The barn behind the house

Kentucky · United States · Execution site

Confederate soldiers are said to have brought prisoners to this house and killed them in the barn behind it.

The account from this property in Taylor County, Kentucky holds that during the Civil War, Confederate soldiers brought prisoners here for execution, and that the killings took place in the barn behind the house.

No record supports this particular claim.

What it belongs to is not fiction. Kentucky never left the Union but was divided against itself, and the war here was fought largely by irregular bands rather than armies. Guerrillas on both sides executed prisoners, and Confederate raiders under Morgan and others moved through this country repeatedly. Killings of that kind were common and were rarely written down anywhere.

What is reported now is severe temperature change inside the house, and screaming heard at night by people walking the road past it.

The property is private.

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The barn behind the house is in Kentucky, United States.