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January 31, 1862 Morgan captures Federal telegraphers Morgan did not forget his imprisonment in Pleasant Hill Church. Now a captain in the Confederate Calvary, John Hunt Morgan, with nine men and a guide, made his way from Bowling Green to the inn of so…
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September 1861 Morgan caught smuggling Confederate uniforms After Confederate forces occupied Columbus, a city in far western Kentucky, President Lincoln proclaimed that commercial trade with the Confederacy be stopped. Southern-leaning John Hunt Mor…
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Morgan's third Kentucky raid had not gone well from the beginning. The Battle at Tebbs Bend on July 4 cost him 35 men killed and about 40 wounded. From Tebbs Bend, Morgan pushed north, arriving in Lebanon about 7 o'clock on the morning of July 5, 1863. L…
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Providing food for soldiers was the business of the Commissary of Subsistence, an army department. The Union Army used this building, then owned by Christopher Beeler, as a commissary during the Civil War. All or part of the foodstuffs for the Union garriso…
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Word of Morgan's raid on Lebanon on July 12 quickly reached Springfield, a tiny village of 500 residents. After hearing news of the raid, F.L. Davison, prominent local planter and businessman, sent Springfield resident John Meeks to the neighboring towns to…
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John Hunt Morgan Escape Route. —. On Nov. 28, 1863, after escaping from Ohio Penitentiary & taking a train to Cincinnati, CSA Gen. John Hunt Morgan & Capt. Thomas Hines crossed the Ohio River to Ludlow. Sympathetic Boone County residents, as well as B…
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