Bowling Green depot
Depot, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Depot
- Where
- Bowling Green, Kentucky
- Years
- 1861-1862
- Today
- Museum
BOWLING GREEN DEPOT
About 1,300 Confederates under Simon Bolivar Buckner occupied Bowling Green on September 18, 1861, and fortified the hills to hold its river and railroad. The Riverview basement served as a munitions magazine. The Confederates withdrew in February 1862, destroying the Barren River bridges and the railroad depot.
Then
About 1,300 Confederates under Simon Bolivar Buckner occupied Bowling Green on September 18, 1861, and fortified the hills to hold its river and railroad. It became the capital of Confederate Kentucky in November 1861, and the basement of the unfinished Riverview house served as a munitions magazine that winter.
On news of the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson, the Confederates began to withdraw on February 14, 1862, destroying the Barren River bridges, the railroad depot and other buildings.
Now
Museum
Riverview at Hobson Grove, completed in 1872, is a house museum in Hobson Grove Park.
Lines owned by CSX run through Bowling Green today.
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