Company E , 52nd Kentucky Infantry, Civil War.
During the Civil War, a Union fort was built in Iberia under the command of Capt. William Long, son of James and Harriett Long. This old fort stood where the Farnham and Sons Lumber Co. once existed in the 1940s-50s when I was a child growing up in Iberia. Capt. Long was killed during the Civil War at his parent's farm home a few miles southwest of Iberia. While visiting his family, a group of bushwhackers rode up to the Long homestead and ordered Capt. Long outside. He helped his father, mother and an old slave gentleman to escape from the marauders, but they set the house on fire and as Capt. Long fled from the flames he was gunned down in the yard, killed instantly. Perhaps this was the beginning of the harassment the Long family endured over the next few years.
--by Bev
During the Civil War, a Union fort was built in Iberia under the command of Capt. William Long, son of James and Harriett Long. This old fort stood where the Farnham and Sons Lumber Co. once existed in the 1940s-50s when I was a child growing up in Iberia. Capt. Long was killed during the Civil War at his parent's farm home a few miles southwest of Iberia. While visiting his family, a group of bushwhackers rode up to the Long homestead and ordered Capt. Long outside. He helped his father, mother and an old slave gentleman to escape from the marauders, but they set the house on fire and as Capt. Long fled from the flames he was gunned down in the yard, killed instantly. Perhaps this was the beginning of the harassment the Long family endured over the next few years.
--by Bev
Company E , 52nd Kentucky Infantry, Civil War.
During the Civil War, a Union fort was built in Iberia under the command of Capt. William Long, son of James and Harriett Long. This old fort stood where the Farnham and Sons Lumber Co. once existed in the 1940s-50s when I was a child growing up in Iberia. Capt. Long was killed during the Civil War at his parent's farm home a few miles southwest of Iberia. While visiting his family, a group of bushwhackers rode up to the Long homestead and ordered Capt. Long outside. He helped his father, mother and an old slave gentleman to escape from the marauders, but they set the house on fire and as Capt. Long fled from the flames he was gunned down in the yard, killed instantly. Perhaps this was the beginning of the harassment the Long family endured over the next few years.
--by Bev
During the Civil War, a Union fort was built in Iberia under the command of Capt. William Long, son of James and Harriett Long. This old fort stood where the Farnham and Sons Lumber Co. once existed in the 1940s-50s when I was a child growing up in Iberia. Capt. Long was killed during the Civil War at his parent's farm home a few miles southwest of Iberia. While visiting his family, a group of bushwhackers rode up to the Long homestead and ordered Capt. Long outside. He helped his father, mother and an old slave gentleman to escape from the marauders, but they set the house on fire and as Capt. Long fled from the flames he was gunned down in the yard, killed instantly. Perhaps this was the beginning of the harassment the Long family endured over the next few years.
--by Bev
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