On the morning of July 23, 1833, Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and 600 Confederate raiders rode down Island Run Road to the Muskingum River just below Eagleport, where Island Run forms a small island. Farmers and young boys in Rokeby Lock on the other side of the river fired hunting rifles at the Confederates, who returned the fire and quickly dispersed them. Needing to cross the river as quickly as possible, Morgan sent half his column to Hiram Winchell's ferryboat near the Eagleport Methodist Church, now St. Saviour by the River Anglican Church, while the rest of his cavalry crossed south of Eagleport at Island Run. During the ferry crossing, a Confederate soldier traded his worn-out kepi for Winchell's new hat. The Confederates also ordered a local boy, traditionally thought to have been either Lon Woodward or Johnny Fouts, to ride back and forth across the ford at Island Run to aid their passage. Morgan reportedly went into the church to pray as his troops crossed the river, and he crossed safely on the ferry. Just as the last of the raiders waded across, Union infantry sent by Ohio Governor David Tod arrived from Zanesville on a sternwheeler.