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County: Breckinridge

"Sue Mundy Captured"

Marker Number: 

536

Location: 

US 60 near Meade Co. line

At age of 17, in 1861, Jerome Clarke, called Sue Mundy, joined Confederate Army. He was with Morgan's Raiders from 1862 until Morgan's death in 1864. He then became notorious as a guerrilla. On March 12, 1865 Union soldiers captured him here with two other leaders of guerrilla bands. Clarke, then only 20, was executed three days later in Louisville.

Erected in 1962.

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