During the second Kentucky raid, Confederate General J.H. Morgan's cavalry came from Glasgow to Hammonville on December 25, 1862. The next day, Morgan sent one unit to Bacon Creek and another to Nolin to take the stockades and burn the trestles at both places. At Nolin, two miles west, 76 Union men were taken prisoner and paroled. The stockades and trestles were burned at both places, putting the railroad out of use for a critical time.