Podcast appearances and mentions of john hunt morgan

In Episode 181 we talk the Beefsteak raid and the death of John Hunt Morgan. https://cwweeklypod.wixsite.com/my-site *Mobile capability through the app Spaces by Wix. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CWweeklypod --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/civil-war-weekly/support

In Episode 172 we cover some odds and ends. John Hunt Morgan raids into Kentucky again, Joseph Mower operates in Arkansas, and the USS Kearsarge will duel with the CSS Alabama. https://cwweeklypod.wixsite.com/my-site *Mobile capability through the app Spaces by Wix. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CWweeklypod --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/civil-war-weekly/support

We have five battles on this week's episode starting off on July 19th, 1863 with the battle of Buffington Island where Morgan's raid is continuing, and it was also the largest battle in Ohio during the war. Next, Lee continues his retreat from Gettysburg at Manassas Gap on July 23rd as the Union tries to prevent Lee from passing the gap. The battles of Big Mound and Dead Buffalo Lake were fought between Union and Indian forces with the battle of Big Mound consisting of the largest forces ever assembled to fight the Indians. Finally, at Salineville on July 26th, John Hunt Morgan's raid finally comes to an end. This is farthest north a Confederate States Army force saw action.Consider checking out our brand new podcast, According To Wikipedia where we read random and popular Wikipedia pages so you don't have to! Click the link below!https://www.spreaker.com/show/according-to-wikipedia

Matthew Atkinson, Gettysburg National Military Park Known today as one of the great cavalry raiders, Morgan struck fear among the Northern population wherever his command roamed. His swift and daring raids across Kentucky and Ohio are some of the most daring undertakings during the Civil War. Join us for a lecture featuring romance, battle, prison escape, and even bank robberies.   Support the Show by:  Becoming a Patron- https://www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg  Grabbing some merch- https://www.addressinggettysburg.com/shop  Getting a book- https://www.addressinggettysburg.com/books  Joining our book club. Email addressinggettysburgbookclub@gmail.com     Supporting Our Sponsors:   Mike Scott Voice- https://www.mikescottvoice.com  Seminary Ridge Museum- https://www.seminaryridgemuseum.org/  For the Historian- Mention us for 20% off retail sales (in store) plus free shipping (online)- https://www.forthehistorian.com  The Badgemaker- https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com  Civil War Trails- https://www.civilwartrails.com  Bantam Roasters (formerly 82 Cafe) Use "HANCOCK" for 10% off your order https://www.raggededgerc.com/  HistoryFix- Use promo code "GETTYSBURG" when you sign up and receive $5 off your first year's subscription at https://www.historyfix.com    Buy Billy Webster's Music- Billy Webster arranged and performed the rendition of "Garryowen" that you hear at the end of the show. https://billysongs.com     Music possibly by:  "Garryowen" by Billy Webster  Camp Chase Fifes & Drums and our website is https://www.campchasefifesanddrums.org  California Consolidated Drum Band check them out here: https://www.facebook.com/CCDrumBand    Brass Band Music courtesy of the Federal City Brass Band  Kevin MacLeod www.incompetech.com

In Episode 69 we have two raids by Confederate cavalry, one under John Hunt Morgan and one under Nathan Bedford Forrest. We also have naval action on the Yazoo River. https://cwweeklypod.wixsite.com/my-site Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CWweeklypod Venmo: @Timothy-Patrick-48 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/civil-war-weekly/support

We've had a cavalry theme for the last couple epsiodes so we figure why not stick with that! This week, we discuss Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, one of the more colorful characters of the Civil War. 

Today we tell the story of the man who led the most successful Confederate raid on American territory during the Civil War, leading his men into battle throughout Indiana and Ohio.  Afterwards, General John Hunt Morgan met his end at the hands of Union soldiers in Greeneville, Tennessee. You can subscribe to the Stories podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Goodpods, RadioPublic, Audacy, Audible or on your own favorite podcast app.

