Confederate cavalry raider Gen. John Hunt Morgan frequently passed through Livingston, strategically located at a crossroads in the Upper Cumberland region. Morgan and his men first came there on July 7, 1862, as they approached the Kentucky line for a successful summer raid. Three weeks later they returned, and Morgan split his force, with Col. Basil W. Duke taking one detachment to Sparta while Morgan led the remainder to Knoxville. Later in 1862, the 9th Tennessee Cavalry joined Morgan’s forces, and in the spring of 1863 new Confederate conscripts from Overton County joined the 9th Tennessee’s Companies A and E. During Morgan’s famous summer 1863 raid north of the Ohio River into Ohio and Indiana, the raiders passed through Livingston on their way to Albany, Kentucky, and for a day members of Companies A and E saw again a landscape they knew well. Morgan’s troopers cut a swath of destruction in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, but when they returned to Tennessee in late July, their commander was absent, having been captured and confined in the Ohio State Penitentiary, and many soldiers of Companies A and E were also captured and imprisoned temporarily. Morgan escaped in late November 1863 and found safety when he crossed back into Tennessee and stopped at Livingston on December 8. He never returned to the county after that and died less than a year later in Greenville, where he was surrounded and shot while attempting to evade capture again.