Creola

To avoid Union troops reported to be guarding McArthur, Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan led his depleted force around McArthur and headed north toward Creola. In the early morning hours of July 22, the raiders made camp around Creola. Morgan stayed at the Cornelius Karns House, since demolished, and Mrs. Karns cooked food for the men in a huge iron kettle in the yard. People in the path of Morgan and his raiders invariably tried to hide their horses, while the Confederates urgently needed fresh mounts and also hoped to deprive their Union pursuers. After a much-needed rest, Morgan and his troops, now in a desperate horse race ahead of the Union, departed at daybreak, and the precise direction of that contest would become clear with time.

Ohio · United States