Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each ... block until the end of the Civil War. As tensions mounted, John Hunt ...

Join us as we walk Kentucky’s historic grounds, metal detectors in hand, searching for lost remnants of the Civil War. From buttons to bullets, each discovery connects us to the soldiers who ...

Old Forester was also one of the few offered a medicinal license during prohibition and is named for a Civil War-era surgeon ... We finished our time in Kentucky at Bardstown Bourbon Co. in ...

On a January day in 1865, Company E of the United States Colored Cavalry was ambushed by a group of Confederate guerrillas in Simpsonville, Kentucky ... Miller came across a map from 1936 that marked ...

On Jan. 25, 1865, a company of Black Union soldiers was ambushed by Confederate guerrillas in Simpsonville, Kentucky. Kentucky was technically neutral during ... map that clearly marked a Civil ...

Kentucky is famous for producing bourbon, and the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown has been in operation ... which specializes in books about the Civil War and hard-to-find or out-of-print ...

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 ...

The Civil War Museum Complex demonstrates ... and special offers in Bardstown, be sure to visit their official website or Facebook page. Use this map to navigate your way through this charming ...

Welcome to Bardstown, Kentucky – a small town with a big personality ... After stuffing yourself at the tavern, waddle on over to the Civil War Museum. Willett Distillery: Where bourbon barrels go to ...

Fort Donelson Surrendered, Tennessee-Kentucky Border, United... General US Grant and Union troops captured Fort Donelson February 11–16, 1862, near the Tennessee–Kentucky border, opening the ...