Confederate Colonel William W. Ward's pistol

ID: 99
This file appears in: The Battle of Tebbs Bend

This Model 1854 LeFaucheux pistol was owned by Confederate Colonel William W. Ward, who commanded the 9th Tennessee Cavalry in John Hunt Morgan's raiders. Ward and many of his men were captured on Morgan's failed raid into Ohio and Indiana. Courtesy the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: The Battle of Tebbs Bend

By Talbott
Historical Marker #706 in Taylor County notes the Battle of Tebbs Bend. There, on July 4, 1863, Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan's command ran into a much smaller Federal force on the Green River…