Fort Anderson (Kentucky)

[2] The building layout was based on the then-standard Marine Hospital plan by Robert Mills and Thomas Lawson.

[2] Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, the Union military took possession of the hospital and constructed Fort Anderson around it.

[5] In March 1864, Confederate Major-General Nathan Bedford Forrest set out from Columbus, Mississippi, with a force of less than 3,000 men on a multipurpose expedition (recruit, reoutfit, disperse Yankees, etc.)

The letter reads as follows: Colonel: Having a force amply sufficient to carry your works and reduce the place, and in order to avoid the unnecessary effusion of blood, I demand the surrender of the fort and troops, with all public property.

Colonel Hicks answered with a letter of his own, which reads: Sir: I have this moment received yours of this instant, in which you demand the unconditional surrender of the forces under my command.

I can answer that I have been placed here by the Government to defend this post, and in this, as well as all other orders from my superiors, I feel it to be my duty as an honorable officer to obey.

Initially operated by the city, it was sold to the Catholic Diocese of Owensboro in 1959 and renamed Lourdes hospital.