Museum · Bardstown, Kentucky
Civil War Museum of the Western Theater
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Part of Bardstown's Museum Row, this museum (described by the institution as the fourth-largest Civil War museum in the United States) preserves thousands of artifacts from Union and Confederate forces documenting the war's Western Theater. The campus also includes Old Bardstown Village, the Women's Civil War Museum, and the General Hal Moore Military Museum.
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- 502-349-0291
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