Recently visited it on a great bourbon, horses, and history tour of the Bluegrass country. Civil War nuts will know this is where the Union army under Don Carlos Buell stumbled into part of Braxton Bragg’s invading Confederate Army in central Kentucky in October 1862. I’ll post more on the battle later ITT. But suffice to say this has to be one of the most pristine Civil War battlefields still remaining — rolling countryside (much hillier than I imagined) untainted by any crass commercial encroachment like you see around the Gettysburg and Bull Run/Manassas battlefields.
Interesting trivia: the fathers of future American generals Douglas MacArthur and Simon Bolivar Buckner — one of the highest ranking generals killed by enemy fire (Okinawa) in World War II — fought on opposite sides here. I believe it was the elder MacArthur‘s first combat experience.
Interesting trivia: the fathers of future American generals Douglas MacArthur and Simon Bolivar Buckner — one of the highest ranking generals killed by enemy fire (Okinawa) in World War II — fought on opposite sides here. I believe it was the elder MacArthur‘s first combat experience.
