Editing Harrison County, Kentucky (section)

==History==
Harrison County was formed on December 21, 1793, from portions of [[Bourbon County, Kentucky|Bourbon]] and [[Scott County, Kentucky|Scott]] Counties.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2000 |title=Harrison County |url=http://www.kyenc.org/entry/h/HARRI04.html |access-date=August 22, 2014 |publisher=The Kentucky Encyclopedia}}</ref> Harrison was the 17th [[list of Kentucky counties|Kentucky county]] in order of formation.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Collins, Lewis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZFQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA26 |title=Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, Volume 2 |publisher=Collins & Company |year=1882 |pages=26}}</ref> It was named after Colonel Benjamin Harrison, an early settler in the area.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rennick, Robert M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&q=cannon+ky&pg=PA132 |title=Kentucky Place Names |date=1987 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=0813126312 |pages=132 |access-date=April 28, 2013}}</ref>

The First Battle of Cynthiana was on July 17, 1862, part of Col. John Hunt Morgan's First Kentucky Raid. Morgan's Last Kentucky Raid included on June 11–12, 1864 the Civil War Second [[Battle of Cynthiana]] which was fought near Keller's Bridge and the later site of Battle of Grove Cemetery. On the first day, Confederate General [[John Hunt Morgan]] and his 1,200 Kentucky cavalrymen captured the town, making prisoners of its Union garrison (five companies from the 168th Ohio Infantry Regiment and a small group of local home guards) and nearly the entire 171st Ohio Infantry Regiment later that morning. Despite being low on ammunition, Morgan chose to stay and fight the enemy forces he knew were on their way. Union General [[Stephen G. Burbridge]] and his 2,400 cavalry and mounted infantry attacked him the next morning, driving the outnumbered Confederates from the town and freeing the prisoners.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Penn |first=William A. |title=Kentucky Rebel Town: Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County |date=2016 |publisher=U. Press of Kentucky |isbn=9780813167718 |location=Lexington, Ky. |pages=105, 175, 193, 205}}</ref>