Portal:Kentucky/Did you know.../2

...that eighteen fallen Confederate soldiers were moved when the Confederate Monument in Georgetown was dedicated?
...that over 10,000 people attended the 1876 dedication of the Confederate Monument in Bowling Green, Kentucky?
...that the Hurricane Creek mine disaster, which killed 38 men in 1970, occurred exactly a year after passage of the first federal legislation regulating mine safety?
...that the Commonwealth of Kentucky had a Confederate shadow government during the U.S. Civil War, although it never officially seceded from the Union?
...that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?
...that Fancy Farm, Kentucky is recognized as the home of the world's largest picnic?
...that Confederate brigadier general James Morrison Hawes studied advanced military tactics at the Cavalry School of Saumur, France?