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Lewis Morgan
Confederate Cavalry
6th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry
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CONFEDERATE KENTUCKY TROOPS
6th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry
6th Cavalry Regiment was organized during the summer of 1862 with men from the central and eastern section of Kentucky. It was mustered into Confederate service in September. For a time the unit skirmished in Kentucky attached to Buford's Brigade, then it fought with J.H. Morgan. Most of its members were captured at Buffington Island on July 19 and the remaining part at New Lisbon on July 26, 1863. The regiment was not reorganized. Its commanders were Colonel J. Warren Grigsby, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas W. Napier, and Major William G. Bullitt.
Buffington Island
Other Names: St. Georges Creek
Location: Meigs County
Campaign: Morgan’s Raid in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio (July 1863)
Date(s): July 19, 1863
Principal Commanders: Brig. Gen. Edward H. Hobson [US]; Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan [CS]
Forces Engaged:Brigades: 4,700 total (US 3,000; CS 1,700)
Estimated Casualties: 925 total (US 25; CS 900)
Description: On July 13, Morgan’s raiders crossed into Ohio at Harrison, pursued by several columns of Union cavalry under overall direction of Brig. Gen. Edward H. Hobson. On July 19, Kautz’s and Judah’s brigades attacked Morgan near Buffington Island. During the night, Morgan and about 400 men escaped encirclement by following a narrow woods path. The rest of his force surrendered.
Result(s): Union victory
CWSAC Reference #: OH001
Preservation Priority: N/A (Class C)
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U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
about Lewis Morgan
Name: Lewis Morgan
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: Kentucky
Regiment Name: 6 Kentucky Cavalry.
Regiment Name Expanded: 6th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry
COMPANY: K
Rank In: Private
Rank In Expanded: Private
Rank Out: Private
Rank Out Expanded: Private
Alternate Name: L./Morgan
Film Number: M377 roll 9
Source Information:
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American Civil War General Officers
about John Hunt Morgan
Name: John Hunt Morgan
State Served: Kentucky
Highest Rank: Brigadier General
Birth Date: 1825
Death Date: 1864
Birth Place: Huntsville, Alabama
Army: Confederacy
Promotions: Promoted to Full Colonel (2nd KY Cav)
Promoted to Full Brig-Gen
Biography: Brigadier-General John Hunt Morgan
Brigadier-General John Hunt Morgan was born at Huntsville,
Ala., June 1, 1825, but was reared in Kentucky from the age of
four years, upon the farm near Lexington to which his parents
removed. He was the eldest of six brothers, of whom all bore
arms for the Confederacy. It is said that he was a lineal
descendant of Daniel Morgan, of Revolutionary fame.
His first military experience was at the time of the war with
Mexico, when he had the rank of lieutenant in Capt. O. P.
Beard's company, General Marshall's cavalry, and in later
years he was captain of the Lexington Rifles. During the
period following the Mexican war he devoted himself with
success to manufacturing.
On April 16, 1861, he telegraphed President Davis: "Twenty
thousand men can be raised to defend southern liberty against
northern conquest. Do you want them?" But he was not
encouraged to immediate action.
In September he was arrested by Home Guards while conveying
jeans cloth southward from his factory, and imprisoned for
three days; and in the latter part of that month he joined the
Confederate forces at Bowling, mustered in November 5th.
He became a colonel in the summer of 1862, when he organized
the Second cavalry at Chattanooga. Then, in July, he won fame
by his first Kentucky raid. In August he covered the front of
Bragg's army concentrating at McMinnville, Tenn., with
victorious engagements at Gallatin and Hartsville.
During Bragg's occupation of Kentucky, part of his men
advanced to the Ohio river at Augusta. On October 18th, he
captured several hundred Federals at Lexington, after a severe
fight. On the return to Tennessee he was given command of a
cavalry brigade, composed of his own regiment and the Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Kentucky cavalry.
On December 7th, he won a brilliant victory at Hartsville. On
the 11th he was commissioned brigadier-general. Then followed
his "Christmas raid" in Kentucky, which, with his previous
exploits, elicited a resolution of thanks from Congress.
His cavalry division was now formed, the First brigade
including the Second, Fifth, Sixth and Ninth Kentucky and
Ninth Tennessee regiments; the Second brigade, the Third,
Eighth, Eleventh and Tenth Kentucky. Taking position on the
right of Bragg's army in middle Tennessee, he fought the enemy
at Vaught's Hill, Milton, Liberty, and Snow's Hill, March 19th
to April 3rd, and on May 10th defeated the Federals in
southeast Kentucky, at the battle of Greasy Creek.
On June 27th, as Rosecrans advanced to force Bragg from
Tennessee, General Morgan started out from Sparta, to draw off
the Federal strength by an invasion of the Northwest. It
happened that his heaviest fighting was in Kentucky.
Colonel Chenault, Major Brent, and many other brave men fell
at Green River bridge, July 4th, and at Lebanon young Thomas
H. Morgan was killed.
After a circuit through Indiana and Ohio around Cincinnati, he
attempted to recross the Ohio river at Buffington island, July
19th. But after a spirited battle, Colonel Duke and part of
his command were captured, and Morgan, with the remainder,
forced to continue eastward.
On the 26th, Colonels Grigsby and Johnson, with 300 or 400
men, forded the river, and Morgan himself was halfway across
when he saw that most of his men must be captured, and
returned to share their fate.
He and his officers were treated rather as criminals than
military prisoners, and confined, with the usual indignities,
in the Ohio State prison. But before the end of the year he
had escaped with six companions, and passed through Kentucky
and Tennessee to the Confederate lines.
In January, 1864, he was given authority to reorganize his
command, and in the following month, at his own request, was
ordered from Decatur, GA, to Abingdon, Va. There he had the
duty of defending the salt works and lead mines, soon
threatened by formidable columns under Crook and Burbridge.
He checked Crook at Wytheville in May, and then made a raid in
Kentucky to compel the retreat of Burbridge. On June 8th he
took Mt. Sterling and 400 men, and on the 11th captured
General Hobson and 1,800 men at Cynthiana.
But Burbridge was in close pursuit, and Morgan was badly
defeated on the 12th. Overwhelmed by misfortune, he yet
demonstrated his great nature by renewed efforts to defend his
territory.
The enemy having penetrated Bull's Gap in August, he was
advancing on that post with about 1,000 men when attacked at
Greeneville, Tenn., at daylight, September 4th, by Gillem's
cavalry. While escaping from the house in which he had passed
the night, he was shot and killed. His body, shamefully
treated at the time, was afterward interred with honor in the
cemetery at Lexington.
Source: Confederate Military History, vol. XI, p. 245
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