Courthouse Burned (Marker Number: 579)
Princeton, United States of America
Hylan Benton Lyon (February 22, 1836 – April 25, 1907) was a career officer in the United States Army until the start of the American Civil War, when he resigned rather than fight against the South. As a Confederate brigadier general, he led a cavalry raid into Kentucky in December 1864, in which hi
s troops burned seven county courthouses which were being used as barracks by the Union Army.
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