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SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HISTORICAL QUARTF^RLY Vol. 2 Glasgow, Kentucky, July, 1974 No. 2 CONT^TS page THE CIVIL WAR IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY - -CONCLUSION . X THE PATTONS OF. DONEGAL - 5 KENIUOCY COUNTM^S W LORD DUNMORE^S WAR 10 1814-15 BARREN COUNTY KENTUCKY TAX LISTS BROADY FAMILY - GENEALOGY wanted; COL. JOHN HUNT M0R3AN & RAIDERS STOa<.TON*S VALLEY ASSOCIATION elder JOSEPH DENTON - OBITUARY ^*7 CLINTON COUNTY KENTUCKY VITAL STATISTICS 20 JOHN MONROE REV. V7AR PENSION APPLICATION 22 RICHARD WADE REV. VJAR PENSION APPLICATION 22 QUERIES. .. NEWS - NOTES - NOTICES 26 ORDER FORM - "TIMES OF LONG AGO" BY FRANKLIN GORIN • . NOTICE: We ask your patience - the printer of the "Gorin" book says it will be approximately six weeks. Membership Dues $3,00 Per Calendar Year Payable to Address Below Published Quarterly By South Central Kentucky Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. P. O. Box SO Glasgow, Kentucky. 42141 THE CIVIL WAR IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY CONCLUSION Dr Lowell H Harrison - Dept of History Western Kentucky University Bowling Green Ky 42141 Thomas wanted to move into east Tennessee, but plies in that region would not support an advance.^ Ins . told to move to Lebanon where he would be in position to c p - Buell's planned march against Bowling Green. cantured But events in the west altered Buell's plans. US , Fort Henry on February 6, and it was apparent that y probably fall within a short time. (It did his flanks crumbling, Albert Sidney Johnston star -u va a Bowling Green on February 11, and Federal troopf^ '^'^'^"^^.mat'ion of few clays later. Thus ended the longest Con::ederr..e occupation o South-Central Kentucky. , _ r^nsin- Many Confederates would pass through this area der of the war, but few of them could linger time. lndeed,'it seems to me that the best way to view the role of this section of the state for the res o^ ronfederate armies consider it as a broad gateway into Kentucky, iikelv to be the or r^a„. .h. «... posedBluegrasscriticalregion,problemsLouisville,if troopsand thetriedcincinnato 3° very_far^east^o£_th^^^these 20 counties, and Bowling Green was strongly f jti ^nd out of toward the ;est. Thus most of the Confederate traffic xnand^out ot the state passed through this section with such kinsville, Burkesville, Campbellsville, Co-um Let times seeing more soldiers more often than ey luporv me cite a few examples to illustrate this ^g^l for his later In May 1862 John Hunt Morgan, in a sort of rehe ^ force exploits, led some 50 men ° Cave City where he some ten times his number, so he rode around burned one train, then captured another. MorgM Rive'", the vicinity of Burkesville where he crossed Two months later, in July 1862, Morgan ^eoond irg in this time by way of Xompkinsville. Basil Dut«, ^^9 in command and his brother-in-law, was a some t^v:^y Tver® be- sang his "Song of the Raiders" as they crossed .vh.r r.r.y ^vur- De g?.nning to think of as their river. On the Cumberland's bosom, The moonbeams And the path of the raid, Is made plain by And across the wide ripple. And up the s^^ep I see the ^ark squadron, Move rank after ran . They captured some 300 ^J°^g''confedektes" especially to GlOsgow which was home for a number of t r-^Tif^derates halted members of Company Cin the 2nd Ky Cavalry. The confederates haltea several hours for breakfast and rest, and many of the ^ visit families and friends. A heavy rainstorm drenched the but Morgan and a handful of others pushed on ® ^ George "Lightnin"' Ellsworth cut into the telegraph ^ valuable infornation about the enemy's troop locations a -nved Then they crossed Green River, which many of them knew ^ on into the Bluegrass on July 11. Morgan created Crab for a week, then made a rapid march which carried e c thev orchard, Somerset, and back into the safety of f '^^rams passed through Somerset, Ellsworth sant a number o ped- to various Unionists, including one signed vri.th Korgan I'Xhis eral General Jeremiah Boyle. "Good morring, ^ telegraph is a great institution. You should destroy me posted too well. My friend Ellsworth has all your disp July 10 on file. Do you want copies?" the late