"The first full biography of the famous Confederate cavalry leader from Kentucky. It provides fresh, unpublished information on all aspects of Morgan's life and furnishes a new perspective on the Civil War. In a highly original interpretation, Ramage portrays Morgan as a revolutionary guerrilla chief. Using the tactics of guerrilla war and making his own rules, Morgan terrorized federal provost marshals in an independent campaign to protect Confederate sympathizers in Kentucky. He killed pickets and used the enemy uniform as a disguise, frequently masquerading as a Union officer. Employing civilians in the fighting, he set off a cycle of escalating violence which culminated in an unauthorized policy of retaliation by his command on the property of Union civilians. To many southerners, Morgan became the prime model of a popular movement for guerrilla warfare that led to the Partisan Ranger Act. For Confederates he was the ideal romantic cavalier, the "Francis Marion of the War," and they make him a folk hero who was especially adored by women. Discerning fact from folklore, Ramage describes Morgan's strengths and weaknesses and suggests that excessive dependence on his war bride contributed to his declining success. The author throws new light on the Indiana-Ohio Raid and the suspenseful escape from the Ohio Penitentiary and unravels the mysteries around Morgan's death in Greeneville, Tennessee. Rebel Raider also shows how in the popular mind John Hunt Morgan was deified as a symbol of the Lost Cause.
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John Hunt Morgan....This name stirred up the passion of both Northerners and Southerners, and in his biography of the General, James Ramage does an excellent job in telling us why. The Morgan in Ramage's biography comes across to us the readers, as not very religious...deeply rooted in the Southern lifestyle of the times, and as a careful soldier. I found two Morgan's in the book...The Morgan who was at his most successful after the period of his first wife's death, and the Morgan who seems to lose interest in the war after his second marriage, when failure would always seem to bear its ugly head whenever the General attempted to do anything. Ramage has done a good deal of research, rooting out letters to and from the General, with special emphasis on Morgan's relationship with his second wife. This research helps us to understand the transformation of Morgan as the war went on, and helps the reader to ultimately understand this diverse per! sonality of our great internal conflict. The chapter on the death of Morgan is probably the best in the book, as Ramage tries to put down the various stories and myths that have cropped up over the years. All in all, I found Ramage's work a good read, and I recommend it to all Civil War enthusiasts.
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I had searched through a lot of website information for Morgan's Raiders and was looking for a "beginning to end" book on this story. This book surpassed my expectations in getting the historical information along with the overall mood of the time. General Morgan was a very dashing figure and this helps to sort out the truth of many tales of the time. I would recommend this book highly to anyone who wants the whole story.
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This is a very short but reasonably complete history of General John Hunt Morgan's raid into Indiana until his capture in Ohio. It is based primarily on Basil Duke's history of the raid (Duke was Morgan's brother-in-law and fellow confederate officer).
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It was the eight day of January, 1864, and sleigh bells rang in the crisp morning air; two inches of fresh snow covered the roofs and sidewalks, and horsedrawn sleighs glided smoothly through the broad, level streets of Richmond, the Confederate capital. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
partisan act, undated clipping, triad system, partisan rangers, undated article, guerrilla chief, dismounted men, typed copy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, John Hunt Morgan, John Morgan, Main Street, Civil War, Great Raid, Kirby Smith, State Guard, Mount Sterling, Ohio River, Cumberland River, General Morgan, South Carolina, Basil Duke, Bowling Green, Bulls Gap, Cave City, Green River, Home Guards, New Orleans, North Carolina, President Davis, American Revolution, Buena Vista, Lexington Rifles New!
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It was the eight day of January, 1864, and sleigh bells rang in the crisp morning air; two inches of fresh snow covered the roofs and sidewalks, and horsedrawn sleighs glided smoothly through the broad, level streets of Richmond, the Confederate capital. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
partisan act, undated clipping, triad system, partisan rangers, undated article, guerrilla chief, dismounted men, typed copy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, John Hunt Morgan, John Morgan, Main Street, Civil War, Great Raid, Kirby Smith, State Guard, Mount Sterling, Ohio River, Cumberland River, General Morgan, South Carolina, Basil Duke, Bowling Green, Bulls Gap, Cave City, Green River, Home Guards, New Orleans, North Carolina, President Davis, American Revolution, Buena Vista, Lexington Rifles New!
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- The Civil War in Kentucky by Kent Masterton Brown on page 101, page 268, and Back Matter
- Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood: Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid (Southern Biography) by James C. Klotter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- For Honor, Glory, and Union: The Mexican and Civil War Letters of Brig. Gen. William Haines Lytle by William Haines Lytle in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Shades of Blue and Gray: An Introductory Military History of the Civil War (SHADES OF BLUE & GRAY) by Herman Hattaway on page 180
- Brothers In Gray: The Civil War Letters Of The Pierson Family by Thomas W. Cutrer on page 115
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