We have been able to reschedule our Winter Meeting for February 26, 2011 in the Wrather Museum auditorium.  Meeting will start at 10:30 a.m. Dr. Mulligan has graciously rearranged his schedule so that he can be our speaker!  As a reminder, his topic will be “The Civil War in Western Kentucky and West Tennessee, 1860-1863”.   Dr. Mulligan will have copies for sale of his book “Badger Boy in Blue: The Civil War Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke”. Won’t you make your plans now to be with us?

The historical marker, on the grounds of the Graves County Courthouse,  reads: “In May, 1861, delegates of seven Kentucky and twenty Tennessee westernmost counties, the Jackson Purchase, met in Mayfield.  Belief in Southern cause, dissatisfaction with Kentucky adherence to Union and Tennessee delay joining South caused convention vote to secede and form a Confederate State.  With Tennessee’s vote to secede, June 8, 1861, proposal abandoned.” A journalist for the Louisville Journal was present at this meeting and his eye-witness account sent back to his editor revealed that the attendees included from Kentucky:  Henry C. Burnett, then First District of Kentucky…