Amajor Confederate offensive into Kentucky came ^ summer 1862. Braxton Bragg had wanted to fight ^ invading Ken- essee, then invade Kentucky, but Kirby Smith -.nsx.ted tucky first. So Bragg feinted toward Nashville, t — Kentucky isville. Meantime, Kirby Smith had moved a smaller a y via Cumberland Gap. Morgan, who cut ^uell's mam supp y troying railraod tunnels between Gal latin an ^ ^ ' This time Mor- Kirby smith to meet him in Lexington ®®P^®^g^ched on the morning gan cane through Scottsville, Glasgow (which he reacnea o of August 29) Columbia and Danville; it was Septemb issue a tered Lexington. Morgan's men were in GJ-^f^ow long^_^ newspaper which one page extra edition of the Vxdette, thexr s - appearedBragg'sat irregularmain armyintervals,reached Glasgow_ by Septei^er. , 13; the^next^daynext day he issued a proclamation designed to lure recrui s ° tihut to re- "Vte come not as conquerors or as despoxlers,' e e i . cruel store to you the liberties of which you have been ^eprxved by^a crue^^^ and relentless foe." Confederate General James RC^ Hoosier Munfordville where he encountered a determine i un Wilder Colonel, John T Wilder, an iron manufacturer surrender repulsed several attacks, and when ^sh to avoid "to avoid further bloodshed," VJxlder replied. y further bloodshed ke^ out of range of my 9uns," The Federals were reinforced to some 4,000 ® by Bragg^s army began to move up from Glasgow on Sep em i September 16 the Union forces were outnumbered over j,-> s wr^ confronted by a real dilemma. Was it his duty m.^n? was he really outnumbered? si-on Llivar what the professional course of action was. - A'ivice. Enckner a supreme compliment by asking the ® ^ that he Taken to Buckner under a flag of truce, B„kner wanted to do what was correct - but just what handled, but protested that this wasn't x"uldn^t hav; as he later explained. "It appealed to me rvt deceived that man under those circunstances for anything," Voider, at his request, was escorted through much of the Ctonfederate army, and after considering the situation silently for several minutes he maoe up his mind. "Vfell, it seems to me General Buckner, that I ought to surrenc!sr<," But Buckner was by now thoroughly enmeshed in this most unusual affair. "Wait," he said, • .if you have information that would in duce you to think that the sacrifice of every man at this place v^ould give your army an advantage elsewhere, it is your duty to do ^.t,'' VJilder pondered agadn, then concluded that he possessed no such infor mation, "I believe I will surrender," he sai.d, and he did so on Sept ember 17, giving up just over 4,000 officers and men. Buell v;as by then at Cave City and moving to Munfordville, and Bragg tried to entice him into attacking the Confederates in a strong position there, Buell refused the bait, and Bragg then moved aside to Bardstoen to meet Kirby Smith, and Buell was left free to march into Louisville, After considerable miuieuvering, the battle of Ferryville was fought on October 8, Bragg was not defeated, but he then decided to leave the state which had disappointed him by fai.ling to rise to the Confederate cause. He retreated through Cumberland Gap, not^ through the gateway vjhich he had entered vrf.th such high expectations. Bragg wrote his wife in bitter terms: "VJhy then should I stay ivith my handful of brave southern men to fight for cowards. •?" In return, Kentuckians in the Confederate army probably hated Bragg more than any other Southern General. Morgan received permission to slash through the Bluegiass to dam age Buell's supply lines and then seek safety by returning through western Kentucky, He went b^l^ ^xington, reached Elizabethto~*-n by October 20, crossed the Green River at Morgantown two days later, and rested at Hopkinsville, the pursuit having ended. On Novciaber 1 he crossed into Tennessee. The main objective of Morgan's Christmas Raid in 1862 was the des truction of the L & N trestles north of Elizabethtown, James McCreary reported on the men*s reaction as they crossed into Kentucky on Chrxst- mas Eve^ "Cheer after cheer and shout after shout echoed for mxles to- vrard the rear of the column, breaking the stillness of the night. To night we are camped on the sacred soil of ols Kentucky and it fills my heart with joy.