The Filson Historical Society Digital Projects

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    Taken on the steps of the U.S. Treasury Building, 1887. Won second prize at the "Interstate Encampment and Prize Drill" held at the National Capital in May of that year, first prize going to the Washington Light Infantry, only after a "hard pull".
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    The New York Sun said, "Next came the Kentuckians, the finest looking regiment in the parade. Their single rank is the formation of the future. So perfect was their cadence that the time taken by the music to reach the rear companies caused an undulation of the long column of shining steel bayonets and white plumes, indescribably magnificent."
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    The second largest armory in the United States.
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