Around 3 pm on July 23, 1863, Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and about 600 Confederate raiders entered Cumberland. Morgan and a handful of his officers rested at the Globe House, while others went into the home of Dr. Stone. Some of Morgan’s men tried to steal Stone’s horse from his barn, but when he protested that he needed it to visit housebound patients, they agreed to leave it in exchange for $75. He paid and kept the horse, though later raiders passing through Cumberland took it anyway. The Confederates also invited themselves to dinner in local homes and received home-cooked meals. Morgan’s men obtained fresh horses in the Cumberland area, along with cash and goods from the Holmes and Colonel Squire stores. A Cumberland man was forced to guide the raiders to Point Pleasant, now Pleasant City, where he was released, and innkeeper Harrison Secrest then became their next unwilling guide. Passing through Hartford, now Buffalo, Morgan’s troops burned a bridge across the Seneca branch of Willis Creek and continued to Senecaville. For several hours, stragglers from Morgan’s command moved through Point Pleasant, and while resting there, some shot an approaching rider who did not answer their challenge. The man was John Happs, one of their own soldiers, who had fallen asleep in the saddle. Forced to leave him behind, the Confederates left Happs to be reluctantly nursed back to health by a local Christian family.