On July 9, 1863, along a wooded ridge from the Laconta Road across the Mauckport Pike to the old New Amsterdam Road, the Battle of Corydon became the only Civil War battle in Indiana. It was fought between Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate Cavalry Division and the Sixth Regiment of the Indiana Legion, the Harrison County Home Guards, under Col. Lewis Jordan. This was the first and only organized resistance Morgan met during his raid through Indiana, and one of the few Civil War battles fought on Northern soil. Morgan’s division had entered Indiana at Morvin’s Landing east of Mauckport on the afternoon of July 8, 1863, using the captured steamboats J. T. McCombs and Alice Dean to cross the Ohio River, then burning the Alice Dean, which sank at the mouth of Buck Creek near the Indiana shore. After encamping that night at Frakes Mill about seven miles north of the Ohio River, Morgan’s men marched toward Corydon on the morning of July 9 while the Home Guards built a breastwork of logs, stones, and rails along the ridge. From behind these defenses about 400 Home Guards repulsed several Confederate attacks beginning around 11 A.M., but the main Confederate force, aided by artillery, eventually charged and flanked both ends of the line, routing the defenders and forcing them to retreat. Morgan’s men shelled Corydon until Lewis Jordan raised a white flag and surrendered with 345 men. Confederate losses were 8 killed and 33 wounded; Home Guard losses were 3 killed and 8 wounded. Afterward Morgan’s division briefly occupied Corydon, ate food prepared for the Home Guards, robbed the county treasurer, looted some merchants, imposed a levy on the county’s flour mills, and received $2,000.00 as ransom for the mills. That afternoon the division rode north out of Corydon, taking about 500 local horses and leaving their worn Kentucky Thoroughbreds. The raid continued through Indiana and Ohio for seventeen more days until Morgan and the last few hundred of his troops surrendered near New Lisbon, Ohio on July 26, and the entire route covered more than one thousand miles, the longest cavalry raid of the Civil War.