prune picker

This is the blog of a prune picker. (Native born Californian) Retired oilfield. I am an old man. I blog a lot about my body and getting old. As I approach death life gets more interesting. More interesting is not good. I still drive. I attend sports, music, and civic events. I am writing my memoirs. I attend swim class three times a week. Some of my blogs might be interesting. A lot of my blogs are silly and trivial. None are very long.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

The Battle of Blue Lick.

This was the last battle of the Revolutionary War. It was a defeat for the Kentuckians. Daniel Boone and family were among the Kentuckians. Daniel lost a son and a nephew in the battle. It was fought 10 months after the surrender of Cornwallis.


I went in the park and found another grave.


There were many parties, called burial parties that recovered bodies of many of the fallen. Daniel recovered the bodies of his kin. The unclaimed were buried here.





One of the fallen received a personal marker.


The battle was fought about 10 miles south of Mt Olivet, the county seat of Robertson County.

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