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| | Munfordville, Hart Co., KY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | At the beginning of the war, President Abraham Lincoln, himself a native Kentuckian, was quoted as saying that "I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game." His emphasis on the importance of Kentucky was not misplaced, because the state was the most crucial of the border states. |
| | John W. Key and his sons, also residents of Munfordville, had originally been the chief stonemasons for the bridge, and, ironically, it was these same men who placed the explosive charges beneath the southernmost piers. |
| | The temperature that day was reported to have been in the high 80s, yet the girl noticed several spots that felt "icy-cold" to her--so cold, in fact, that it made her uncomfortable, despite the heat. |
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