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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 11:32:01 -0400 (EDT)

If you take KYRESEARCH online then just delete.

This does not give all the battles, but it certainly does give alot of info.

Pat
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Date: 97-10-03 06:17:22 EDT

TIP #90 - KENTUCKY TIME LINE 1863 and 1864 - A Time of Much Bloodshed.

Here is the next time line per the old records of Collins'. Again, I am
not including every battle.

Jan 2: Morgan's Men cross the Cumberland River at Burkesville and head on
to Smithville, TN. L&N railroad line destroyed, 1,877 prisoners taken. Jan
15 & 16: Heavy snows blanket KY - up to 10 inches at Paris & lexington, 18
inches at Maysville. Jan 15: Railroad bridge over the KY River swept away
by a flood at Frankfort. Feb 8: Richard Springer, a Rev War soldier, 104
yrs old who lives in Louisville - wounded at Germantown, served
Brandywine, can't get a pension because they say he can't prove his
service. Mar 30: Battle of Dutton Hill, 1 1/2 miles from Somerset in
Pulaski Co, 250 lost; 60 killed or wounded on the Federal side. Apr 1:
"Brain fever" rages thru the Confederate ranks in southern KY - patient
suffers terrible pain in the back of the head and spine, extremeties
become very cold, patient goes into a coma and dies within a few hours.
Apr 3: John Curtis kills a record-sized panther weighing 111 pounds 5 1/2
miles from Lixington on the Frankfort Road. Apr 20: Gen Burnside orders
the arrest of any person guilty of trafficking in Confederate scrip. Apr
22: Confederate raid at Tompkinsville, Monroe Co, courthouse and several
other buildings burned. Apr 23: Elijah Denny dies in Rockcastle Co - age
110, a Rev. war soldier. May 6: 33 soldiers from the 27th NJ drown while
trying to cross the Cumberland River at Stagall's ferry. May 22: Burning
of Transylvania Medical Hall, Lexington, KY - no lives lost. June 3: A
number of females arrested at Demossville in Pendleton Co and at some
other points - sent to the south, considered dangerous to the US
Government. June 6: Locomotive-boiler explosion on the KY Central RR at
Nicholasville, 6 killed, 12 wounded. June 15: Provost Marshalls in each
county busy enrolling the militia of KY. Sept 2: 70 guerillas enter
Flemingsburg, and rob the bank and citizens. Sept 4: John W. Coffey and
Christopher Coffey of the 27th KY infantry (federal) shot at Munfordsville
in Hart Co for desertion. Oct 27 thru 24: Guerrilas in large force visit
Columbia, Greensburg, Bardstown, Danville and elsewhere frightening and
pillaging the citizens. Oct 25: President Lincoln exempts KY from negro
enlistments as soldiers. Nov 13: Lexington city council purchases 1,000
cords of wood for distribution to the city's poor. Dec 1: Confederate
cavalary burns the courthouse at Mt Sterling, releases all the prisoners
from jail and capture 100 horses. Dec 1: A Ky major, captain and 4
lieutenants (Federal) dismissed from service by order of Washington, DC
for disloyalty, drunkenness, cowardice and abandonment. Dec 13: A file of
soldiers, as the large congregation of a Black church at Lexington are
dismissed - arrests all the men, young and old, marches them all to jail -
sent the next day to work on military roads. Dec 25: Monroe Co KY has
only 704 enrolled militia.

1864: Jan 1: Mild weather turns bad at dusk, rain - then sleet followed
by violent winds. 8 below zero at Lexington. Jan 18: Col. Bruce, at
Louisville ordered coffee houses closed for selling liquour to soldiers.
Feb 5: Legislature passes new laws including repeal of the act of 1862
which exempted school children from paying tolls for using the toll roads
on the way to school; legalizes a mode for loyal residents and citizens of
KY to prove their claim for loss or damages caused by U S soldiers;
protests agains the US Army and requests President Lincoln to remove black
soldier camps from the limits or borders of the state; establishes a $100
to $5,000 fine againsts citizens and 3-12 months imprisonment for aiding
and abetting the Confederate forces or harboring them, for failing to
notify the authorities of pending raids. Feb 10: 10,112 sheep have been
killed by dogs in KY last year, valued at $2.00 each. Feb 23: The Kentucky
University building at Harrodsburg is destroyed by fire. Mar 12: Mrs John
Lott of Muhlenburg County gives birth to quadruplets - all boys - had just
given birth to twins less than 11 months before. Mar 21: Court houe at
Morehead in Rowan Co burned and the one at Owingsville in Bath Co. The
latter from carlessness of Federal soldiers, the first - arson. April 8:
13 houses burned in the business portion of Harrodsburg. May 11: Violent
snow storm at Covington. June 1: Guerrillas hit Stanton in Powell Co, burn
the jail and "turn over" the clerk's office. July 1 and 2: 2,151 rebel
prisoners transferred from military prisons at Louisville to others north
of the Ohio River. July 1: Large fire in Louisville on Main Street betwen
9th and 9th. July 11: Guerrillas attack Elizabethtown in Hardin Co, are
repulsed. July 15: Over 12,000 blacks have been taken out of KY and
enlisted elsewhere. July 18: 24 women and children arrive at the
Louisville Military prison who were arrested by Gen. Sherman - they
ordered to be sent down the river to New Orleans, and thence out by sea
and deported out of the country. July 28: An order issued by Gen Sherman
to Gen Burbridge for the arrest of many leading and prominent citizens of
KY. Included were:

