GC151KH A Rebel In Our Midst Cache (Traditional Cache) in Kentucky, United States created by beetle662

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Hidden : 8/10/2007

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Interesting Places in Souther Campbell County Tour - Cache 2. Located at Flagg Springs Baptist Church, in the cemetery. Be sure to check out the surroundings. Lots of history here!

The end for 2 Confederate officers began on a dangerous mission in the bloody Civil War on April 8th, 1863, near the Pendleton and Campbell County corder, not far from their homes.

Union patrols were in the area looking for other Confederate irregulars, but they located William Francis Corbin and Thomas Jefferson McGraw nearby on their recruiting mission for the confederacy. McGraw was a lieutenant born near Flagg Springs. They were trying to enlist men for the cause of the South.

Both rebels ran and hid in the woods, but surrendered after the Union commander threatened to burn down the house they had holed up in if they did not give up.

When they surrendered, Corbin and McGraw were sent to be tried under a new military order that considered recruiters to be spies and subject to execution. Even though that directive had not beeen issued until after their arrests, it was to be carried out anyway. They were taken to Cincinnati, tried and found guilty under the new law. The execution order was passed on to President Lincoln, who on May 4th, 1863 approved it.

Both men were sent to Johnsons Island on Lake Erie for execution on May 15th. They sat on the edge of their coffins so that the gunfire would push the men backwards into their coffins and save others from having to move or lift the bodies.

Corbins bosy was returned to the family cemetery in the Cathage area.

McGraws body is buried right here, at Flagg Springs Baptist Church.

In August, 1914, the United Daughters of the Confederacy announced plands to erect a monument over the grave of McGraw. That October, the ceremony took place and the Kentucky Times Star termed their story to be one of heroism.

Be sure to check out the monument at 38` 53.012N / 084' 15.838W

Much of this story is excerpted from newspaper and online articles, mostly written by Northern Kentucky historian Jim Reis.

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