Tour - On to Richmond! (KY)
Fri, Jun 26
|Battle of Richmond Visitor Center
A weekend tour of Edmund Kirby Smith's Invasion of Kentucky from Big Hill to the Battle of Richmond!
Time & Location
Jun 26, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT – Jun 28, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT
Battle of Richmond Visitor Center, 101 Battlefield Memorial Hwy, Richmond, KY 40475, USA
Guests
About the event
The tentative plan:
June 26 (Friday)
5:00 pm – Depart from the the Battle of Richmond Visitor's Center. Arrive early if you want to tour the Visitors Center as we will leave around 5:00 pm. We will carpool south to the Jackson County Welcome Center where we will cover the fighting at Big Hill & set the stage for the campaign. Then it is on to the Cowbell Creek fight, followed by the fighting at Joe Lick Knob. We will wrap up with the skirmish at Rogersville at the Visitors Center.
June 27 (Saturday)
8:30 am - Meet at the Battlefield Park before carpooling to Hays Fork Church to set the stage for the early morning fighting of August 30th. We will return to Battlefield Park where we will cover Churchill’s flank attack and Federal movements in the area. Then we will walk to Mount Zion Church, near the site of…