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Col. Albert P. Thompson fell here in the Battle of Paducah on March 25, 1864, killed by a Union cannonball. He commanded the 3rd Ky. Inf. CSA. The battle climaxed Gen. Nathan B. Forrest's memorable raid seeking medical supplies and munitions. Thompson, a respected lawyer here, joined the Confederate cause in 1861. After the war he was reinterred at Murray.
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Paducah, Kentucky · United States
