Also, that he could dismount from a galloping horse, hit the ground, and then bounce right back onto the horse. He performed before Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and the General was so impressed that he took him for one of his personal guards. After Gen. Johnston was killed, Magruder became associated with John Hunt Morgan. Many soldiers, I feel certain, would have felt honored to have served in the capacity just mentioned. About two miles south lived four brothers.
Family tradition says that they blew up the railroad bridge just about one mile west of here.
Guerrillas, I guess because they were not official soldiers. But the Union got so hot on their trail that they ran off to Bowling Green and joined Co. H, 6th Kentucky Infantry. Three of these brothers were killed during the war. One, my grandfather Henry Sprigg Harned, survived. Just about a mile west of here lived Wilford Lee Harned who became Captain of Co. H of the 6th Kentucky Infantry.