The General at Thelma Stovall Park LbNA #36230 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Oct 21, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Munfordville |
| County: | Hart |
| State: | Kentucky |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | ky chameleon  |
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| Found by: | Not yet found! |
| Last found: | N/A |
| Status: | aa |
| Last edited: | Oct 21, 2007 |
This box is at Thelma Stovall Park in Munfordville. From I-65, take the Munfordville (exit 63) exit. Go thru town and take a right down into the park just prior to the bridge crossing the Green River.
Park in the parking lot and follow the path past the picnic table pavillions, with the green river on your right side. Remember, his name may be "Turner", but you should go straight. Go over one and under another. Stay to your right. Look to your right and take "caution". Think children's bible songs...Zaccheus climbed one of these. Look for a very large one bending over the river and reaching up to the bridge. Under the grass, up in the squirrel/fox hole, your general awaits.
This stamp is in a kid friendly park, but an adult may have to reach up for the general.
Sit on the fallen tree and log your stamp and let me tell you about the battle that took place where you are sitting and why Robert E. Lee is the stamp...
In the 1862 Confederate offensive into Kentucky, Gen. Braxton Bragg’s army left Chattanooga, Tennessee, in late August. Followed by Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell’s Union Army, Bragg approached Munfordville, a station on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and the location of the railroad bridge crossing Green River, in mid-September. Col. John T. Wilder commanded the Union garrison at Munfordville which consisted of three regiments with extensive fortifications. Wilder refused Brig. Gen. James R. Chalmers’s demand to surrender on the 14th. Union forces repulsed Chalmers’s attacks on the 14th, forcing the Rebels to conduct siege operations on the 15th and 16th. Late on the 16th, realizing that Buell’s forces were near and not wanting to kill or injure innocent civilians, the Confederates communicated still another demand for surrender. Wilder entered enemy lines under a flag of truce, and Confederate Maj. Gen. Simon B. Buckner escorted him to view all the Rebel troops and to convince him of the futility of resisting. Impressed, Wilder surrendered. The formal ceremony occurred the next day on the 17th. With the railroad and the bridge, Munfordville was an important transportation center, and the Confederate control affected the movement of Union supplies and men.
Park in the parking lot and follow the path past the picnic table pavillions, with the green river on your right side. Remember, his name may be "Turner", but you should go straight. Go over one and under another. Stay to your right. Look to your right and take "caution". Think children's bible songs...Zaccheus climbed one of these. Look for a very large one bending over the river and reaching up to the bridge. Under the grass, up in the squirrel/fox hole, your general awaits.
This stamp is in a kid friendly park, but an adult may have to reach up for the general.
Sit on the fallen tree and log your stamp and let me tell you about the battle that took place where you are sitting and why Robert E. Lee is the stamp...
In the 1862 Confederate offensive into Kentucky, Gen. Braxton Bragg’s army left Chattanooga, Tennessee, in late August. Followed by Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell’s Union Army, Bragg approached Munfordville, a station on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and the location of the railroad bridge crossing Green River, in mid-September. Col. John T. Wilder commanded the Union garrison at Munfordville which consisted of three regiments with extensive fortifications. Wilder refused Brig. Gen. James R. Chalmers’s demand to surrender on the 14th. Union forces repulsed Chalmers’s attacks on the 14th, forcing the Rebels to conduct siege operations on the 15th and 16th. Late on the 16th, realizing that Buell’s forces were near and not wanting to kill or injure innocent civilians, the Confederates communicated still another demand for surrender. Wilder entered enemy lines under a flag of truce, and Confederate Maj. Gen. Simon B. Buckner escorted him to view all the Rebel troops and to convince him of the futility of resisting. Impressed, Wilder surrendered. The formal ceremony occurred the next day on the 17th. With the railroad and the bridge, Munfordville was an important transportation center, and the Confederate control affected the movement of Union supplies and men.