Additional Information 1875-1924

Denhardt Broadside In 1917 Major Henry H. Denhardt called for a World War I recruitment rally to be held at the Warren County fairgrounds in Bowling Green. Accompanied by a band and soldiers, Denhardt was to explain "the advantages of their enlisting now." Denhardt went on to serve as Lt. Governor and as Adjutant General.

A Distressing Accident (1895) An Accidental Explosion Kills Five From Battery A, 1st Regiment (Louisville Legion) of the Kentucky State Guard 1895. A cannon crew dispatched from the downtown Louisville armory to Phoenix Hill Park to fire salute at sunrise reached 4th and Broadway at 5:30 a.m. and an explosion occurred. Sixty-six pounds of of black powder mysteriously ignited killing five men and two horses.

What in Sam Hill? ...started the Hatfield and McCoy Feud? Read the report of Sam Hill, Adjutant General of Kentucky 1887 - 1891, who was ordered by the Governor to investiage the border warfare between the Hatfields, of Logan County, of West Virginia, and the McCoys, of Pike County.

Searching for Poncho: The Kentucky National Guard Mexican Border Service 1916 – 1917 by John M. Trowbridge, Command Historian Kentucky National Guard

Detailed Biography of Adjutant General James Tandy Ellis