Morgan's Raid, July 1863

During the Civil War, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan led a raid through southern Indiana from July 8-13, 1863. He crossed the Ohio River at Brandenburg, Kentucky, on two commandeered steamboats with over 2,000 cavalrymen and entered Indiana near Mauckport. After a battle at Corydon, the raiders traveled north to Salem, then east to Vienna on July 10, where they burned a railroad bridge and depot and tapped a telegraph line. They spent the night in Lexington, then moved northeast through towns including Vernon, Dupont, and Versailles before leaving Indiana at Harrison, now West Harrison. Morgan and part of his force were captured in eastern Ohio.

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