John Hunt Morgan (June 1, 1825 – September 4, 1864) was an American soldier who served as a Confederate

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in the

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of 1861–1865. In April 1862, Morgan raised the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (CSA) and fought in the

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(April 6 to 7, 1862) in

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. He then launched a costly raid in

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, which encouraged Confederate General

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's invasion of that state in August 1862. He also attacked the supply lines of Union General William Rosecrans. In July 1863, he set out on a raid into

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and

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, taking hundreds of prisoners. But after Union gunboats intercepted most of his men, Morgan surrendered at

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, following the

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. His point of surrender is the northernmost point ever reached by uniformed Confederates. The notorious " Morgan's Raid", carried out against orders, gained no tactical advantage for the Confederacy, while the loss of his regiment proved a serious setback. However, some historians, such as Shelby Foote, argue that the raid and the subsequent distraction of Union forces allowed Bragg's Army to escape middle Tennessee un-harassed. Morgan escaped from his Union prison but his credibility remained low, and he was restricted to minor operations. He was killed at

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, in September 1864. Morgan was the brother-in-law of Confederate general A. P. Hill.

Early life and career

John Hunt Morgan was born in

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, the eldest of ten children of Calvin and Henrietta (Hunt) Morgan. He was an uncle of geneticist

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(b. 1866) and a maternal grandson of

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, an early founder of

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, and one of the first

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s west of the

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. He was also the brother-in-law of A. P. Hill and of

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.Eicher, p. 397. He was said to be a direct descendant of Revolutionary War general and hero

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., Morgan never used his middle name of Hunt during the war — it is a post war appellation. John Wesley Hunt, Morgan's grandfather, was a leading landowner and businessman in Kentucky. "His business empire included interest in banking, horse breeding, agriculture and hemp manufacturing. Among his business associates were Henry Clay and John Jacob Astor." Morgan's paternal grandparents were Luther and Anna (Cameron) Morgan. Luther Morgan had settled in Huntsville, Alabama but a downturn in the cotton economy forced him to mortgage his holdings. His father, Calvin Morgan, lost his Huntsville home in 1831 when he was unable to pay the property taxes following the failure of his

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. The family then moved to Lexington, where he would manage one of his father-in-law's sprawling farms. Morgan grew up on the farm outside of Lexington and attended Transylvania College for two years, but was suspended in 1844 for

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ing with a

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. In 1846, Morgan became a

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, at Daviess Lodge #22, Lexington. Morgan desired a military career, but the small size of the US military severely limited opportunities for officer's commissions. In 1846 Morgan enlisted with his brother Calvin and uncle Alexander in the

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as a cavalry

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during the

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. He was elected second lieutenant and was promoted to first lieutenant before arriving in Mexico, where he saw combat in the

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. On his return to Kentucky, he became a

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manufacturer and in 1848, he married Rebecca Gratz Bruce, the 18-year-old sister of one of his business partners. After the death of John Wesley Hunt in 1849, his fortunes greatly improved as his mother, Henrietta, began financing his business ventures. In 1853, his wife Rebecca delivered a stillborn son. She contracted

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, popularly known as "milk leg", an infection of a blood clot in a vein, which eventually led to an amputation. They became increasingly emotionally distant from one another. Known as a gambler and womanizer, Morgan was also known for his generosity. He had at least one slave son, Sidney Morgan, by a slave woman, and was the biological grandfather of African American inventor

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(1877-1963). Morgan remained interested in the military. He raised a

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artillery company in 1852, but it was disbanded by the state legislature two years later. In 1857, with the rise of sectional tensions, Morgan raised an independent

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company known as the "Lexington Rifles" and spent much of his free time drilling his men.

Civil War service

Like most other Kentuckians, Morgan did not initially support secession. Immediately after

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's election in November 1860, he wrote to his brother, Thomas Hunt Morgan, who was a student at

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in northern Ohio, "Our State will not I hope secede I have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good President, at least we ought to give him a fair trial & then if he commits some

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all the South will be a unit." By the following spring, Tom Morgan, who also had opposed Kentucky's secession, had transferred home to the Kentucky Military Institute, where he began to support the Confederacy. Just before the Fourth of July, by way of a steamer from

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, he quietly left for Camp Boone, just across the

border to enlist in the Kentucky State Guard. John stayed at home in Lexington to tend to his troubled business and his ailing wife Becky, who died on July 21, 1861. In September,

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Morgan and his militia company went to Tennessee and joined the

