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John Hunt Morgan and his raiders / Edison H. Thomas.

Title
John Hunt Morgan and his raiders / Edison H. Thomas.
Author
Thomas, Edison H.
Publication
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1975.

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Description
xii, 119, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
Biography of John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864), son of Calvin C. Morgan and Henrietta Hunt, was born in Huntsville, Alabama but brought up in Lexington, Kentucky. He served with Kentucky troops during the Mexican War, and in 1847 married Rebecca Gratz Bruce. He served as a Confederate cavalry officer, chiefly effective as a raider and guerrilla fighter against the north, and died in battle on September 1864 near Greeneville, Tennessee.
Series Statement
The Kentucky bicentennial bookshelf
Uniform Title
Kentucky Bicentennial bookshelf
Subject
  • Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864
  • Confederate States of America. Army. Morgan's Cavalry Division > Biography
  • 1861-1865
  • Morgan's Ohio Raid, 1863
  • Soldiers > Kentucky > Biography
  • United States > History > Cavalry operations > Civil War, 1861-1865
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 117-[120]
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0813102146
LCCN
^^^75003553^//r933
OCLC
  • 1863313
  • SCSB-11279540
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library