Stephen G. Burbridge
This file appears in: A Civil War Reprisal
Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge ordered four Confederate men to be executed in Frankfort in November 1864. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
This file appears in: A Civil War Reprisal
A Civil War Reprisal
Historical Marker #504 in Frankfort notes the location where four Confederate men were executed in 1864, as an act of retaliation for the murder of a local Unionist by guerrillas.
In the border state of Kentucky, allegiances were sometimes fluid…