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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | US 5725.32 | Off-site |
Details
- 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
- Subjects
- 1861-1865
- Morgan's Ohio Raid > (1863)
- American Civil War > (United States : > 1861-1865)
- Biographies
- History
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Cavalry operations
- Soldiers > Kentucky > Biography
- Morgan's Ohio Raid, 1863
- Confederate States of America > Army > Morgan's Cavalry Division > Biography
- Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864
- 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