On the morning of July 14, 1863, John Craig Hunt and his ten-year-old son, Wilson, watched from their Blue Ash farmhouse as Confederate raiders led six horses from the barn, and Hunt told the boy there was little he could do against an army. Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan's cavalry had split into groups of between two and twenty men to seek food, water, and fresh horses, and eight hours later Union Brigadier General Edward Hobson's forces reached Blue Ash looking for mounts only to find that Morgan's men had already taken nearly all useful horses within a three-mile radius. Morgan had sent his troopers over multiple routes from Sharonville to hide their crossing of the Little Miami River and improve foraging, with Colonel Basil Duke's 1st Brigade moving southeast by way of Creek Road, Glendale-Milford Road, Lebanon Road, Kemper Road, and Cornell Road, while Morgan led the other column, made up of Colonel Adam "Stovepipe" Johnson's 2nd Brigade, along Reading Pike and Cooper Road to Carpenter's Run Schoolhouse and then south on Plainfield Turnpike through East Sycamore, now Rossmoyne, to the rendezvous at Montgomery. Modern historians have ranked Morgan's Indiana-Ohio Raid among the top twenty raids in world history; although it did not change the outcome of the Civil War, it set a significant precedent, has been linked here to later lightning war tactics, counted among the war's longest raids, reached farther north than any Confederate force from the contiguous southern states, included the longest nonstop cavalry march in American military history, eighty-five miles in thirty-five hours from Sunman, Indiana, to Williamsburg, Ohio, and was the largest military action of the Civil War in Indiana and Ohio.