756 Courthouse a Hospital

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Marker reads, Boyle Countys first courthouse erected here, 1842, destroyed by great fire of 1860. This building completed 1862. First occupied by Union forces as hospital after battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862. On 11th a Union force drove Confederate States Army from fairgrounds, thru town, skirmishing all way. Confederate States Army armies gathered at Bryantsville, started back to Tennessee on 13th.