Broadside

ID: 1715
This file appears in: Fort Anderson
Broadside

As this broadside notes, Gen. Robert Anderson, Fort Anderson's namesake, was placed in command of Union troops in Kentucky shortly after the state declared its allegiance to the Union. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Fort Anderson

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #828 in Paducah notes the location of Fort Anderson, a Union earthen fortification named for native Kentuckian Robert Anderson, the "Hero of Fort Sumter." When Confederate forces invaded western Kentucky in early…