[ September 7, 2011; 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Join the Knox County Historical Society for a program on “Buckeyes in the Confederacy”.   John Morgan will lead a presentation about Centerburg-born  Brig. General Daniel H. Reynolds and other Ohioans who served in the  Confederate ranks during America’s Civil War.

Location:  The Knox County Historical Society Museum,  875 Harcourt Road, Mount Vernon, Ohio

Sponsor: Knox County Historical Society

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In the spring of 1864, John Brough, the governor of Ohio, proposed that the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin enlist men to help defend their respective states during the American Civil War. Ohio would enlist thirty thousand new soldiers. Indiana and Illinois would furnish twenty thousand men apiece, [...]

By Chris Hart
Historian, Roscoe Village
During the summer of 1863, General John Hunt Morgan led a band of 2500 Confederate cavalry in a daring raid across southern Indiana and Ohio.   Burning bridges and buildings, looting stores and demanding ransom, the raiders caused much confusion and panic during June and July.   Rumors ran rampant and the gang [...]

On July 8, 1863, Brigadier-General John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate cavalry leader, led approximately two thousand soldiers across the Ohio River into southern Indiana. Morgan’s superiors had dispatched the cavalry leader into northern Kentucky to cause disorder among the Union military. Morgan exceeded these orders by crossing north of the Ohio River, but he did [...]

By Lester V. Horwitz

Morgan’s Raid in July 1863 is an indelible part of Ohio’s history. It happened in the middle of the Civil War. Two years of the war (1861-1862) had been fought before Morgan’s Raid and two more years (1864-1865) would follow before the great American tragedy ended. The year 1863 was the turning [...]