Louisville
Depot, Louisville, Kentucky.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Depot
- Where
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Years
- 1861-1865
LOUISVILLE STAGING AREA
Staging area for Union supplies and troops heading south on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Contractors supplied the army with 200 head of cattle a day. In 1863 the Eastern troops sent to relieve Chattanooga crossed the Ohio River here to board Louisville and Nashville trains.
Then
Louisville was a staging area for Union supplies and troops heading south. Contractors supplied the army with 200 head of cattle a day, and trains ran south on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. In 1863 the Eastern troops sent to relieve Chattanooga crossed the Ohio River to Louisville and boarded Louisville and Nashville trains there.
Now
Lines owned by smaller railroads and CSX run through Louisville today.
Served by
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