Berry Craig's History Bits

'Traitors... are taken to Paducah only to be discharged'

Aug 22, 2012 at 05:00 pm by admin

(August 24, 2012) - On this date in 1862, Lieutenant Colonel John Olney was on the way out as Yankee commander in Paducah.      Local Unionists had been l.... Read More

The burly "Bull" takes command

Aug 15, 2012 at 02:33 pm by admin

(August 17, 2012) - On this date in 1862, an ex-navy lieutenant turned army major general was the new Union commander in Kentucky.      Mason County nativ.... Read More

‘Votes these times serve as a kind of Military Census’

Aug 02, 2012 at 12:44 pm by admin

(August 4, 2012)  - On this date in 1862, Circuit Judge Rufus King Williams of Mayfield was on the verge of election to the Court of Appeals, then Kentucky’s highes.... Read More

Rebel Preachers Jailed - July 27, 1862

Jul 25, 2012 at 02:45 pm by admin

     (July 27, 2012) - On this date in 1862, a pair of Presbyterian preachers was lodged in the Newport Barracks on charges of disloyalty.   &nb.... Read More

Future congressman fires up local Union men in Mayfield

Jun 20, 2012 at 03:24 pm by admin

   (Mayfield, KY - June 21, 2012) - On this date in 1862, Graves County Unionists were rallying behind their candidates for the August state elections.   .... Read More

Yankee arrest of circuit judge prompts protest from the governor

Jun 01, 2012 at 04:24 pm by admin

  (June 1, 2012) -  On this date in 1862, Gov. Beriah Magoffin was waiting to hear from Sen. John J. Crittenden over the arrest of Circuit Judge Wiley P. Fowler.... Read More

Was Humphrey Marshall the ‘resigningest’ Rebel general?

May 15, 2012 at 03:44 pm by admin

      Rebel Gen. Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky was a legend in his own mind.     On this date in 1862, he figured his recent victory over.... Read More

Civil War duel - one of the last "affairs of honor" in the Bluegrass State

May 08, 2012 at 03:32 pm by admin

   (Mayfield, KY, May 8, 2012) -  On this date in 1862, Mason County Southern sympathizers were mourning the death of former mayor William T. Casto, who died in.... Read More

Disease becomes greatest Civil War foe

Apr 17, 2012 at 03:27 pm by admin

On this date in 1862, the 7th Kentucky Confederate Infantry was in Corinth, Miss., out of range of Yankee bullets.      But the Jackson Purchase regiment.... Read More

Breckinridge got booted; Powell persevered

Mar 21, 2012 at 11:03 am by admin

(Week of March 23, 2012) - On this date in 1862, Kentucky Sen. Lazarus W. Powell of Henderson was fighting for his political life.      Shortly after the.... Read More

A Civil War ‘Get out of Jail Free Card’

Mar 13, 2012 at 12:33 pm by admin

     On this date in 1862, the Kentucky General Assembly was continuing its crackdown on Confederate sympathizers in the Bluegrass State and becoming more.... Read More

'The most significant event for Columbus park since it opened’

Feb 29, 2012 at 03:44 pm by admin

 On this date in 1862, the Confederate army was retreating southward from Columbus. They may have left behind a Civil War relic hunter’s dream that ended up bu.... Read More

Rebel Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner surrendered Fort Donelson but not his Kentucky hospitality.

Feb 22, 2012 at 04:56 pm by admin

 On Feb. 16, 1862, he ran up the white flag over the Cumberland River bastion near Dover, Tenn. Afterwards, the Hart County, Ky., native asked Yankee Gen. Lew Wallace to.... Read More

Purchase lawmakers get the heave- ho out of KY General Assembly

Feb 22, 2012 at 04:41 pm by admin

     On this date in 1862, the Jackson Purchase was virtually unrepresented in the General Assembly.      All of the region’s Ho.... Read More

The Coming Clash

Feb 09, 2012 at 05:20 pm by admin

(Mayfield KY, Feb. 10, 2012) -  On this date in 1862, large numbers of Kentucky troops were about to clash for the first time in a major Civil War battle.   &n.... Read More