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. Morgan soon raised the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment and became its

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on April 4, 1862. Morgan and his cavalrymen fought at the

at Shiloh in southern Tennessee on April 6–7, 1862, and he soon became a symbol to

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ists in their hopes for obtaining Kentucky for the Confederacy. A Louisiana writer, Robert D. Patrick, compared Morgan to Revolutionary War officer

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and wrote that "a few thousands of such men as his would regain us Kentucky and Tennessee." In his first Kentucky raid, Morgan left

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on July 4, 1862, with almost 900 men and in three weeks swept through Kentucky, deep in the rear of

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's army. He reported the capture of 1,200 federal soldiers, whom he paroled, acquired several hundred horses, and destroyed massive quantities of supplies. He unnerved Kentucky's Union military government, and President Lincoln received so many frantic appeals for help that he complained "they are having a stampede in Kentucky." Historian Kenneth W. Noe wrote that Morgan's feat "in many ways surpassed Major General

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's celebrated 'Ride around (Union Major General George B.) McClellan' and the

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the previous spring." The success of Morgan's raid was one of the key reasons that the Confederate Heartland Offensive of Gen. Bragg and Gen.

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was launched later that fall, assuming that tens of thousands of Kentuckians would enlist in the Confederate Army if they invaded the state. As a colonel, he was presented with a Palmetto Armory pistol by the widow of Brigadier General

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That pistol is now owned by the Museum of the American Civil War. Morgan was promoted to

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(his highest rank) on December 11, 1862, though the Promotion Orders were not signed by President Davis until December 14, 1862. He received the thanks of the Confederate Congress on May 1, 1863, for his raids on the supply lines of Union Major General William S. Rosecrans in December and January, most notably his victory at the

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on December 7. On December 14, 1862, Morgan married Martha "Mattie" Ready, the daughter of

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and a

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, another former U.S. representative from Tennessee.

Morgan's Raid

Hoping to divert Union troops and resources in conjunction with the twin Confederate operations of Vicksburg and Gettysburg in the summer of 1863, Morgan set off on the campaign that would become known as " Morgan's Raid". Morgan crossed the Ohio River and raided across southern Indiana and Ohio. At Corydon, Indiana, the raiders met 450 local Home Guard in the

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that resulted in eleven Confederates killed and five Home Guard killed. In July, at Versailles, Indiana, while soldiers raided nearby militia and looted county and city treasuries, the jewels of the local masonic lodge were stolen. When Morgan, a

, learned of the theft, he recovered the jewels and returned them to the lodge the following day. After several more skirmishes, during which he captured and paroled thousands of Union soldiers, Morgan's raid almost ended on July 19, 1863, at Buffington Island,

, when approximately 700 of his men were captured while trying to cross the

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into

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. Intercepted by Union gunboats, over 300 of his men succeeded in crossing. Most of Morgan's men captured that day spent the rest of the war in the infamous Camp Douglas

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camp in

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, which had a very high death rate. On July 26, near

, Morgan and his exhausted, hungry and saddlesore soldiers were finally forced to surrender. It was the farthest north that any uniformed Confederate troops would penetrate during the war.Dupuy, p. 525. On November 27, Morgan and six of his officers, most notably

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, escaped from their cells in the Ohio Penitentiary by digging a tunnel from Hines' cell into the inner yard and then ascending a wall with a rope made from bunk coverlets and a bent poker iron. Shortly after midnight Morgan and three of his officers boarded a train from the nearby Columbus train station; they arrived in Cincinnati that morning. Morgan and Hines jumped from the train before reaching the depot, and escaped into Kentucky by hiring a skiff to take them across the Ohio River. Through the assistance of sympathizers, they eventually made it to safety in the South. Coincidentally, the same day Morgan escaped, his wife gave birth to a daughter, who died shortly afterwards - before Morgan returned home. Though Morgan's Raid was breathlessly followed by the Northern and Southern press and caused the Union leadership considerable concern, it is now regarded as little more than a showy but ultimately futile sidelight to the war. Furthermore, it was done in direct violation of Morgan's orders from General

not to cross the river. Despite the raiders' best efforts, Union forces had amassed nearly 110,000 militia in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio; dozens of

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s along the

; and strong Federal cavalry forces, which doomed the raid from the beginning. The cost of the raid to the Federals was extensive, with claims for compensation still being filed against the U.S. government well into the early-20th century. However, the Confederacy's loss of Morgan's light cavalry far outweighed the benefits achieved by the raid.

