Shackle

ID: 2286
This file appears in: A Civil War Reprisal

It is believed that this shackle was used on one of the executed prisoners at Frankfort. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: A Civil War Reprisal

By Tim Talbott
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…