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On August 29-30, 1862, the Confederate Army of Kentucky under the command of General Edmund Kirby Smith battled Union forces guarding the town of Richmond, Kentucky, led by Union General William Bull Nelson. In The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, author Paul Rominger outlines not only the battle itself, but also the participants, methods, and equipment used in that war. More than just an account of this one Kentucky engagement, this book presents what life was life for combatants throughout the Civil War, how it impacted the nearby communities of Richmond and Berea, and weather conditions in central Kentucky for the year. Approximately 20,000 visitors come to Battlefield Park in Richmond each year to walk its hallowed grounds, visit the museum, or even participate in the annual battlefield re-enactment. The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky is the perfect souvenir for visitors to the area, and a wonderful educational resource about Kentucky's role in the Civil War.
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A comprehensive history of the bloody Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, featuring over sixty historic images and maps. Desperate to seize control of Union-held Kentucky, a border state, the Confederate army launched an invasion into the commonwealth in the fall of 1862. The incursion viciously culminated at an otherwise quiet Bluegrass crossroads and forever altered the landscape of the war. The Battle of Perryville lasted just one day yet produced nearly eight thousand combined casualties and losses, and some say nary a victor. The Rebel army was forced to retreat, and the United States kept its imperative grasp on Kentucky throughout the war. Famous Confederate diarist Sam Watkins, whose Company Aytch journals were featured as a major narrative thread in Ken Burns’ award-winning Civil War documentary series, declared Perryville the hardest fighting that he experienced. Indeed, history would record that Perryville the second bloodiest battle of the Western Theater after Shiloh. Few know this hallowed ground like Christopher L. Kolakowski, former director of the Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association, who draws on letters, reports, memoirs and other primary sources to offer the most accessible and engaging account of the Kentucky Campaign yet, featuring over sixty historic images and maps.
As the Crow Flies; A Civil War Story. This story, based on the Civil War Battle of Richmond, Ky. on August 30, 1862 was told to my Mother, Zelah Hardin Heyer Cate by her grandmother who lived the story. Frances Evaline Williams and Hezekiah (Hezie) Jeremiah Hardin were married in Paris, Kentucky on August 30, 1853 when she was 18 and he was 26. Their home was near Falmouth, Kentucky. It was in December 1861 when Hezie and his father, known by everyone as "Pappy" were in Cynthiana, Kentucky to buy timber and met Captain Daugherty of the 18Th Kentucky Infantry Volunteers who was there to enlist men for the Union Army. Hezie was signed up for one year at $13.00 per month pay. "Pappy" was too old, but became a "camp follower" leaving Hezie to explain to "Ma", (Rhoda) Hardin what he had done. Hezie had a 30 day furlough in order to get "Ma" and family situated in Falmouth with 9Frances and the children at his place until the men could return. Frances was at work in the garden that morning when she heard the thundering sound of horses hooves. It was the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Sgt. John W. Kerrick with the commissary. Frances hid the "good horse" Belle, but left the old blind Bess where she could be seen, knowing they wouldn't take a blind horse. It turned out that Sgt. Kerrick was "kinfolk" fr;om Paris, Kentucky and told her about the fighting below Richmond and the Union Army nearly wiped out. Meanwhile, Hezie, who had been injured at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky had managed to crawl to a place familiar to him where he was given refuge by Zeke and Josie, a couple who were slaves on the White farm. Zeke slipped out of the "Spring House" in the early morning to find help for "Mista" Hezie and found a young Confederate soldier tending to the dead and wounded over the fields. To their amazement, the young soldier turned out to be a student of medicine at Tulane, in New Orleans, "Pokie, Frances' brother! He tended to Hezie's wound until he could find a surgeon who cleaned the cauterized it. Then he left Hezie in the care of Zeke and Josie. Pokie sent a letter to his parent in Paris to let Frances know where Hezie was. Frances immediately sets about making plans to get tho him. On September 24, 1862 Frances
"Major General William "Bull" Nelson played a formative role in the Union's success in Kentucky and the Western theater in the CIvil War... David C. Clark presents a long-overdue examination of an irascible officer, his numerous accomplishments, and his grim fate ... During September of 1862, in a crime that was never prosecuted, fellow Union general Jefferson C. Davis shot and killed Nelson after an argument. Clark explores this remarkable exception in military law, arguing that while the fact of the murder was indisputable, prosecution of the murder went by the wayside because a public angered by the arrogant behavior of Federal officers generally approved of Davis having dispatched an abusive tyrant ... This comprehensive study -- the first biography of Nelson -- eliminates previous misconceptions about a well-known yet misunderstood Civil War general"--Dust jacket.