Bardstown, Kentucky, a beautiful, beautiful town south of Louisville, offers with many interesting sights. This, to me, was most interesting: a monument to 35 men of the Kentucky Mustangs, 1st Regiment Volunteers led by Capt. Burr Duval from Bardstown who went to Texas in 1836 to fight for Texas independence. Several hundred volunteers from all over the then United States, including the men honored by this monument, were surrendered to Mexican forces and were then executed by the Mexican General Santa Anna on March 22, 1836 at what has since become known as the Goliad Massacre. The monument is on the grounds of a very well done pioneer village at Bardstown.
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