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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV7D_soldiers-reaction-to-lincolns-emancipation_Perryville-KY.html
Whether a soldier was Union or Confederate in his loyalties during the Civil War, there was not a unified reaction to Abraham Lincoln's preliminary or official Emancipation Proclamation. The individual reaction varied on either side of this strugg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV7C_perryvile-and-the-emancipation-proclamation_Perryville-KY.html
In mid-1862, President Abraham Lincoln wrestled with the idea of issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. With Confederate armies pressing into Maryland and Kentucky, Lincoln realized that he could not issue the Proclamation until the Union secured …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV77_michigan-at-perryville_Perryville-KY.html
(side 1)Among the 61,000 Union soldiers who at the Battle of Perryville ended Confederate attempts to gain control of Kentucky were six Michigan units. The most heavily engaged of these were Coldwater's Loomis Battery (Battery A of the First Michi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV76_illinois-soldiers-at-perryville_Perryville-KY.html
The Fifty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, commanded by Maj. Joshua Winters, here suffered 113 casualties of 325 engaged. The Seventy-fifth Illinois, Lieut. Col. John E. Bennett, lost 225 of 700. Serving with Col. Michael Gooding's Thirteenth Brigade, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV75_russell-house_Perryville-KY.html
On the knoll, it was a key position on the Union left flank under Maj. Gen. McCook in Battle of Perryville, Oct. 8, 1862. The scene of desperate fighting, it changed hands twice and was hit many times. After the battle it was used as a hospital.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV6D_lincoln-marriage-temple_Harrodsburg-KY.html
The parents of our nation's sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. In this cabin, on June 12, 1806, they were married by Reverend Jesse Head.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV6B_the-lincoln-move-to-the-frontier_Harrodsburg-KY.html
The Lincoln family first came to America in the seventeenth century, originally settling in the Massachusetts Bay colony. The Lincolns continued to move throughout the colonies, settling in present-day New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Thoma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV69_the-lincoln-marriage-cabin_Harrodsburg-KY.html
The marriage of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks took place on the Beechland property of Nancy's uncle, Richard Berry Sr., in Washington County, about twenty-five miles southwest of here, on June 12, 1806. The ceremony was presided over by the Rever…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV66_the-marriage-of-nancy-thomas-lincoln_Springfield-KY.html
On June 12, 1806, Thomas Lincoln traveled to Springfield, Kentucky, to obtain a marriage license to wed Nancy Hanks. Richard Berry, Nancy's uncle, signed the document as guardian of the bride-to-be. Two days later, Thomas Lincoln and Nancy were ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV63_nancy-hanks-and-thomas-lincoln_Springfield-KY.html
Thomas Lincoln
Thomas Lincoln was born on January 7, 1778, in Rockingham County, Virginia, to Captain Abraham and Bathsheba Lincoln. He was the youngest of three sons and the fourth of five children. The Lincoln family migrated from eastern Vir…