We Shall Conquer or Die: Partisan Warfare in 1862 Western Kentucky

As the Randall and Amy Shephard 2025 lecture, author and teacher Derrick Lindow will present a talk based on his book "We Shall Conquer or Die: Partisan Warfare in 1862 Western Kentucky". He will discuss this deadly and expensive war within a war which was waged behind the lines, often out of the major headlines, and that impacted Evansville as events neared the city. The fighting took hundreds of lives, destroyed or captured millions of dollars of equipment, and siphoned away thousands of men from the Union war effort.

Derrick Lindow is a United States history teacher in Owensboro, Kentucky. He is the 2015 Dr. Tom and Betty Lawrence National History Teacher Award recipient from the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the 2019 James Madison Fellow for the state of Kentucky. He is the creator and co-administrator of the Western Theater in the Civil War website, which brings together authors and historians to write about that crucial area of the war.

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