(Mayfield, KY - June 21, 2012) - On this date in 1862, Graves County Unionists were rallying behind their candidates for the August state elections.
The Union men endorsed Circuit Judge Rufus King Williams of Mayfield for the court of appeals -- then the Bluegrass State's highest court. They wanted Ballard County Judge Charles Marshall to succeed him. Major P.D. Yeiser of Paducah was their choice for commonwealth's attorney. The trio was "eminently entitled to the support of all loyal men," Thomas H. Mayes declared in a June 16 letter published in the Louisville Journal, the state's most important pro-Union newspaper
