Fort Williams Cannon - Glasgow, KY
N 36° 59.856 W 085° 55.548
16S E 595582 N 4095145
Lone cannon at this Civil War era fortification.
Waymark Code: WM76J0
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 09/09/2009
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Site of Civil War fort built in spring of 1863. Attacked Oct. 6 by Confederate Col. John M Hughes and his 25th Tenn. Infantry. US troops under Maj. Samuel Martin suprised. Over 200 horses captured, part of fort burned, and 142 men taken prisoner, later paroled.
In nearby cemetery is buried Gen. Joseph H. Lewis, Commander of 1st Kentucky (Orphan) Brigade, CSA.