Dover

On July 13, 1863, General Morgan's raiders looted a tavern in Dover. Its Irish-born proprietor, James Murtaugh, protested without success. The tavern was an inn with a dance hall on the second floor that could be reached by a hand-operated elevator. Despite their exhaustion, the raiders' mischievous spirit was evident as long bolts of stolen cloth unfurled from behind their saddles when they rode out of town. Just 4/10 of a mile south on SR 1, at the Huber-Briggs Cemetery, a young man named Glardon was laid to rest, and as Morgan's men passed along the road east of Dover, now North Dearborn Road, they took the two fine horses pulling the hearse.

Indiana · United States