Wilbur Pease

Wilbur Pease was a Captain in the Confederate Army during the Second Great War.

In 1943 Pease crossed the lines by Earlington under a white flag ostensibly to investigate atrocities being committed by U.S. Forces against Confederate civilians. He met with Lt. Dilbert Wheat and Sgt. Chester Martain who explained that the U.S. had taken hostages and executed them when "bushwhackers" killed U.S. troops. Martain added that the Confederates had acted in the same way the previous year in Ohio.

Pease, having made his point, crossed back to his own lines. Shortly thereafter, the Confederates launched a salvo of artillery rockets at the U.S. Forces. Most of the rockets came down on Earlington killing and wounding many civilians.