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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19IL_morgans-great-raid_West-Harrison-OH.html
July 8, 1863. Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and 2,000 cavalrymen crossed the Ohio River into Indiana. They were transported from Brandenburg, Kentucky, on two captured steamboats. For six days, the Raiders rode through Southern Indiana. Mor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19IK_when-the-civil-war-came-to-indiana_West-Harrison-OH.html
By July 1863, the American Civil War had entered its third brutal summer. In the East, Confederate forces commanded by Robert E. Lee successfully turned back repeated Union attempts to capture the Southern capital at Richmond. General Lee even man…