Fort Duffield: Near Louisville, Ky.

From the March 27,2014, Louisville Courier-Journal "Auction will benefit Fort Duffield.

And, I had never heard of it.

Fort Duffield Park and Historic Site is located about 20 miles from downtown Louisville. This Union Civil War fort sits 300 feet above West Point and includes a 1000-foot-long earthen wall, a cemetery and park area.

General William T. Sherman ordered a fort built here in 1861 to protect Union supply lines going south along the old Louisville & Nashville Turnpike through Elizabethtown.

The Fort Duffield Benefit Auction will be held this Friday by West Point's Fort Duffield Heritage Committee is conducting it, but may run into a problem because of the NCAA Tournament Kentucky-Louisville game on Friday.

Ten gun emplacements have been located which would have been manned by members of the 9th Michigan Infantry Regiment. The 172 acres were once in Fort Knox.

West Point was a supply depot for the Union Army for goods brought in by river and then transferred by wagon elsewhere.

--Old Secesh