On Saturday, May 14, 2005, members of the John Hunt Morgan Camp, led by Central Brigade Commander Curt Carter, gathered at the Rockbridge Baptist Church Cemetery in Willisburg, Kentucky, to conduct a memorial service for Pvt. Alfred Hardin of Company F, 1st Kentucky Cavalry, CSA. Also present were several members of the Hardin family, including Morgan Camp members Clifford and Adam Hardin. Pastor Travis Kearns, also a member of the SCV, led the gathering in prayer, and the 14th Kentucky Light Artillery was on hand to provide a cannon solute.

For over a century, Pvt. Hardin's grave had gone unmarked. At long last, that injustice has been corrected. Through the efforts of Clifford and Adam, with the assistance of the several of their fellow Morgan Camp members, a Confederate veteran's marker was ordered and installed to mark the final resting place of this Confederate hero.

Pvt. Alfred Hardin enlisted on October 14, 1861, into Company F, 1st Kentucky Cavalry, in Union, Kentucky. He was later transferred to the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry. Ironically, Alfred's father, whose grave was marked, enlisted in the Union army at the age of 57, but died of typhoid fever only three months later. Deo Vindice!

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