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Intangible: Robert E. Lee Day

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Intangible: Robert E. Lee State Holiday

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Intangible: Stonewall Jackson Memorial Fund

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Intangible: The Andersonville Trial

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Meeting: A state law is passed in Kentucky prohibiting the immigration of free African Americans to the state, with the aim of limiting the size of the Black population and the exposure of the enslaved to their free counterparts.

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Meeting: Jessamine County Pro-Slavery Lodge, No. 23, passes a resolution against the discussion of “anti-slavery doctrines, either publicly or privately.”

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Meeting: Nicholasville officials establish patrols to prevent “too free an intercourse of the negroes with each other.”

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Meeting: Pro-Unionist state legislature elected in Kentucky.

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Meeting: With the support of his 9th Army Corps of 18,000 troops, General Burnside declares martial law in Nicholasville. He prohibits secessionists from voting and posts troops at polling places. These actions follow a period of heightened federal interventions in civilian life as officials seek to suppress Confederate sympathies and treasonous acts.

View the items in Meeting: With the support of his 9th Army Corps of 18,000 troops, General Burnside declares martial law in Nicholasville. He prohibits secessionists from voting and posts troops at polling places. These actions follow a period of heightened federal interventions in civilian life as officials seek to suppress Confederate sympathies and treasonous acts.

Museum: Caldwell County Confederate Monument, Lenoir

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