Kentucky was a border state during the Civil War and the site of many intense battles. As many as 40,000 Kentuckians served in the Confederacy and about 100,000 were in the Union Army, according ...

By Chris Cameron A Civil War-era treasure of more than ... several coins minted in 1862 and 1863, when Kentucky was the site of fierce battles between the United States and the Confederacy.

Still, Civil War battles spread across a total of 23 states and territories, including Washington, D.C. Using historical data from the National Archives Catalog, 24/7 Wall St. identified the ...

Missouri was a border state during the American Civil War, and Missourians fought on both sides of the war. Battles raged across ... Leonidas Polk's rebel troops in Kentucky from reinforcing ...

A man in Kentucky hit the jackpot after he discovered over 700 coins from the Civil War era on his rural farm. The findings have been nicknamed the “Great Kentucky Hoard” and include a group ...

Kentucky, a border state during the Civil War, saw fierce internal division between Union and Confederate sympathizers. Skirmishes, raids, and troops on the march were common, and locals often ...

Join us as we walk Kentucky’s historic grounds, metal detectors in hand, searching for lost remnants of the Civil War. From buttons to bullets, each discovery connects us to the soldiers who ...

SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky. A snow-covered stretch of ...

Originally a supply depot for Union forces in Kentucky, Camp Nelson became the site where 10,000 Black soldiers trained in the Civil War. But in the war’s last months, these soldiers were ...

And though the fighting was concentrated in areas around the border between Southern slave states and free Northern states, Civil War battles spread across a total of 23 states and territories ...