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

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

by William A. Penn
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Availability:In StockContributor:William A. PennPublish date:2016-10-07Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813167718ISBN-10:081316771XUPC:9780813167718Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, MilitaryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States, State & LocalSize:9.40 x 6.50 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SCW4SA0W1H

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 li

Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813167718ISBN-10:081316771XUPC:9780813167718Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, MilitaryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States, State & LocalSize:9.40 x 6.50 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SCW4SA0W1H

William A. Penn, editor of the Harrison Heritage News, has published articles in Northern Kentucky Heritage and the Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly.


Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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