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Roy Stuart Cluke enlisted in the Confederate army from his home and farm at this site. He was commissioned Colonel of the 8th Regiment Kentucky Cavalry, CSA, in September 1862. Immediate action in Kentucky won the confidence of General John H. Morgan, and he was with Morgan in the December 1862 and July 1863 raids until his capture in Ohio. He died on December 31, 1863, in a U.S. prison at age 39 and was buried near Morgan in Lexington Cemetery.
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