Historical Marker

Partisan Protected

Civil War's first Kentucky Federal death, Oct. 10, 1861, 4 miles east. A Union company slipped through graveyard at night to arrest C. B. Hutcherson, a local Southern sympathizer. Ten poorly equipped recruits from CSA camp of Gen. Joseph Lewis, sent to guard him, were attacked, but defeated enemy. Federals fled with one dead, seven wounded. There was no CSA loss.