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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 2 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Holding Kentucky for the Union. (search)
that the Union men could not maintain themselves unless they were also furnished with arms. Mr. Lincoln placed at his disposal ten thousand muskets with means for their transportation. Toward the end of April he met in consultation at Frankfort a number of the leading Union men of the State and arranged for the distribution of the arms. When, shortly afterward, the organization of the Union Home Guards began, it was from this source they were armed. In Louisville, on the initiative of J. M. Delph, the Union mayor, a brigade of Major-General William Nelson. From a photograph. On the morning of Sept. 29th, 1862, General Nelson had an altercation with General Jefferson C. Davis in the Gait House, Louisville. General Davis shot General Nelson, who died almost instantly.-editors. two full regiments and a battery were organized, which were destined to play a very useful part. When the Legislature of which he was a member had finally adjourned, Lovell H. Rousseau went to Wash