Confederate Governor Richard Hawes
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Richard Hawes was appointed governor of Confederate Kentucky after the death of Governor Johnson at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.
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Confederate State Capital
Historical Marker #67 in Warren County discusses Bowling Green's role as the state capital of Kentucky's Provisional Confederate government.
Few states were as bitterly divided as Kentucky during the Civil War. The commonwealth's…