“Morgan’s First Kentucky Raid

It was here too that the lamented Thomas Ware, United Stated commissioner for this county, one of the oldest citizens of Cynthiana, was instantly killed, nobly and bravely doing his duty as a patriot.”

Reference Data:

The War of Rebellion: a compilation of the Union and Confederate Armies, bu the US War Department and Hon. Elihu Root, Sec. of War, 1902, page 757