Civil War museum offers to take Louisville's controversial Confederate statue (KY)
Posted: May 27, 2016 3:14 PM EDT
Updated: May 27, 2016 4:32 PM EDT
By Lawrence Smith
BARDSTOWN, Ky. (WDRB) -- ... The Civil War museum in Bardstown has the largest collection of memorabilia in the state, and it could become home to one more, Louisville's controversial Confederate memorial.
Curator Robert Llewellyn says the museum ... displays artifacts telling the Civil War story from the northern, southern and African-American perspectives.
"Kentucky was half-Confederate, half-Union, and we try to represent that," Llewellyn told WDRB News ...
The museum's board sent a letter to a member of a group seeking to preserve the statue, offering itself as an appropriate location for the monument ...
http://www.wdrb.com/story/32083829/civil-war-museum-offers-to-take-louisvilles-controversial-confederate-statue
