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Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County

By William A. Penn
Hardcover
$45.00
By William A. Penn
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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 sympathetic city and county officials cheered. A Confederate flag was raised at the Harrison County courthouse but it was taken down within six months, as the influence of pro-Southern officials diminished. However, this "pestilential little nest of tre...

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HistoryUnited States History19th Century United States History - Civil WarUnited States History - Southern RegionUnited States Civil War - General & MiscellaneousKentucky - State & Local HistoryUnited States Civil War - Individual Battles & CampaignsKentucky->Civil War, 1861-1865->Campaigns & Battles