Louisville & Jefferson Co: Johshua F Bullitt (chief justice of KY), Dr.
Henry F. Kalfus (former Maj of 15th Ky Fed Inf), W. K. Thomas, Alfred
Harris, G W G payne, Jos R Buchanan, Thos Jeffries, M J Paul, John Hines,
John Colgan, Henry Stickrod, Michael Carroll, Wm Fitzhenry, Erwin Bell, A
J Brannon, Thos Miller, A J Mitchelll, John Rudd, Chas J Clarke, B C
Redford, John H Talbor, W G Gray.

Gallatin Co - Dr. A B Chambers, Garrett Furnish.

Boone Co: Dr John Dulaney, Spencer Fish, Henry Terrell, Warren Rogers,
Edmund Grant and Jas T Grant.

Kenton Co: Daniel Mooar, M Duke Moore, John W Leathers, Green Clarkson, W
D F Timberlake, F M Northcutt, Wm Coleman, W W Wilson, Robert M Carlisle,
Samuel Howard.

Warren Co - 22 men, not named, arrested & brought to Louisville, names
suppressed by the military.

Boyd Co: Hon. Laban T Moore.

Livingston Co: Judge Wiley P Fowler, Reuben A Cropton, John Lefler, C
Bennett, Theodore Davis and --- Law.

Owen Co - Pascal Ayers, Jas W. Baker.

Aug 9: Squire Turner, a distinguished citizen of Richmond, Madison Co,
age 72, show and dangerously wounded by Col Shackelford. Aug 10: Gen
Paine banishes from Paducah to Canada (sent under the guard of black
soldiers), the following citizens: Mrs Robrt Woolfolk and family (8
people - her second banishment), Mrs Hobbs, Mrs Melrouse and her sister,
Robert Shanklin. Banished from Columbus: Mrs Dowell, Mr. Malone, Geo B
Moore, Pembroke Walker, Burns Walker, James Morton, R E Cooke, N. Cooke,
Judge Vance, McKean Hubbard, James Moore (formerly a postmaster). Aug 15:
Richmond Berry and May Hamilton taken to Bloomfield in Nelson Co to be
executed in retaliation for the killing at that place of J R Jones by
guerrillas. Aug 20: Guerrillas burn the railroad depot at Woodburn in
Warren Co. Sept 2: John Jackson Nickell ssentenced by a military
commission for acting as a guerrilla in KY and thus killing 2 men, hung on
Johnson's Island near Sandusky, OH - he had served for 3 years in the
Confederate Army in KY. Sept 4: John Hunt Morgan is betrayed, surprised
and surrounded at Greenville, in East TN. Morgan killed as he tried to
escape. Sept 19: Draft in KY calls for 500,000 troops. Many of the men
drafted mysteriously disappear - joining either the Confederate troops,
escaping to Canada, or provide black substitutes. Oct 13: 40 guerrillas
burn the jail at Irvine in Estille Co and then plunder the town. Oct 13:
Bethel, in Bath Co plundered, county judge is whipped with a strap. Oct
23: Tilton in Fleming Co plundered. Nov 3: Wm Long of Maysville, W. Tithe
of Williamstown in Grant Co, Wm D Darbro ner Dallasburg in Owen Co and R W
Yates of Bacon Creek in Hart Co, arrested on their way to join the
Confederates. All shot to death, bodies still lying on the floor at the
depot where shot 16 hours later. Nov 6: Cheney & Jones, two rebels, sent
from the military prison at Louisville, to Munfordsville in Hart Co to be
executed for the murder of James Madison Morry of Co A, 13th Ky Inf. Nov
7: Jas Hopkins, John W Sipple and Samuel Stagdale supposed to be guerillas
executed by order of military authoriteis in Nelson Co. Nov 9: 4
guerrillas executed by order of Gen burbridge at Mr. Harper's laste
residence, 2 miles south of Midway in Woodford Co in retaliation for the
killing of Mr. Harper on Nov 1 by Sue Munday's band. Nov 19: More
guerrilas sent to Hart Co for execution - W C Martin, W B Dunn, John
Edmonson, J M Jones, W L Robinson, John Tomlinson, A B Tudor and Sanford
Turley. Dec 23: Court house at Campbellsville, Taylor Co burned, but Gen
Lyon's Confederate troops had ordered the removal of records and papers to
a place of safety.

To be continued - Sandi Tuesday, I'll list more Revolutionary War
soldiers per Collins.

(c) Oct 2, 1997, Sandra K. Gorin, All Rights Reserved.

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