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Western Kentucky University

1862

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Box 19, Folder 7 Warren County Marriage Records, C-W, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 1861

Box 19, Folder 7 Warren County Marriage Records, C-W, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Warren County, Kentucky - Marriage Records

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Box 28, Folder 22 Warren County Marriage Records, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 1861

Box 28, Folder 22 Warren County Marriage Records, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Warren County, Kentucky - Marriage Records

No abstract provided.


Box 31, Folder 7 Warren County Marriage Records, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 1861

Box 31, Folder 7 Warren County Marriage Records, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Warren County, Kentucky - Marriage Records

No abstract provided.


The Great Panic: Being Incidents Connected With Two Weeks Of The War In Tennessee, 1862, Kentucky Library Research Collections Dec 1861

The Great Panic: Being Incidents Connected With Two Weeks Of The War In Tennessee, 1862, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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Account of the aftermath of the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee, the first significant Union victory of the Civil War. The abandonment of Nashville by Confederate authorities, and the opening of the Cumberland River as a pathway to invasion of the South. The booklet opens with dispatches received in Nashville from Fort Donelson on February 12, 1862 and the ensuing "great panic" as soldiers fled from Nashville. This episode brought to prominence Ulysses S. Grant. He wrote, "Sir: Yours of this date, proposing an armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. …