Shackle
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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
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…