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01/24/1860 |
Entire legislatures of Kentucky and Tennessee gather in Louisville, Kentucky |
Business/Industry |
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01/25/1860 |
Entire legislatures of Kentucky and Tennessee leave Louisville, Kentucky for Cincinatti, Ohio |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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12/31/1856 |
Fire destroys the Medical School Building at the University of Louisville |
Crime/Disasters |
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06/06/1865 |
In a Louisville, Kentucky prison, notorious Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill dies of wounds |
Personal |
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02/05/1866 |
In Cincinnati, the United States Mail Steamboat Company replaces the tubular boilers on its new boat |
Business/Industry |
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10/23/1860 |
In Kentucky, "fire-eater" William Lowndes Yancey stumps for Breckinridge |
Campaigns/Elections |
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09/18/1860 |
In Kentucky, Louisville and Nashville Railroad open their latest section between Louisville and Clarksville, Tennessee |
Business/Industry |
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05/10/1865 |
In Kentucky, notorious Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill is wounded and captured |
Battles/Soldiers |
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05/15/1863 |
In Kentucky, Union troops capture Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner's furniture |
Personal |
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04/06/1861 |
In Kentucky, Unionist John M. Delph easily wins election as the mayor of Louisville |
Campaigns/Elections |
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11/26/1860 |
In Louisville, Kentucky, a large Unionist meeting resolves to support the Constitution and seek compromise |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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02/22/1866 |
In Louisville, Kentucky, a mass meeting requests the withdrawal of the Freedmen's Bureau from the state. |
Campaigns/Elections |
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03/15/1865 |
In Louisville, Kentucky, captured Confederate guerrilla M. Jerome Clarke, rumored to be "Sue Mundy," is executed for murder |
Battles/Soldiers |
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05/15/1863 |
In Tennessee, Julius Mileke, Union Army deserter, is executed at a public crossroads outside Nashville |
Crime/Disasters |
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05/06/1859 |
Joseph Brown Smith, the first fully blind American college graduate, dies in Louisville, Kentucky |
Personal |
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11/18/1860 |
Louisville to New Orleans steamboat burns near Uniontown, Kentucky and eight die |
Crime/Disasters |
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08/21/1865 |
On the Mississippi, a steamboat explosion kills up to ten people, including Ohio infantrymen heading home |
Crime/Disasters |
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09/18/1861 |
Robert Anderson, hero of Fort Sumter, takes command of Kentucky's military forces |
Battles/Soldiers |
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04/25/1859 |
Seven foot nine inch tall James D. Porter, "the Kentucky Giant," dies in his sleep, aged 49 |
Personal |
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09/19/1860 |
T.D. Rice, black-face minstrel originator of the "Jim Crow" character, dies in New York City |
Education/Culture |
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01/27/1860 to 01/28/1860 |
The legislatures of Kentucky and Tennessee are hosted lavishly in Cincinatti, Ohio |
Business/Industry |
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01/26/1860 |
The legislatures of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee meet in convention in Columbus, Ohio |
Business/Industry |
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09/18/1861 |
U.S. Post Office excludes "disloyal" Louisville newspaper from its mails and post offices |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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10/08/1861 |
William Tecumseh Sherman takes command of the Department of the Cumberland, replacing Robert Anderson |
Battles/Soldiers |
