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

In this work, William A. Penn provides an impressively detailed account of the region that saw more major military action during the Civil War than anywhere else in Kentucky. Penn draws on dozens of period newspapers as well as personal journals, memoirs, and correspondence from citizens, slaves, so...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Penn, William A., 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Neighbor against neighbor
  • Guarding the railroad
  • Lurking rebels
  • United States v. Lucius Desha
  • The First Battle of Cynthiana
  • In the path of a Confederate invasion
  • Provost marshals, the Federal draft, and African American enrollment
  • The Second Battle of Cynthiana: covered bridge
  • The Second Battle of Cynthiana: Keller's Bridge
  • The Second Battle of Cynthiana: Kimbrough's Hill
  • Rising from the ashes.