Confederate Martyrs Monument Midway

This memorial, on Midway Cemetery, marks where four Confederate soldiers were buried after being executed "without cause or trial", due to Order #59, the creation of 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 soldiers commemorated on the stone were M. Jackson, J. Jackson, C. Rissinger and N. Adams, who were executed on 5 November 1864.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: C. Bedford Crenshaw