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The Civil War Panicked Eastern Jefferson County Iss?2Ts r r Y v T T " V THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1976, THE AND THE PROSPECT NEWS, SECTION B, PAGE 11 The Civil War panicked eastern Jefferson County ISs?2ts dropout who went on to make it big; A sophomore at Kings College in the By Lee Standish gunboat to for the inauguration of a Rebel Confederates were slower. thwart the crossing. Many town and killed him. spring of 1775. he stopped a group Morgan's pi governor. Because of this, fighting On Oct. 4 Bragg was in Frankfort of men were captured. There were less than 70,000 people who wanted tooust The students the school's date was Sept. 22, 1862 and around Louisville was limited to inaugurating a Confederate governor, Kentucky sent about 30,000 men to living in Louisville at the time of the Tory eastern militant president. Jefferson County was in a skirmishes. Richard Hawes of Bourbon County. the Confederates and 108,000 men to Civil War, and the area outside the Known for both his support tjie panic. of The night of Sept. 27 a skirmish Hawes' speech at the ceremony the Union. city in Jefferson County was mostly patriots and for his stance on individual The reason: two Confederate took place a short distance east of was interrupted by Sill's and the On the Union side, many local farms. rights, he harangued the mob and the armies were in command of Frankfort Middletown. A Confederate force Union forces' shelling of the town. residents joined the Louisville Legion Slaves were numerous here. Most president escaped. Hamilton then left to and Bardstown. Louisville, the big- estimated at between 1,500 and 5,000 The new Confederate governor fled (5th Kentucky Infantry). This was the of the slave owners the upper class join the cause becoming an aide de earap gest Union military supply shipping men drove the Federal pickets back a after only four hours in office. ed "Paper Collar Regiment" were Southern sympathizers. But to George Washington and never went point in the west, was thought to be mile toward Louisville. In the meantime, Buell's forces which fought at Perryville and was most of the working class sided with back to college. their target. On the 30th Rebel pickets advanced dislodged the Rebel rear guard from decimated. the Union. Nevertheless in 1784, the student That day, Union Gen. William as far as Gilman's Point (now St. Bardstown. The Confederates headed On the Southern side, the impetus The announcement of the Eman- rebel was named a trustee of that sarte "Bull" Nelson, who was in command' Matthews) and skirmished with south toward Perryville. for the famed Orphan Brigade (1st cipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, college newly christened Columbia. of Louisville's defenses, ordered all Federal pickets. It was at Perryville where the Kentucky Infantry), considered by changed some local opinion. There women, children and Southern sym- A detatchment of 6,000 to 7,000 bloodiest Civil War battle in Kentucky two Confederate generals to be the was more anti-Linco- ln thinking, if not pathizers out of the weakly-defende- d Confederates were reported ad- took place, on Oct. 8, 1862. best in the Rebel armies, came from anti-Unio- n sentiment. And after the PBK started small city. They fled to Jeffersonville across vancing on Gilman's Point. Union Tactically, Peryville was a Con- Louisville also. war it became fashionable to have Phi Beta Kappa was founded Jet Ohio. the infantry, cavalry and artillery were federate victory. But the Rebel troops Gilman's Point (St. Matthews) been for the South. William & Mary College on Dec. 5, 1776 The Confederate cavalry already drawn up in line of battle about a mile withdrew after midnight, heading raised a cavalry unit for the Union. Kentucky tried to be neutral when as a social fraternity of five students. jit had attacked Shepherdsville, only 20 west of Middletown as far as Floyds South, and did not fight Buell again in Guerillas, loyal to nothing but their the war started, but both Southern was the first social fraternity at in miles from Louisville, but they were Fork Creek. Kentucky. pockets, operated in the eastern part and Yankee invasions stopped that. American college. In 1831 Phi Beta driven back. One Confederate general On Oct. 1 Rebel cavalry drove This fall advance of Rebel units to of the county from about 1863 on. By September of 1861 Union army Kappa became an honorary fraternity had threatened to destroy the canal at Union pickets back within two or three within a few miles was Louisville's They robbed, pillaged and killed, and officials were in Louisville and they for students who had achieved academic Louisville "as soon as possible." miles