John Marshall Harlan

ID: 2280
This file appears in: 1864 Attack on Frankfort

Former Union army colonel John Marshall Harlan, pictured here, who at the time was the state’s Attorney General, and Governor Thomas Bramlette helped defend Frankfort. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: 1864 Attack on Frankfort

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2416 in Frankfort commemorates the June 1864 Confederate attacks on Frankfort by elements of John Hunt Morgan's cavalry. In the fall of 1862, Frankfort had been captured by the…