Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets
March 26, 1866, with the formal duel well into decline and strict Kentucky laws forbidding the practice, Joseph Desha (32) and Alexander Kimbrough (27) met at the familiar dueling grounds on the Fayette/Scott border a little before 6:00 a.m., to settle their differences. Both men were childhood classmates in Harrison County who never cared for each other. Both came from respected families; both men were wounded Civil War Veterans, Desha, a Confederate, and Kimbrough, a Union man.
One of the pistols used once belonged to Henry Clay. In the 1st round, both men missed. In the 2nd round, Kimbrough fell to the ground bleeding from the hip; Desha narrowly missed a bullet as it went through his coat. This was the last important affair of honor fought in Kentucky under the strict code of the duello. Desha and his second traveled to Canada for several years until granted a pardon by an ex-Confederate, then-current Kentucky Governor James B. McCreary. Kimbrough recovered at his parents’ Harrison County farm and eventually moved west. He walked with a severe limp his entire life. Famous Kentucky Duels by J. Winston Coleman, Jr.; pg: 123
Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Bowling Green native Duncan Hines, born in 1880.

March 26, 1971, Army PFC Robert D. Coffey from Sturgis in Union County died in the Vietnam War.

March 26, 2016, the GII $200,000 Santa Ana Stakes is won by a neck.