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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AQI_battle-of-perryville_Perryville-KY.html
October 8, 1862. Here 16,000 Confederates under General Braxton Bragg fought 22,000 Federals under General Don Carlos Buell. Bragg, facing superior forces, withdrew, Union casualties, 4211; Confederate, 3396.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AML_site-of-first-rural-electric-co-op-substation-in-county_Danville-KY.html
W. H. Rogers, president of Inter-County R.E.C.C., threw the switch at the Perryville substation on June 10, 1938, to energize 56 miles of line to 115 homes. In 2013, on the 75th anniversary of this event, Inter-County Energy served more than 25,00…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AKG_kirkland-home_Perryville-KY.html
Near here was the home of Charles King and Caroline Purdom Kirkland. To escape the Battle of Perryville, they traveled with their 3 young children 10 miles south to the home of Caroline's father in Forkland. When they returned a few days later, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AKF_crawford-springs_Danville-KY.html
As Confederate and Union armies converged over to the west the day and night before great Battle of Perryville, Oct. 8, 1862, there was constant fighting for water. Almost unprecedented drought had made water so scarce that troops contended for po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM171X_lumsdens-battery_Perryville-KY.html
The scene must have been spectacular to the members of Captain Charles Lumsden's artillery battery. Rolling their four cannon up to this hill to support the attacking Confederate infantry, the Southern cannoneers beheld the Union line that stretch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM171R_widow-gibson-cabin_Perryville-KY.html
In 1862, the widow Mary Jane Gibson and her children lived here in a small cabin. The Gibsons were poor tenant farmers who scratched out a living on land owned by Henry Bottom, their first cousin.
On October 8, the household was spun into confu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAB_dr-ephraim-mcdowell-1771-1830-mcdowell-crawford-surgery_Danville-KY.html
Burial site of Ephraim McDowell, the "father of modern surgery." His family moved here from Va. in 1784. He studied medicine in Va. and Scotland before practicing in Danville. In 1802, he married Sarah Shelby, dau. of Ky.'s first gov. Was also a f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXKM_john-todd-stuart-1807-1885_Danville-KY.html
Abraham Lincoln's friend and 1st law partner was born on Nov. 10, 1807, in Fayette Co. The son of a Presbyterian minister & Mary Todd Lincoln's aunt, Stuart graduated from Centre College in 1826. Two years later he became a lawyer in Springfield, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXKL_presbyterian-church_Danville-KY.html
One of three founded, 1784, by Reverend David Rice; earliest of this denomination west of Alleghenies. Here worshipped: James G. Birney, whose presidential candidacy in 1844 caused defeat of Henry Clay; John C. Breckinridge, whose 1860 candidacy r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXKK_lewis-and-clark-in-kentucky-danville_Danville-KY.html
In December 1806, William Clark, coleader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean, visited his nephews in school in Danville. Clark was en route to Washington to report to President Jefferson and other government officials about the…