At the Battle of Tebbs Bend at Green River Bridge on July 4, 1863, Confederate forces under Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan suffered heavy losses, with killed, wounded, and captured men listed from the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, and 14th Kentucky Cavalry and their commanders and surgeons. Some of the dead were taken home for burial, while others were first buried near James Madison Griffin's log house, which served as a Confederate hospital four hundred-forty yards south of this knoll overlooking Green River. In 1872, Griffin donated the land, and most of the Confederate soldiers buried nearby were disinterred from temporary graves and reburied here, including twenty to thirty bodies moved from long trenches near the battle site more than one-half mile north. One of the earliest Confederate monuments in Kentucky was then erected here at a cost of $500 through a subscription drive led by former Confederate soldier R. S. Kemper with support from Union soldiers and civilians from Lebanon and Columbia. From 1872 until 1940, the monument stood on a low concrete slab, but after its shaft fell and the top ball disappeared by 1938, a large concrete base was built to protect and raise it. On June 3, 1911, Confederate Decoration Day brought four thousand people from nearby counties to honor Civil War veterans of both sides with flowers, dinner on the grounds, music, songs, and keynote speeches by two former Federal officers. The account also notes that Confederate cavalry regiments were often reorganized, so the 5th Kentucky had later been transferred to Morgan's command, the 7th Kentucky was known throughout the war as the 3rd and included elements of Grigsby's 6th Kentucky in this fight, and the 11th Kentucky was first known as the 7th, leading captured men to give inconsistent regiment numbers to Federal prison authorities.