one of the bloodiest battles Kentucky experienced during the Civil War, according to the Harrodsburg Historical Society. Joni House, a historian who is associated with the non-profit organization ...

More than 160 years ago the sound of cannons and gunfire rang out across the valley outside Prestonsburg as the largest Civil War battle fought in Eastern Kentucky unfolded. "It's one of few ...

Historian and battlefield guide Darryl Smith will present “The Battle of Perryville and The Kentucky Campaign” at the next regular meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley ...

Kentucky was a border state during the Civil War and the site of many intense battles. As many as 40,000 Kentuckians served in the Confederacy and about 100,000 were in the Union Army, according ...

Missouri was a border state during the American Civil War, and Missourians ... Leonidas Polk's rebel troops in Kentucky from reinforcing their armies in Arkansas. The battle was a back-and-forth ...

A Civil War-era treasure of more than 700 gold coins was unearthed in a Kentucky cornfield, a find that has at least partly vindicated legends of lost Civil War gold that have driven American ...

They tell the tale of the Tobacco Wars—a years-long battle fought largely in Kentucky ... help fuel the nation’s economy during and after the Civil War, which placed states like Tennessee, Kentucky, ...

By Chris Cameron A Civil War-era treasure of more than ... several coins minted in 1862 and 1863, when Kentucky was the site of fierce battles between the United States and the Confederacy.