City Cemetery. 0.1 mi. S of jct. of Billtown and Maple Rds., Jeffersontown, Kentucky. County/parish: Jefferson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 17, 1997. NRIS 97000691.
Part of Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS (NRIS 64500229).
1 contributing object.Also known as:
The Confederate Martyrs Monument at the Jeffersontown City Cemetery in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, United States, marks where four Confederate soldiers were executed "without cause or trial". Their execution was under Order 59, created by Union General Stephen G. Burbridge, known as "Butcher Burbridge" in Kentucky, which called for the execution of four Confederate prisoners for every unarmed Union citizen killed. The total number of executions performed as a result of this order was fifty. The four soldiers commemorated on the stone were Wilson P. Lilly, Rev. Sherwood Hatley, Lindsey Duke Buckner and M. Blincoe.
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