Ormsby Mitchel

ID: 1679
This file appears in: Civil War Occupations
Ormsby Mitchel

General Mitchel led the forces that secured Bowling Green for the Union after the Confederacy abandoned it in February 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Civil War Occupations

By McKenzie Martin
Historical Marker #1024 in Warren County discusses the occupation of Bowling Green by Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War. Although Kentucky officially adopted a position of neutrality at the beginning of the conflict, the policy…