In a message dated 5/28/00 1:56:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, wmh-fp@mciworld.com writes: > I can't comment on skirmishes, but I have a hunch "Kentucky, VA" referred to > a Virginia County by name of Kentucky. There was one. All of Kentucky was > originally in VA. You might try that angle and find someone who is a Civil > War There is Kentuck, WV in Jackson Co, just east of I-77. Kentucky, Virginia was formed in 1776 from Fincastle, it became extinct in Nov 1780 when it was divided into Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln, the three original counties of Kentucky, long before the Civil War, Lincoln Co. named for major general Benjamin Lincoln whose army was captured by the British at Charleston in 1799. Sandy in Florida