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How This Union General Who Executed Guerrillas and Imprisoned Political Foes Became the Most Hated Man in Kentucky

Published: Oct. 21, 2021, 6:20 a.m.

For the last third of the nineteenth century, Union General Stephen Gano Burbridge, also known as the \u201cButcher of Kentucky,\u201d enjoyed the unenviable distinction of being the most hated man in Kentucky. From mid-1864, just months into his reign as the...