Berry Craig's History Bits

McCracken Unionists condemn abolitionists and secessionists

Mar 05, 2013 at 01:26 pm by admin

       On this date in 1863, McCracken County Union supporters were in high spirits following their “large and respectable meeting” in Pa.... Read More

Fallout continues over the Emancipation Proclamation

Jan 29, 2013 at 04:17 pm by admin

(Friday, February 1, 2013) -  On this date in 1863, Kentucky slave owners were scrambling to tell their slaves that President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Procl.... Read More

Kentucky: pro-Union, pro-slavery and anti-Lincoln

Jan 15, 2013 at 03:14 pm by admin

(Friday, January 11, 2013) - On this date in 1863, Kentucky’s relationship with the Lincoln administration had gone from bad to worse.     The Emancipati.... Read More

Kentucky soldiers rest for eternity next to famous memorial

Jan 02, 2013 at 03:41 pm by admin

         January 4, 2013 - On this date in 1863, Union army burial parties were combing the Stones River battlefield for corpses.  &n.... Read More

What’s a lawyer without law books?

Dec 13, 2012 at 04:01 pm by admin

       (December 14, 2012) - On this date in 1862, Humphrey Marshall was a lawyer without a law library.      A federal district.... Read More

Kentuckians hear Lincoln's appeal for emancipation

Nov 28, 2012 at 08:30 am by admin

   (November 22, 2012) -   On this date in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln was hoping a group of Kentucky citizens he saw in Washington was back home.... Read More

Exiled Rebel editor founded the Courier-Journal

Nov 27, 2012 at 05:19 pm by admin

(November 27, 2012) -  On this date in 1862, John H. Harney, owner-editor of the pro-Union Louisville Daily Democrat, might have been bragging to friends about a printing.... Read More

Jefferson Davis gets away with murder

Nov 13, 2012 at 09:18 am by admin

(November 2, 2012) - On this date in 1862, Union Gen. Jefferson C. Davis of Indiana was expecting to be tried for killing Gen. William O "Bull" Nelson of Kentucky. A Jefferson.... Read More

Perryville loser nothing to "Bragg" about

Oct 24, 2012 at 04:19 pm by admin

(October 19, 2012) -  On this date in 1862, Rebel Gen. Braxton Bragg was in full spin doctor mode, claiming his retreat from Kentucky was a good move.    .... Read More

His eyes were shut ‘with a tightness preternatural’

Oct 11, 2012 at 03:12 pm by admin

  His eyes were shut ‘with a tightness preternatural’ By BERRY CRAIG (October 12, 2012)- On this date in 1862, members of Congress were mourning the loss o.... Read More

Boozy bullet blasting Bluecoats jailed in Falls City

Oct 05, 2012 at 04:32 pm by admin

    (October 5, 2012) -  On this date in 1862, as many as a dozen Union soldiers were locked up in Louisville and accused of public drunkenness and shooti.... Read More

“I have been brutally murdered.”

Sep 27, 2012 at 08:39 am by admin

   (September 28, 2012) -  On this date in 1862, bad blood was brewing between two Civil War generals that would end in fatal gunplay.     .... Read More

Bracken Unionists banish, threaten anti-slavery minister

Sep 13, 2012 at 10:59 am by admin

    (September 14, 2012) - On this date in 1862, local Unionists drove the Rev. James G. Fee from his native Bracken County “for preaching aboli.... Read More

Political deal nets Kentucky a new governor

Sep 06, 2012 at 02:48 pm by admin

     (September 7, 2012) - On this date in 1862, Beriah Magoffin was settling back into private life in Harrodsburg, his hometown, having finally give.... Read More

Rebels seize Frankfort, Lexington, threaten Louisville, Cincinnati

Sep 06, 2012 at 02:42 pm by admin

Rebels seize Frankfort, Lexington, threaten Louisville, Cincinnati By BERRY CRAIG   (August 31, 2012) -  On this date in 1862, the Confederate flag flutt.... Read More