Deerfield Township

Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and 600 Confederate cavalrymen entered Deerfield Township in Morgan County about dusk on July 22, 1863. Morgan rested his men for the night at the John Weaver Farm near the Island Run headwaters. After assuring the Weaver family that they would not be harmed, he pulled a straw tick from a bed and fell asleep on the floor of the cabin while the raiders slept in the orchard. The Confederates burned some fence rails for firewood and fed a small amount of the Weavers' newly harvested wheat to their horses, but they did no other harm to the farmstead. Mrs. Weaver stayed up all night making griddlecakes and biscuits for the soldiers. The following morning Morgan asked John Weaver to guide him to Eagleport, a recognizable landmark on his map, and as the Confederates approached Eagleport, they released Weaver unharmed. Morgan County was named for John Hunt Morgan's ancestor, Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, who was famed for service in the American Revolutionary War.

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