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County: Spencer

Guerrilla Quantrill

Marker Number: 

505

Location: 

5 mi S of Taylorsville KY 55

William Quantrill, alias Captain Clarke, 4th Mo. Cav., taken here on May 10, 1865, ending four months Central Kentucky guerrilla raids. Surrounded in Wakefield's barn by Captain Terrill's 30 Kentuckians. Quantrill tried escape, mortally wounded and moved to Louisville Military Prison Hospital. He died June 6th, ending career as outlaw, then guerrilla for southern cause.

Dedicated October 20, 1962.

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