One topic I’ve discussed over the years on this page has involved the exploration of the lives and service of Civil War ancestors I discovered, and I even have created a separate page to list them and provide some basic information about th…
Part OneJust after Chancellor Livingston had his freedom affirmed, the Civil War started and men on both sides began learning how to kill and be killed. Bloodshed gradually increased as did the distrust of rumored “disloyal” citizens in bor…
This was supposed to be a short, quick story about Union authorities arresting a southern sympathizer in Campbell County, not an unusual tale in the Commonwealth, but a topic I have not yet explored much during my research or on this site.I…
Horace Harmon Lurton did not spend many years in Campbell County, but he was a county native and a Civil War soldier who rose to national prominence in the decades after the war ended. He was born in Newport on February 26, 1844, the son of…
The concept of boys fighting in the Civil War is just one of the numerous topics on the war. One local instance of this was the story of Isaac George Thacker. Isaac was born on May 2, 1849, in Olive Hill, Carter County, Kentucky, the son of…
One of the several military units that recruited men from Campbell County was the 8th Kentucky Cavalry, a regiment mostly formed in the western region of the state but that included a company enlisted in Newport by Captain John Arthur.These…
Many Campbell County families watched their fathers, sons, and brothers march off to fight in the Civil War, where they risked their lives for their understanding of "the cause." Several families saw more than one member enlist, but none qu…
Here is my third and final post on local reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, as the Cincinnati Enquirer critiques the opinions of two newspapers with which it did not agree. This is from May 25, 1854.THE GROANS OF THE WOUNDED - THE HOWLS O…
I have shown how a northern Kentucky newspaper reacted to this bill, and here is the reaction from a journal in a free state. On May 24, 1854, the Cincinnati Enquirer printed these comments. Glorious News from Washington - Passage of the Ne…
I’m going to take a brief break from my soldier profiles to share three local articles I found about the Kansas-Nebraska Act.This act was among the most famous (or infamous) events of the 1850s. Given its effects on the potential expansion
Joseph Robinson was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in the first half of the nineteenth century, but exactly when is not clear. In an era long before birth certificates, military paperwork shows he was age 40 in 1864, but an 1892 death re…