A few weeks ago I watched the movie Gettysburg again. I have it on DVD and re-watch every couple years. After the movie I became curious about Harrison the spy that fed information about Union troop movements to Longstreet.
I googled and to my surprise found he is buried not too far from where I live. In 1893 he moved to Cincinnati. Then in 1912 he moved across the Ohio river to Covington, KY and applied for a Confederate pension. He died in 1923 and is buried at Highland Cemetery in
Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky.
Ironically the city of Ft. Mitchell started out as a union fort. It was one several Civil War forts established in Northern KY to defend the southern approach to Cincinnati. The final resting place of Harrison the Confederate spy owes its existence to the war and was a military fort of his (once long ago) enemy.
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