In July 1863, Confederate Brigadier-General John Hunt Morgan led 2,000 cavalrymen across southern Ohio after entering from Indiana, while Union cavalry under Brigadier-General Edward Hobson and thousands of Union militia at Cincinnati and Hamilton pursued them across twenty Ohio counties. To evade 2,500 Union cavalrymen, Morgan's exhausted troopers made a daring night ride that became the longest sustained cavalry ride in American military history. Around 9 P.M., the cavalry passed through New Burlington, rode north on Mt. Pleasant and Hamilton Pike, present day Mill Road, then headed east on Bank Lick Road, Kemper Road, reaching the Village of Springdale around midnight. Confederate troops entered several Springdale houses and businesses to confiscate food, drink, supplies, and horses to replace jaded mounts, and the home of the town butcher, John Watson, served as General Morgan's temporary headquarters. After an hour's delay waiting for the rear brigade, the raiders proceeded south on Springfield Pike and turned east toward Glendale. Citizens later captured two of Morgan's men who had fallen asleep in the Old St. Mary Cemetery, and Hobson's pursuing forces arrived in Springdale after 11 A.M. on July 14. Morgan's Indiana-Ohio Raid, or Great Raid, from July 2 to 26, 1863, covered one of the longest distances of any raid of the Civil War, penetrated deeper into the North than any other Confederate incursion, spanned over seven hundred miles in twenty five days, and was the only significant military action of the Civil War within Ohio.