HARRIET BEECHER STOWE MUSEUMS
WASHINGTON, KY
The Harriet Beecher Stowe House Museum in Washington, Kentucky is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Located in the historic district of Washington, the museum is situated in a two-story brick home built in 1867. The house was the birthplace of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote the famous novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
The museum features a variety of exhibits and artifacts related to Stowe’s life and work. Visitors can explore the home, which includes Stowe’s original furniture, paintings, and personal belongings. The museum also hosts a variety of special events and educational programs, such as lectures and writing workshops.
The museum’s grounds include a garden area, which is open to the public, as well as a variety of outdoor activities, such as a scavenger hunt and a nature walk. The museum also offers guided tours and has a gift shop for visitors to purchase souvenirs and memorabilia. The Harriet Beecher Stowe House Museum is a great way to learn more about the life and work of this remarkable woman, and to appreciate the impact her work had on the history of the United States.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE MUSEUMS is a Uncategorized or General Museum in WASHINGTON KY. US MID #8402100429
The museum is classed as GMU (Uncategorized or General Museums). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia).
![A reenactor explains to the crowd how 125 Augusta, Kentucky men battled against seven companies of raiding Confederate soldiers This reenactor explains to the small crowd in words close to what the city website says about the skirmish. This is <a href="https://www.augustaky.com/history-of-augusta" rel="noreferrer nofollow"> what the website</a> says:
&quot;On September 27, 1862, Colonel Basil Duke led seven companies of Confederate soldiers to Cemetery Hill, above the small town of Augusta. With two pieces of artillery and 350 of [Confederate general John Hunt Morgan] Morgan's finest Raiders, Duke hoped to disperse the Union militia of 125 men stationed there (led by Colonel Joshua T. Bradford and known as the &quot;Home Guard&quot;) before crossing the Ohio River and moving on Cincinnati.
…Duke's horsemen rode into town, expecting a quick surrender. Instead, the residents of Augusta met the Rebs with a hail of gunfire, mounting a stiff defense that ultimately resulted in hand-to-hand fighting. Duke later reported, 'The hand-to-hand fighting in the houses...was the fiercest and hottest I ever saw. I witnessed in some of them the floors piled with corpses and blood trickling down the stairways.'
About fifteen Union soldiers were killed or wounded in the battle. Duke's losses were considerably more severe, with seventy-five to one hundred of his soldiers wounded or killed. Although the Confederates eventually forced the militia to surrender, the battle caused Duke to abandon his plans of taking the war onto Northern soil.&quot;](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53262938056_f5ac8d29e6_b.jpg)
![Kentuckian Civil War hero U.S. Brigadier Major General William 'Bull' Nelson of Maysville needs a statue in Kentucky During the Civil War, only William &quot;Bull&quot; Nelson was both a Brigadier Major General of the U.S. Army and a commander in the U.S. Navy. Maysville, Kentucky native Nelson was a graduate of the first class of the brand-new U.S. Naval Academy.
Nelson has an interesting story for the rough political times of America in the mid-nineteenth century. The son of a Maysville physician rose in the Navy’s ranks in his unwavering support of the United States and Kentucky. His town was an Underground Railroad stop. He had no slaves. During his Navy stint, Nelson joined the USS Niagara in its 1858 mission of returning captured slaves to their freedom in Monrovia, Liberia.
On only the second day after Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, Nelson showed up in the new President’s office at the White House to offer his services in defending the United States. &quot;As a Kentuckian, Nelson could have sympathized with the Confederates but, like his state, he remained loyal to the United States of America.&quot;*
The Kentuckian was transferred from the Navy to the Army. The U.S. Army was in great need of his leadership at the outset of the war. William Nelson successfully recruited thousands of Kentuckians to the U.S. cause in the Civil War–an activity that his Confederate counterparts floundered at. In one of his Kentucky recruitment efforts, this one just south of his hometown of Maysville, recruits were led by him to defend their native Kentucky and defeat a Confederacy invasion at West Liberty. At the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Confederates abandoned Piketown in Eastern Kentucky to U.S. troops, who were also under General Nelson's command, led on the ground by Colonel Joshua Still.
Nelson did well for his state. There was yet more to come.
