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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TPM_battle-of-rowletts-station-historical_Munfordville-KY.html
Now a fight ensued such as seldom occurs ...
- Colonel August Willich, 32nd Indiana
In December 1861, Confederate General Thomas Hindman came from Bowling Green to probe the growing Union strength at Munfordville. Hindman believed that if h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TPL_early-gunpowder-mill-historical_Magnolia-KY.html
Two miles east on Lynn Camp Creek John Courts built, 1811-12, first commercial gunpowder mill in the State of Kentucky. Located near two large springs that furnished power to grind the charcoal made on site. Mixed with saltpeter and sulphur, finer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TPK_site-aetna-furnace-historical_Magnolia-KY.html
Built in 1816, first iron furnace in western half of Kentucky. Salt and iron sought by early settlers. Charles Wilkins, Ruggles Whiting, and Jacob Holderman were partners in this furnace until 1826, when Holderman became the sole owner. Property i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TNT_unknown-confederate-soldier-monument-historical_Horse-Cave-KY.html
Unknown
Soldier C.S.A.
Was a Member
Of Gen.
Clay Anderson
Division
11th Louisiana
Killed
Sept. 9, 1862
Erected 1934
by
Sam Lively
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NRM_fort-craig_Munfordville-KY.html
The mound on the hilltop before you is Fort Craig, a five-pointed earthen "star fort" that saw the fiercest fighting of the Civil War Battle and Siege of Munfordville, September 14-17, 1862. Forces of the 7th, 9th, and 29th Mississippi I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NQX_l-n-railroad-bridge_Munfordville-KY.html
By 1857, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad lacked only one connection for through trains to travel between the two cities—a bridge over Green River. Irish stonecutters John W. Key and sons were hired for two years to construct the piers th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NQM_battle-of-munfordville-siege_Munfordville-KY.html
When Braxton Bragg arrived at Green River, Cyrus Dunham had taken command of the Union garrison. The 15th had been spent clearing casualties from the field, but by the next day, gunfire erupted from Bragg's advance guard, starting a day-long excha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NOH_battle-of-munfordville-day-1_Munfordville-KY.html
An "unauthorized and injudicious" attack ...
General James R. Chalmers was sent by General Bragg as a vanguard to Cave City. There, Chalmers learned from Col. John Scott of a weak Union garrison at Munfordville. Eager for glory—…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NOF_battle-of-rowletts-station_Munfordville-KY.html
Four hundred yards west of this site, December 17, 1861, Colonel B.F. Terry, 8th Texas Cavalry, CSA, was killed. He was leading his Rangers in a charge against troops, formed in a hollow square, of the 32nd Indiana Volunteers under the command of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NLB_texas-memorial_Munfordville-KY.html
(Front Side)
Texas
Remembers the valor and devotion of its sons who served with distinction on Kentucky battlefields during the Civil War.
At Houston, Texas, during August and September 1861, Benjamin Franklin Terry and Thomas S. Lubbock orga…