Late career and death

After his return from Ohio, Morgan returned to active duty. However, the men he was assigned were in no way comparable to those he had lost. Morgan once again began raiding into Kentucky. However his men lacked discipline, and he was unwilling or unable to control them, leading to open pillaging along with high casualties. The raids of this season were in risky defiance of a strategic situation in the border states that had changed radically from the year before. Union military occupation of this region, long denied to major Confederate armies, had progressed to the point that even highly mobile raiders could no longer count on easily evading them. Northern public outrage at Morgan's raid across the Ohio River may well have contributed to this state of affairs. His "Last Kentucky Raid" was carried out in June 1864, the high-water mark of which was the Second Battle of Cynthiana. After winning a minor victory on June 11 against an inferior infantry unit in the engagement known as the Battle of Keller's Bridge on the Licking River, near

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, Morgan decided to take a chance the following day on another contest against superior Union mounted forces that were known to be approaching. The result was a disaster for the Confederates, resulting in the destruction of Morgan's force as a cohesive unit, only a small fraction of whom escaped with their lives and liberty as fugitives, including the General and some of his officers. After the flashy but unauthorized 1863 Ohio raid, Morgan was never again trusted by General Bragg. Nevertheless, on August 22, 1864, Morgan was placed in command of the Trans-Allegheny Department, embracing at the time the Confederate forces in eastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. Yet around this time some Confederate authorities were quietly investigating Morgan for charges of criminal banditry, likely leading to his removal from command. He began to organize a raid aimed at Knoxville, Tennessee. On September 4, 1864, he was surprised by a Union raid on

. While attempting to retreat, he was shot in the back and killed by Union cavalrymen. Morgan was buried in Lexington Cemetery. The burial was shortly before the birth of his second child, another daughter.

Legacy

* Hart County High School, in

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, the site of the Battle for the Bridge, named its mascot the Raiders, in honor of Morgan's men. Also, a large mural in the town depicts Morgan. * Trimble County High School, in Bedford, Kentucky, named its mascot the Raiders, in honor of Morgan's men. * The

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statue in Lexington is a tribute to him. The statue was relocated from the courthouse lawn in July 2018, the same location that slave auctions were held. It was placed in the Confederate section of the Lexington Cemetery. * The Hunt-Morgan House, once his home, is a contributing property in a historic district in Lexington. * The John Hunt Morgan Bridge on East Main Street/ U.S. Route 11 in Abingdon, Virginia, is named after him. * The John Hunt Morgan Bridge on South Main Street/ U.S. Route 27 in

, is named after him. * The General Morgan Inn, the location that he was killed in

, is named after him. * A Kentucky Army National Guard Field Artillery battalion, the 1st BN 623d FA (HIMARS) with headquarters in Glasgow, Kentucky, are known as Morgan's Men. * Morgan House Gift Shop and Restaurant

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. The original log cabin that was moved to this site. * A stone monument was erected in West Point, Ohio in 1909 to commemorate General Rue's defeat and capture of Morgan. It states:

Notes

Sources

* Brown, Dee A., ''The Bold Cavaliers: Morgan's Second Kentucky Cavalry Raiders.'' 1959. Republished as ''Morgan's Raiders'', Smithmark, 1995. . * Dupuy, Trevor N., Johnson, Curt, and Bongard, David L., ''

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'', Castle Books, 1992, 1st Ed., . * Evans, Harold. Who Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine. Little Brown, 2004. * Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, ''Civil War High Commands.'' Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . * Foote, Shelby. '' The Civil War: A Narrative''. Vol. 3, ''Red River to Appomattox''. New York: Random House, 1974. . * Horwitz, Lester V., ''The Longest Raid of the Civil War'', Farmcourt Publishing, 1999, . * Mackey, Robert E. ''The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865''. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. . * Noe, Kenneth W. ''Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle''. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. . * Ramage, James A. ''Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan''. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. . * Sifakis, Stewart. ''Who Was Who in the Civil War.'' New York: Facts On File, 1988. . * Warner, Ezra J. ''Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders.'' Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. .

External links

The History of the Thunderbolt Raiders
by journalists Lee Bailey and John Hambrick
John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail

"The Battle of Corydon, Indiana"
– Article by Civil War historian/author Bryan S. Bush, which contains rare images of Morgan shown courtesy of the Civil War Museum of the Western Theater in Bardstown, Kentucky.
"Morgan's Christmas Raid"
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