of Louisville. closest call during the Civil War. hit both civilians and the military. stayed throughout the war. distinction. Louisville had few defenses, and no Meantime, Buell was reorganizing. A year before, in October of 1861, In the fall of 1864 the body of a organized military units were in town On Oct. 1 he took out after Bragg and Confederate Gen. Simon Bolivar Union soldier was found on Bards- to fight the Rebel armies of Gen. Smith, in Bardstown and Frankfort Buckner had sent advance forces to town Pike. In retaliation, four cap- Braxton Bragg and Kirby Smith. respectively. lebanon Junction, 30 miles south of tured guerillas were taken from The Kentucky Legislature had fled Buell sent a couple of divisions Louisville. But he never intended to prison in Louisville to Jeffersontown. Owen M. Isaac Frankfort with the state's archives under Gen. Joshua W. Wills to take the city, only to disrupt rail lines. They were shot in a grove of trees and $1,000,000 in state funds and was Frankfort, hoping that Bragg would And Confederate Gen. John Hunt behind what is now the Jeffersontown in session at the Jefferson County think the whole Union force was Morgan's cavalrymen raided Ken- Community Center. Courthouse. heading that way. The rest of Buell's tucky several times. In the fall of 1862 They protested that they were But a Union army under Gen. Don forces headed for Bardstown, going they got within 30 miles of Louisville actually Rebel soldiers, but union And PAINTING Carlos Buell ahd been marching north out Taylorsville, Bardstown, and before being turned back. authorities had them shot anyhow. CONTRACTOR since Sept. 10 from Nashville to Shepherdsville (Preston Street) pikes:' In July of 1863 Bragg urged One was said to be a defend Louisville. Skirmishes were continuous, as Morgan to capture Louisville, and on chaplain. Two days after Nelson had ordered Buell's advance units met Bragg's the 6th of July he took Bardstown. Forty years later the United the city partially evacuated, the first rear guard. On Oct. 1 there was one at But instead of heading for Louis- Daughters of the Confederacy called Union units reached Louisville. By Fern Creek. ville, he and most of his men veered them martyrs, "shot without cause or CELEBRATION SALE Sept. 27 Buell's entire army of 40,000 The next day an artillery duel west to Brandenburg, and crossed the trial." The UDC set up a tombstone men was there. broke out at Floyds Fork when 2,000 Ohio into Indiana. Morgan's men over their graves in a Jeffersontown The expected attack didn't come Rebel cavalry momentarily stopped rode through Indiana and Ohio, cemeteiy. then. Sill's advance. The Federals, ac- pursued by Federal troops. The raids were frequent in the 10 - 20 30 OFF General Bragg had become enam- cording to one story, captured 40,000 During that July, 1863 chase, a few eastern part of the county. Dr. Luther or ored of the political aspects of his rounds of Southern ammunition in an of Morgan's men, about 150 of them Paris Wetherby, a retired surgeon campaign. A Confederate state con- old house at Floyds Fork. under Capt. William J. Davis, were with the (U.S.) 15th Kentucky vention had been held in 1861, and At Long Run the Union men fought sent by Morgan as a diversionary Cavalry, wrote a letter telling of ENTIRE STOCK OF Southern sympathizers had voted to a strong Rebel force. And on tactic to cross the Ohio at Twelve Mile guerillas raiding in Middletown. join the Confederacy. Bardstown Road, 25 Federals were Island. Wetherby also said the bandits Now Bragg sent his officers to killed in skirmishes on Oct. 2 alone. Union officials thought it was the grabbed a Union officer at the head of Frankfort from Bardstown to arrange The pursuit was slow. But the whole Morgan outfit, and they sent a Broadway, brought him to Middle- - FINE HOME FURNISHINGS JULY 6-- 10 Descendants of Civil War heroes listed 519 Barret Avenue Mon. - Frl. 9 to 5 583-440- There are many Jefferson Countians Journal merged in 1868. grand- - and great-gran- d children here. Kentucky. (502) 7 Sat 10 to 4 who are descendants of persons The grandchildren are Miss Julia Duke Mrs. Neville Blakemore of 424 Mrs. Don Christian of 1708 Brent-moo- r in Civil War. Henning of 1009 Cherokee Road, and prominent the For Mayfair Lane, and Mrs. Woodford Lane in Anchorage is a James W. Henning of Covered Bridge instance: Dulaney, 14 River Hill Road, are great great granddaughter of Confed- is James and Joshua Speed were descendants of Confederate Col. Phillip Road. The erate Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer, a descendants of the Speeds who built Mrs. Bosworth M. Todd, Jr., of 452 Lightfoot Lee on their father's side.
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