Wayne | March 17, 2010
I have a muster record for Private Harry Francis claiming: JAN_FEB_64 absent, under arrest 2/5/64, reduced to ranks from 1st Corp I am puzzled as to what else may have happened on February 5th, 1864. If anyone has any clues, please drop me a comment here. While I wait, I’ll try to see if anyone […]
Wayne | March 16, 2010
Many regiments can point to a particular day in their lives where the “Fun” began. Whether that was an important battle, the day their Colonel was killed/promoted/both, or the day they got their Regimental Colors…they all have “that day”. The 7th Kentucky is no different and I would say that this day isn’t the day […]
Wayne | March 5, 2010
I just found something on this and thought I should move my other references, scattered across several blogs, to this space. So…here we go. 😉 During the first week of the 1862 Federal retreat from Cumberland Gap there was an incident at Manchester that has been shrouded in some mystery until today. We have known […]