Confederate Martyrs Grave Monument

This memorial, on Owensboro Cemetery, marks where two 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 are Charles W. Thompson (aged 18) and Pierman Powell (aged 25, who were executed on 22 July 1864.

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Source

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