1 - The Complete Civil War 1861-1865 Workbook - Kentucky

1 The Paper Trail of the Civil War in Kentucky 1861-1865 1 The Paper Trail Of the Civil War In Kentucky 1861-1865 Compiled by Colonel (Ret.) Ar-mando Al Alfaro Al Alfaro 651 Raven Drive Frankfort, KY 40601 502 223-8318 This publication pertaining to the Civil War in Kentucky is a special edition spanning the four years of the Civil War 1861-1865 . Almost every entry in this publication is refer-enced to the specific item it was obtained from. It will be incorporated into the work in progress book enti-tled, The Paper Trail of the Ken-tucky National Guard that will be published in 2002.

2 The finished book will be a compilation of the military his-tory of each of the 120 counties of the Commonwealth. The over 720 pages will be an excellent reference book on Kentucky s military history from the War of 1812 to the present day Army and Air Kentucky National Guard. The Paper Trail of the Civil War in Kentucky 1861-1865 2 Index Pg Civil War Casualties 3 22 Courthouses Burned 3 Lincoln s Gettysburg Address 3 Civil War Unit Organizations 3 Civil War Skirmishes 3 Riders Horse Hoof Determines Death 3 Kentucky Confederate Units 3 Kentucky Union Units 4

3 Kentucky US Colored Troop Units 5 Taps 5 Civil War Campaign Streamers 6 Seven Civil War Soldiers Become 6 Presidents Mortality Rate During the Civil War 7 280 Civil War Highway Markers 7 Tell the Stories Chronological Record of Ky Units 7 During Civil War A synopsis of the Civil War 1861-1865 9 Adair Allen - Anderson 12 Ballard Barren 13 Bath 14 bell Boone Bourbon 15 Boyd Boyle 16 Bracken - Breathitt 17 Breckinridge Bullitt 18 Butler Caldwell 19 Calloway Campbell Carlisle Carroll 20 Carter Casey Christian 21 Clark Clay - Clinton 22 Crittenden Cumberland

4 Daviess 23 Edmonson 24 Elliott Estill Fayette 25 Fleming Floyd 27 Franklin 28 Fulton 29 Gallatin Garrard 30 Grant Graves 31 Grayson Green Greenup - Hancock 32 Hardin - Harlan 33 Harrison 34 Hart 35 Index Pg Henderson 36 Henry Hickman 37 Hopkins Jackson Jefferson 38 Jessamine 41

5 Johnson 42 Kenton 43 Knott Knox 44 Larue Laurel 45 Lawrence Lee Leslie Letcher - Lewis 46 Lincoln Livingston - Madison 47 Logan Lyon - Madison 48 Magoffin 49 Marion Marshall Martin Mason 50 McCracken 51 McCreary 52 Meade 53 Menifee Mercer 54 Metcalfe Monroe Montgomery 55 Morgan Muhlenberg - Nelson 56 Nicholas 57 Ohio Oldham - Owen 58 Owsley Pendleton

6 - 59 Perry Pike Powell Pulaski 60 Robertson Rockcastle - Rowan 62 Russell - Scott 63 Shelby - Simpson 64 Spencer - Taylor 65 Todd Trigg 66 Trimble Union 67 Warren 68 Washington Wayne 69 Webster Whitley Wolfe - Woodford 70 The Paper Trail of the Civil War in Kentucky 1861-1865 3 Civil War Casualties The North put million men in uniform half of its entire draft-age population.

7 The South mustered 800,000 men, an astounding 75 percent of its white draft-age popu-lation. More soldiers died about 625,000 than in all of America s 20th century wars. Reference: Lexington-Herald Leaders, Sunday, 12 November 2000, page F2, 22 Courthouses Burned During Civil War Twenty-two Kentucky courthouses were burned during the Civil War, nineteen in the last fifteen months. Twelve by Confederates, eight by guer-rillas, and two by Union accident. Guerrillas burned the courthouse and records at Stanton in the spring of 1863.

8 Building was rebuilt and in 1864 the jail and records were burned again. Reference: Excerpts from Kentucky Historical Society Highway Marker #587, KHS Frankfort These courthouses were located at Mayfield, Cadiz, Marion, Princeton, Hopkinsville, Madisonville, Owensboro, Hartford, Hardinsburg, Leitchfield, Tompkinsville, Hodg- enville, Taylorsville, Lebanon, Campbellsville, Brooksfield, Albany, Harlan, Stanton, Mt. Sterling, Owingsville and Morehead, Reference: Page 73, Call To Arms, Colonel (ret.)

9 Larry L. Arnett, Kentuckee Publishing Co., Frankfort. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address On 19 November 1863, President Abraham Lincoln de-livered on of the world s most compelling speeches at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, PA site of a decisive battle 1-3 July 1863. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great Civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.

10 We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little not