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Returning from a reconnaissance and foraging mission to the Ohio River, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his cavalry were here on December 1, 1861, when he learned of threats to and arrests of Southern sympathizers. While capturing a few instigators, regimental Surgeon S. M. VanWyck was killed. Forrest remained here another day before returning to Hopkinsville.
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