Captured and Burned
Confederate Raids and Invasions and a Federal Retreat, in Kentucky
On second Kentucky raid CSA Gen. J.H. Morgan's cavalry came from Glasgow to Hammonville, Dec. 25, 1862. Next day sent unit to Bacon Creek and other to Nolin to take stockades and burn trestles, both places. At Nolin, two miles west, 76 Union men taken prisoners and paroled. Stockades and trestles burned both places. Railroad out of use for critical time. See map.
Marker is at the intersection of South Dixie Avenue (U.S. 31W) and Nolin Road (County Road 1407), on the left when traveling south on South Dixie Avenue.
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