men. Open spring through fall. (859)233-3290 Site offer insight into the daily life of plantation The Bodley-Bullock House , across the park slaves in antebellum Bluegrass. 225 Waveland from the Hopemont, Hunt-Morgan House at 200 Museum Lane. (859) 272-3611 Market Street, served as Cheapside , located on both Union and Bluegrass Note: Morgan and his raiders so the west side of Confederate headquarters fired the public’s imagination that schoolchildren Courthouse Square on at different times during on both sides recited poems about them. The Main Street, was the site of the war. The house is open Yankee rhyme was: “I’m sent to warn the neigh - both slave auctions and for tour by appointment; bors, he’s only a mile behind/He’s sweeping up impassioned abolitionist call (859) 252-8014. Union the horses, every horse that he can speeches. A small park find./Morgan, Morgan the Raider and Morgan’s troops used nearby terrible men/With bowie knives and pistols, are commemorates the site Transylvania University as galloping up the glen.” Southern children had a today. a hospital and camped in different perspective: “I want to be a cavalry - Gratz Park right in front of man, and with John Hunt Morgan ride/A Colt Monumental Reminders the Hunt-Morgan House. revolver in my belt, a saber by my side./I want a More than 500 According to a Bluegrass pair of epaulets to match my suit of gray,/The Confederate and 1,100 uniform my mother made and lettered C.S.A.” legend, Morgan once rode Union veterans are buried up the front steps of the in the park-like Lexington house, kissed his mother in the entry hall and gal - Cemetery , 833 West Main Street. They include loped out the back door--with Union soldiers in hot Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and John pursuit. C. Breckinridge. Breckinridge was vice president of the United States under James Buchanan, unsuc - The Lincolns Slept Here cessful presidential candidate against Abraham Abraham Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd, was born Lincoln in 1860, and Secretary of War of the to a prominent Lexington family in 1818. The Confederate States of America. (859) 255-5522. Georgian house in which she lived from 1832 until Lexington’s historic old Fayette County 1839 is open for tour, and includes Todd family fur - Courthouse, now named Courthouse Square, was nishings as well as Todd and Lincoln memorabilia. recently renovated. Two Lexington Civil War- After their marriage in 1842, the Lincolns visited related monuments that used to live on the Lexington several times. Mary Todd’s Lexington grounds, a statue of Breckinridge and the John heritage followed her to the nation’s capital: the Hunt Morgan statue, nowreside at the Lexington fact that some of her Kentucky relatives, including Cemetery. Lexington tradition holds that the several of her half-brothers, fought for the unveiling of the Morgan statue ion the courthouse Confederacy, aroused suspicion against Mrs. grounds 1911 caused quite a local stir because Lincoln in Washington, D.C. Morgan is shown astride a stallion instead of his The Mary Todd Lincoln House is at 578 West well-known mare Black Bess. Main Street. Open April through November. (859) 233-9999 NEARBY AND NOTEWORTHY Insights into Slavery Slavery was an important part of the antebellum The Bloodiest Battle economy in the Bluegrass, where slaves made up Perryville , Kentucky, still looks much the same about one half of the population. Essential to the as it did on October 8, 1862. On that hot day during operation of the area’s hemp plantations, slaves also one of Kentucky’s driest summers, both Union and were hired out by their owners for factory work and Confederate troops were parched and searching for other jobs. Lexington was a major slave market to water when they encountered each other at the Deep South from the 1830s to the 1850s. Doctor’s Fork Creek. Between 2:00 p.m. and 11:00 Original slave quarters at Waveland State Historic p.m., 4,211 Union soldiers and 3,396 Confederate soldiers were killed, wounded, captured or missing, Union Captain Thomas B. Brooks, never mounted giving Perryville the dubious distinction of being permanent artillery. 1250 Ford Road, Winchester. Kentucky’s largest and most deadly Civil War bat - (859) 744-0556. The Civil War Fort is 17 miles from tle. Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site (859- Lexington. Head out Richmond Road all the way to the 332-8631) includes the battleground, a museum and River. At 1924, turn right and go one mile. The colorful gift shop. The battle is reenacted each year during murals of the parking lot will be on your left. the first full weekend in October. Perryville is about 49 miles southwest of Lexington. Take either Capital Collections The Kentucky Military History Museum on East Main Street in Frankfort includes an extraor - Bluegrass Note: Not only were Abraham dinary collection of Civil War weapons, flags, uni - Lincoln and Confederate President Jefferson Davis both born in Kentucky (less than one forms and other artifacts. The building itself was a year and 100 miles apart), but both spent time Union cartridge factory and supply center. (502) in Lexington. Davis attended Transylvania 564-3265 University in 1823 and 1824. Lincoln visited Several other war-related sites are found in the city several times with his wife, Mary Todd, Kentucky’s capital city. The Kentucky State after their marriage in 1842. Capitol Rotunda on Capitol Avenue includes stat - ues of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Harrodsburg Rd. (US 68, through) or Bluegrass Federal reparation payments for war damage actu - Parkway to Exit 59, then US 127 to US 68. ally helped pay for the building. (502) 564-3449 The Old State Capitol , Broadway and Lewis Battle Plans and a Lion’s Hall streets in Frankfort, includes some Civil War mem - The Battle of Richmond in 1862, part of the orabilia. Another point of interest is the Frankfort Perryville campaign, was one of the Confederacy’s Cemetery , with its stately Confederate Memorial greatest tactical victories of the war. A self-guided and wall memorial to all heroic Kentucky war veter - tour brochure of the three engagements are avail - ans. 215 E. able from the Richmond Tourism and Main Street Main Street. Bluegrass Note : Although as a Department, 345 Lancaster Ave. (859) 626-8474. (502) 227- state Kentucky did not secede, Also of interest in the Richmond area is White 2403 63 counties did – setting up a Hall State Historic Site , home of one of Frankfort is Confederate government in Kentucky’s most outspoken emancipationists, about 27 miles Bowling Green in Western Cassius Marcellus Clay. Clay was a newspaper pub - west of Kentucky. A Bluegrass lisher, Minister to Russia and friend of Lincoln, and Lexington via Kentuckian, George W. Johnson of Scott County, was elected first was called “the lion of White Hall” for his fiery ora - I-64. For a Confederate Governor of tory. (859) 623-9178. Richmond is about 23 miles scenic alterna - Kentucky. Johnson is buried in south of Lexington via I-75. An alternate scenic route is tive take Old the Georgetown Cemetery. via Ky. 169 (Tates Creek Road), crossing the Kentucky Frankfort Pike River via the Valley View Ferry. and US 60. In Defense of the Kentucky River On the Road with the Raiders Towering walls of rock prevented easy crossing Col. John Hunt Morgan’s forays included 1862 of the Kentucky River, but Confederate soldiers and 1864 battles in and around the small town of still managed to cross and recross by ford or ferry, Cynthiana in Harrison County. In the 1862 raid creating havoc for Union Forces. In 1863, African the Confederates captured the town, but in 1864, American soldiers constructed fortifications high they were forced to retreat, for all practical purpos - above the ford and ferry at Boonesboro, entirely by es ending Morgan’s raids in the state. A self-guided hand. The Civil War Fort at Boonesboro , part of driving tour of the Cynthiana Battles is available a network of small defensive works proposed by from the Cynthiana/ Harrison County Chamber of Commerce, 201 S. Main Street. Old Fort Harrod State Park in (859) 234-5236. Bluegrass Note: More than Harrodsburg includes a museum Georgetown is about 12 miles north of 30,000 men left their Kentucky with Civil War artifacts and the homes to fight for the Lexington via I-75 or US 25. For a Confederacy. Twice that many cabin in which Lincoln’s parents scenic drive combining the Morgan sites, Kentuckians fought for the North, were married. (859) 734-3314. begin at the Scott County Courthouse on including 20,000 African- Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill is 25 Georgetown’s Main Street and head east Americans, the second-highest miles southwest of Lexington via US on US 460 to Newtown. Take number among all the states. 68. Continue on US 68 a few miles to Newtown-Leesburg Pike to US 62 (at Harrodsburg. the unmarked fork, go left), and follow US 62 into Cynthiana. Beyond the Bluegrass Lexington can also be an ideal base from which Enlistment and Emancipation to explore some of Kentucky’s other Civil War When the Union began to draft African- sites. Americans into the army in 1864, Camp Nelson , in The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Jessamine County, was the state’s most important Historic Site features 116 acres of the farm where recruiting station. Thousands of African-Americans Lincoln was born and a granite memorial shrine and their families traveled to the camp for enlist - enclosing a cabin symbolic of the one in which ment-– and freedom.