An American Civil War monument on the Jessamine County Courthouse lawn in Kentucky honors those who fought in the Confederacy. But the statue wears a Union soldier’s hat.

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous Confederate States of America, and so far were able to fight the Union ...

On Jan. 25, 1865, a company of Black Union soldiers was ambushed by Confederate guerrillas in Simpsonville, Kentucky. Kentucky was technically neutral during the Civil War, but it was also home to ...