Cumberland Gap
This file appears in: On Confederate Routes
After retreating from the Battle of Perryville Bragg's army made their way through the Cumberland Gap and back into Tennessee. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.
This file appears in: On Confederate Routes
On Confederate Routes
Historical Marker #685 in Crab Orchard remembers the various Confederate forces that used a section of the old Wilderness Road while operating in Kentucky during the Civil War.
The most famous road in early Kentucky was what became known as the…