The Great Indiana-Ohio Raid

 

The greatest of all cavalry raids in the Civil War was that undertaken by Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and his 2,462 Confederate troopers from June 11, 1863 – July 26, 1863.  Riding over a thousand miles behind enemy lines, Morgan and his men created panic in several Union states, and caused Union forces of well over 100,000 men to be mobilized against them.  During the raid they captured and paroled approximately 6,000 Union troops and destroyed millions of dollars in Union war supplies, railroads, bridges, etc.  By the time that Morgan and 700 of his men surrendered in Northern Ohio, they had succeeded in spreading chaos wherever they went and diverting Union attention away from Confederate General Bragg’s operations in Tennessee.  Morgan made a daring escape from captivity in November of 1863, but that is a story for another post.

                          

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  1. On May 7, 2010 at 4:31 am John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail « Almost Chosen People said:

    […] video above describes well the panic that accompanied John Hunt Morgan’s Great Raid through Indiana and Ohio in 1863.  In most nations that raid would still be remembered with hatred by people of Indiana and […]

  2. On June 29, 2011 at 5:31 am Top Ten Civil War Movies For The Fourth of July | The American Catholic said:

    […] beliefs or to take up arms against General John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate cavalry during his Great Raid of the North in June-July of 1863.  When the oldest son of the Birdwell family, portrayed by […]

  3. On June 29, 2011 at 5:32 am Top Ten Civil War Movies For The Fourth of July « Almost Chosen People said:

    […] beliefs or to take up arms against General John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate cavalry during his Great Raid of the North in June-July of 1863.  When the oldest son of the Birdwell family, portrayed by […]


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