&quot;Nelson commanded the Fourth Division and that unit became the first to enter Nashville [to occupy the Confederate state capitol for the United States just months after its lawmakers declared secession] on February 25, 1862.&quot;* In his book, Grant, author Ron Chernow observed: &quot;Even as General Buell approached Nashville from the north, Grant sent William “Bull” Nelson—a brash six-foot-five general weighing three hundred pounds—to beat him there, and Buell was bitter at being denied the glory of conquering the first Confederate capital.&quot;**
Nelson led troops at the Battle of Shiloh as part of the left flank of Ulysses S. Grant’s successful second-day counteroffensive that won the battle. Other noticeable U.S. generals who fought against that Confederate surprise attack were William Sherman and W.H.L. Wallace (who was shot in the head during the battle and died). Although Shiloh was the bloodiest battle in the Western Hemisphere, Grant greatly valued that battle experience. That tough win for U.S. troops would mold great commanders and tough soldiers. As the war went on, Grant would come to depend and lean more and more on the names at Shiloh.
&quot;Shiloh was one of the most important battles in the war,&quot; said Ulysses S. Grant in an interview with reporter John Russell Young in his book of 1879, Conversations with General Grant. &quot;It was there that our Western soldiers first met the enemy in a pitched battle. From that day they never feared to fight the enemy, and never went into action without feeling sure they would win.&quot;
After participating in the Siege of Corinth, it was Bull Nelson who was one of the earliest to enter and occupy that city for the federal government.
I think it safe to say that even if Nelson had a battle loss from time to time during the entire Civil War, Nelson would still have had a bright military career ahead of him under Grant, who had a history of appreciating, strategizing, and working closely with the Navy. Grant thought of water highways and confluences as critical conduits of supply lines and offensive maneuvers that won wars. He knew Nelson was the only general who had practical army and navy commanding experience.
Bull Nelson’s rise came to a premature end in the Fall of 1862, when he was killed in Louisville, Kentucky by a bullet from a sick and irate Jeff Davis (no, not the Confederate President but the Union general from Indiana), who had his honor impugned when Nelson angrily blamed Davis for the Union loss at Richmond, Kentucky, which cost many lives of Nelson's new Kentuckian volunteers.
As time has passed, Brigadier Major General &quot;Bull&quot; Nelson has been greatly underappreciated in his home state for his significant accomplishments for the United States and Kentucky during the early part of the Civil War.
Nelson was somewhat like Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. Had he heard my comparison, Bull Nelson would probably argue that he was much better. The Confederate hero, Stonewall Jackson, was killed early in the war by friendly fire from his own troops. Yet, in his honor, Pro-Union West Virginia**, which declared its independence from the Confederacy to form its own state apart from Virginia, erected a statue on its state capitol grounds of Clarksburg-born Stonewall Jackson, a man who fought against the state. In contrast, Kentucky and the United States have their hero in William “Bull” Nelson, who fought for them, not against them. But unlike Stonewall, Bull Nelson, who had Shiloh, Nashville, and Corinth under his belt, has no statue, only a tombstone.
Before his death, Nelson’s star had already gone far in the United States and Kentucky. Had he lived, Nelson would likely have gone much further.
Kentuckians and Maysvillians, you should build a statue in honor of your native son. He did you proud.
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*Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Wikipedia</a>
**Chernow, Ron. Grant (p. 188). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
***Unlike pro-United States Kentucky, whose men overwhelmingly joined U.S. forces (thank you General Nelson), West Virginia purportedly had a roughly equal body of men on each side, ~20,000 joined the Confederate Army and ~20,000 joined the U.S. Army. See Snell, Mark A., West Virginia and the Civil War, History Press, 2011, pg. 28, ISBN 978-1-59629-888-0](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53228158089_5ac60d7920_b.jpg)
Contact HARRIET BEECHER STOWE MUSEUMS
- telephone: 6067594860
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE SLAVERY TO FREEDOM MUSEUM INC
PO BOX 184
WASHINGTON
KY
41096
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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE MUSEUMS Information
| MID # | 8402100429 |
| Name | HARRIET BEECHER STOWE SLAVERY TO FREEDOM MUSEUM INC |
| Alternate Name | HARRIET BEECHER STOWE MUSEUMS |
| Classification | Uncategorized or General Museums, , Southeastern |
| Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) | 611372120 |
| NTEECC | A70 |
| Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM) | 201212 |
| INCOME | 0 |
| REVENUE | 0 |
| LAT/LONG | 38.611639, -83.810465 |
| CODES | FIPS State Code: 21 FIPS County Code: 161 US Census Tract: 960400 US Census Block: 4027 |