Guerilla Raid
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Guerilla raids on Kentucky towns and farms became quite common in 1864. This image was made by Thomas Nast for "Harper's Weekly" in 1862, and is titled "Rebel Guerilla Raid on a Western Town." Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.
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…