many Bluegrass...
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America's Civil War Magazine
The 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War: A History and Roster by Dennis W. Belcher, McFarland, 2010, $45 The First Commander of the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry was future U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan,...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Former Confederates wrote accounts of their wartime experiences for various magazines and newspapers including The Southern Bivouac....
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Multi-legged dangers lurked in camp and field. Civil War soldiers expected to duck bullets and bomb bursts. But Ohioan William W. Richardson discovered that a simple crawling creature could also lay a fighting man low, and even cause a...
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American History Magazine
Kentucky native Cassius Marcellus Clay—no, the other one—threw and drew more than his share of hard-hitting punches...
