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History Monday: 13th Kentucky Cavalry The Columbia Public Square history walk featuring old stories of those "Shot, Stabbed, Hanged & More," with Mike Watson and Dave Thomas, is getting rave reviews. One of the stories Mike Watson shared went like this, "I'm going to consolidate three or four stories here that all focused around the Civil War because we were right in the middle of everything. "You have to keep in mind that part of the reason for that was geographically we are right between Lebanon where the railroad came to, and the Cumberland River. Confederates were stationed across the Cumberland River and the Union camps were stationed right around here. "There were union soldiers in Columbia but there were times when there were five or six thousand, and not just Kentucky soldiers, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and various other states. They will come through and stay for a few days or sometimes a few weeks before they moved out or moved on. "When they started recruiting soldiers, young men thought they should volunteer so they'd typically come to the courthouse and sign up - we have those lists in Frankfort where you can see the original roles for some of those companies. "One of the regiments to survive was the 13th Kentucky Cavalry - formed two years after the War had started. "Many from Adair County and all the surrounding counties served in the 13th, if not the their full term, part of their term. "A lot of activity went on in this town in the camps, lots of meanness. "There is one particular instance that's well known in this county and if you don't know what it is, I think tonight's the night you need to learn it. "In 1865 - August of that year - the War was essentially over but there were still a lot of soldiers here - Company L of the 13th Cavalry was stationed right out here on Russell Creek. Of course they had supplies coming in but they didn't get enough to eat - or they didn't think so. We all like fried chicken, you know, and so they would go out scavenging for food. "On one particular night, about three miles out what we call 55 south, there were at least two Privates from that Company who went into Gaither Miller's henhouse - he was a prominent farmer out there. "Their son, John, who had been a Private in another company was back at home and been discharged. He was at home and he heard the chickens so he got up and went out. I don't know why he went out without a firearm, but he did and when he got close, he saw they were there to read and one of them, a little man, run off, but he fired his pistol in the air. The other guy, a big man, shot John Miller, and before he died he described the two men, the smaller one who shot into the air and the big dark killer. "His mother saw it all and she said yes that's exactly what happened. It was a soldier so they went to the camp and started looking for anybody that was missing. "The small man was Motley and they put him in jail and the other fellow was Green Johnson. Through a manhunt, a private individual who was unknown as a tracker of when somebody was on the run, found Green, he and his son from Glensfork. Green Johnson down in Fentress County Tennessee to go into those territories. "They brought him in and he was trying Courthouse before and found guilty. It didn't take but a minute because it was kind of a clearcut case and he was sentenced to be hanged on Oak Hill behind where the old grade school was at the top of Guardian Street hill where Tutt Street runs today - that was all big farm back in there, - so that's that's where we executed people, as a norm, during the 1800s." This story was posted on 2024-11-03 23:56:42
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