Civil War Museum

Bardstown’s Civil War Museum, founded in 1996 by Dr. Henry Spalding, centers on the Western Theater of the American Civil War, an area often overshadowed by campaigns in the East. Housed in an 8,500-square-foot former icehouse and waterworks, it is described as the fourth largest Civil War museum in the United States and displays artifacts arranged by chronology and geography, including the flag of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry captured when John Hunt Morgan was taken in Ohio. As the core of Bardstown’s Museum Row, it is joined by Old Bardstown Village, the Women’s Civil War Museum, and the Hal Moore Military Museum, creating a compact historical district.

Bardstown, Kentucky · United States