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William A. Penn
On April 22, 1861, within weeks of the surrender at Fort Sumter, fresh recruits marched to the Cynthiana, Kentucky, depot—one of the state's first volunteer companies to join the Confederate army. The soldiers boarded a waiting train as many sympat
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William A. Penn
This chapter examines the military defenses on the Bluegrass corridor of the Kentucky Central Railroad, which was important for military transportation and communications. State Guards, Home Guards, and Union volunteers encamped in the Cynthiana, Ky.
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William A. Penn
This chapter describes the Battle of Keller’s Bridge at Cynthiana, Ky., the second of three engagements in the Second Battle of Cynthiana. While the initial battle was being fought in Cynthiana the morning of June 11, 1864, Union reinforcements arr
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William A. Penn
Federal courts indicted but later acquitted General Lucius B. Desha, a prominent Harrison County farmer and politician, for both treason and high misdemeanor; however, Union commanders incarcerated him as a civilian prisoner for three months in Camp
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William A. Penn
When a Confederate officer scribbled in his journal after the Second Battle of Cynthiana that Morgan’s men were “plundering & pillaging … the best rebel town of our native state,” he was expressing a widely held perception that, in the Bluegr
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William A. Penn
This chapter (and map) describes the First Battle of Cynthiana, July 17, 1862, during Col. John Hunt Morgan’ s First Kentucky Raid. Lt. Col. John J. Landram commanded the Union troops at Cynthiana. Morgan’s men, with two cannons, surrounded the t
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William A. Penn
This chapter examines Union attempts during the Civil War to suppress disloyalty with controversial new war measures, including the employment of loyalty oaths and the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, which blocked detained citizens from acce
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813167718.003.0004
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William A. Penn
The focus of the chapter is the Enrollment Act of 1863, which provided for drafts. Also described are the operations of the federal Sixth District Provost Marshal in Covington, under Capt. George W. Berry. Analysis is made of Harrison County’s Prov
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William A. Penn
This chapter examines the fall 1862 path through Harrison County of the Confederate army invasion of Kentucky. It describes Union soldiers building entrenchments and a large stockade at Camp Frazer before retreating north. Union occupation of the cou
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William A. Penn
This chapter discusses the organization in Harrison County of State Guards and Home Guards, and the recruiting of Confederate and Union volunteers. Jo Desha recruited one of the first Kentucky Confederate companies. The activities of the Home Guards
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