On July 11, 1863, General Morgan's main column arrived in Dupont late in the evening after traveling approximately 35 miles that day. Most of the raiders camped at the bend of Camp Creek near the present-day school, while General Morgan spent the night at the Thomas Stout house. A local doctor's eight-year-old son, James Frank Lewis, was captured and held prisoner in the Mayfield Smokehouse, then released and returned home when he became homesick. Next door, Sally Trousdale taunted the raiders by flying two American flags from her porch. About two thousand hams were taken from the Mayfield Smokehouse, and the nearby Mayfield store was robbed of $1,600. Mayfield's daughter Josephine, a fiery redhead, screamed and yelled at the raiders for disturbing the peace, and Henry Snook, one of the raiders, was attracted to her and promised to return and marry her; after the war, they married and settled in Chicago. Local women baked biscuits all night, willingly or unwillingly. Morgan and his men departed early on July 12, and five hours later members of the Union cavalry arrived hungry, and the same Dupont residents cooked for them as well.