The Cannon County Historical Society will meet tonight at 6:30 at the Cannon County Senior Center 309 Lehman Street in Woodbury.
Cannon and Rutherford County Public Defender Gerald Melton will give an account of “Pump” Kersey and his Confederate band which was massacred at Half-Acre on Short Mountain in July 24 1864 by a Union force operating out of Liberty.
The story of Hiram Taylor “Pomp” Kersey is one of the major Civil War encounters taking place in Cannon County.
The Meltons reside at Half-Acre or Mechanicsville in the Short Mountain area. Their home is about one mile from the massacre scene and about half a mile in the other direction from the Melton Cemetery where Pomp was buried.
Gerald is a long time student of the War Between the States with particular interest in the Pomp Kersey story. His presentation will be of much interest to all Cannon Countians and Civil War buffs.
Refreshments will be served at 6:30, program begins at 7.
