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The Way To Wildcat:
The 7th Kentucky Gets On-the-Job Training
Sept. 22 1861 -- The 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (USA) under Colonel Theophilus Garrard arrives for training.
Sept. 23, 1861 -- Scouts report Confederate cavalry within six miles of London, Kentucky.
Sept. 24, 1861 -- With on day of training, the 7th Kentucky is sent south to Camp Wildcat to protect a ford across the Rockcastle River.
Colonel Garrard's 975 "soldiers" made camp on a ridge overlooking the road from London and began cutting trees to block the road.
Camp Wildcat's remote location inspired some... "The scenery is all that the most enthusiastic admirer of nature could wish."
And depressed others... "This is one of the most desolate places we ever saw." |