During the Civil War, both Union and Confederate troops used Marrowbone as a camp several times. In mid-February 1863, Federal 1st Kentucky Cavalrymen under Col. Frank Wolford encamped at Marrowbone. During the spring of 1863, detachments of at least three of Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s regiments, under Col. D. Howard Smith, Col. A. R. Johnson, and Col. D.W. Chenault, operated in and around Marrowbone and Mud Camp Ford, capturing a mill and operating it for the rebel army. In June 1863, Gen. Edward H. Hobson was placed in charge of a Union camp at Marrowbone as rumors spread that Gen. John Hunt Morgan was planning another raid into Kentucky. Morgan’s forces crossed the Cumberland on July 1 and 2, and fought a skirmish between Marrowbone and Norris Branch on July 2. Shortly after that engagement, Brig. Gen. James M. Shackelford’s brigade arrived to support Hobson, and several cavalry and infantry regiments were immediately dispatched under Shackelford’s command in pursuit of Morgan. Three miles out the Burkesville Road, Hobson’s superior officer, Gen. Henry M. Judah, ordered Shackelford to halt and return to Marrowbone, and Col. Richard C. Jacob’s 9th Kentucky Cavalry was sent to guard the road and intercept the Federal cavalrymen and turn them back. Meanwhile, Morgan continued north, turning back the few Federal defenders at Columbia on July 3, bypassing a Federal position at Green River Bridge on July 4, and securing the surrender of Union forces at Lebanon on July 5. Judah did nothing, and his force, immobilized by high water, waited to be ferried across the Green River at Vaughn’s Ferry in Green County. The responsibility of pursuing Morgan was given to Hobson. In January and February 1864, the 13th Kentucky Cavalry, U.S.A., occupied the camp at Marrowbone while searching for rebel guerillas, and in February they captured Capt. Littleton T. Richardson and several of Champ Ferguson’s men near here.