Union soldiers stationed here beginning early in 1862 were charged with controlling the town and guarding the Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad and its many creek-crossing trestles in the area. The local population sometimes chafed under the occupation as all private firearms were confiscated and Union soldiers appropriated what they needed.
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