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Tag Archives: John Breckinridge
A Chronology of the Confederacy’s 1862 Counterstrokes
Several months ago, I crossed an item off my Civil War bucket list: visiting the Perryville battlefield. While at the visitor center, I watched a video which put the Confederate invasion of Kentucky into the larger context of the war. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Baton Rouge, Battle of Chantilly, Battle of Charleston, Battle of Corinth, Battle of Harpers Ferry, Battle of Iuka, Battle of Munfordville, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Prairie Grove, Battle of Richmond, Battle of Second Bull Run, Battle of Second Manassas, Battle of South Mountain, Braxton Bragg, Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap, Don Carlos Buell, Earl Van Dorn, Edmund Kirby Smith, foreign intervention, France, Francis Herron, George B. McClellan, Great Britain, Great Britain and the Civil War, Henry Halleck, James Blunt, Jefferson Davis, John Breckinridge, John Pope, Kanawha Valley Campaign, Kentucky, Lord Palmerston, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Robert E. Lee, Russia, Sterling Price, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Hindman, William Loring, William S. Rosecrans, Winchester
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Black Bess (Re-)Visited
Last week, Steve Davis shared with us the story of “Black Bess,” John Hunt Morgan’s mare that was turned, by a sculptor’s whim, into a stallion. Because of Steve’s post, I decided to seek out the Morgan statue in Lexington, Kentucky, … Continue reading
Posted in Monuments
Tagged Black Bess, John Breckinridge, john hunt morgan, Lexington Cemetery, Steve Davis
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