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

