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 [...]

Topic: Citizenship
Lesson: Morgan’s Raid (574 k)
This lesson and activities examine the cause, effect, and impact of Morgan’s Raid upon the citizens of Ohio during the Civil War. It uses a timeline to illustrate sequence of events and a map to locate the action.