4 the Marathon Murders
“I stopped by the sheriff’s office and got instructions to follow Church Street, or Highway 141, south of Hartsville and across the Cumberland River. I drove leisurely past vintage churches, an odd lot of small businesses, and several nondescript homes on the south side of town. When I spotted a historical marker near a sign pointing to the Battle of Hartsville Park, I pulled in to see what it was about. Since the Japanese hadn’t made it this far in World War II, the battle had to have taken pla...ce during the Civil War. I’m not much of a student of that period in our history, but a couple of friends from our Sunday School class were rabid Civil War buffs. This would give me an opportunity to surprise them with a bit of unexpected battle lore tomorrow morning.
The World War II analogy turned out to be not all that far-fetched. The battle took place on December 7, 1862, seventy-nine years to the day before Pearl Harbor. According to the marker: “After marching 24 miles in four inches of snow and crossing the icy Cumberland River, Colonel John Hunt Morgan and 1,300 men attacked the Federal 39th Brigade under the command of Colonel Absalom B.MoreLess
The World War II analogy turned out to be not all that far-fetched. The battle took place on December 7, 1862, seventy-nine years to the day before Pearl Harbor. According to the marker: “After marching 24 miles in four inches of snow and crossing the icy Cumberland River, Colonel John Hunt Morgan and 1,300 men attacked the Federal 39th Brigade under the command of Colonel Absalom B.MoreLess
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