This is the story of how a small band of Yankees held off several waves of John Morgan's battle hardened raiders. More on Tebbs Bend Here: http://www.tebbsbend.org/https://www.instagram.com/tebbs_bend_battlefield63/Checkout part 2 of last month's episode here: https://youtu.be/4PuK_6zfxa8Music is graciously provided by Craig Duncan.This show is made possible by the support of our sponsors. Please check them out below.The Badge Maker, proudly carrying affordable, USA made products for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/Civil War Trails is the world's largest 'Open Air Museum' offering over 1,350 sites across six states. Paddle to Frederick Douglass's birthplace, follow the Gettysburg Campaign turn-by-turn in your car, or hike to mountain tops where long forgotten earthworks and artillery positions await you. Follow Civil War Trails and create some history of your own. www.civilwartrails.org Support the show:(The podcast receives monetary compensation from these options.)Make a one time donation of any amount here: https://www.paypal.me/supportuntoldCWMake a monthly payment through Patreon and get the most up to date news on the podcast! Also, if you choose the 2,3, or 4 tier, you'll be able to ask the experts questions ahead of time!https://www.patreon.com/user?u=51151470&fan_landing=trueCheck out Gentleman's Box! Get all the tools you need as a gentleman delivered to your door! From cuff links, to cologne, to fitness gear, they have it all!http://imp.i121497.net/KaPv7You can also support us by using Instacart! Hauling groceries can be a thing of the past! Have all your groceries delivered to your doorstep. Use the link below to start an account and you will be supporting this show at no extra cost to you!https://instacart.oloiyb.net/PPVYzCheck us out on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube:https://www.facebook.com/untoldcivilwar/ https://www.instagram.com/untold_civil_war/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMMWxeF5zojtN8_NeWtyULw?view_as=subscriberSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=51151470&fan_landing=true)

Join myself and Darryl Smith of Walking With History LLC as we discuss two untold battles on the often forgotten Kentucky Front! Learn more about Darryl Smith here: http://www.walkingwithhistory.com/guide2.html   Music is graciously provided by Craig Duncan: http://www.craigduncan.net/This show is made possible by the support of The Badge Maker. Please check out his wares and improve your Civil War impression! https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/Support the show:(The podcast receives monetary compensation from these options.)Make a monthly payment through Patreon and get the most up to date news on the podcast! Also, if you choose the 2,3, or 4 tier, you’ll be able to ask the experts questions ahead of time!https://www.patreon.com/user?u=51151470&fan_landing=trueUse the code untoldcivilwar when downloading the smartphone app, Gettysburg: A Nation Divided.Instructions in the link below:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmMJ2SuTMZsAlready downloaded the app? Check out Gentleman’s Box! Get all the tools you need as a gentleman delivered to your door! From cuff links, to cologne, to fitness gear, they have it all!http://imp.i121497.net/KaPv7You can also support us by using Instacart! Hauling groceries can be a thing of the past! Have all your groceries delivered to your doorstep. Use the link below to start an account and you will be supporting this show at no extra cost to you!https://instacart.oloiyb.net/PPVYzCheck us out on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube:https://www.facebook.com/untoldcivilwar/ https://www.instagram.com/untold_civil_war/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMMWxeF5zojtN8_NeWtyULw?view_as=subscriber

Join me for episode 3 as we explore a family legend tied to an heirloom clock. To uncover the roots of this story, we'll examine the associated timeline, complicated ancestral context, and the perspective of the storyteller. Also, if you don't know anything about John Hunt Morgan, we'll give you a little history lesson about this Civil War Confederate General. As always, episode notes are available on my website: genealogyliteracy.com/BloodRoot

The novel begins in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1859. After saving John Hunt Morgan from a puma attack, fifteen-year-old farm boy Will Crump joins Hunt’s militia, the Lexington Rifles. Morgan mentors Will and enrolls him in the local university, where he hopes to study law. As tensions rise between the North and South, Will is torn […] The post ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: Book 1- The Clouds of War by Michael Ross appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

The novel begins in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1859. After saving John Hunt Morgan from a puma attack, fifteen-year-old farm boy Will Crump joins Hunt’s militia, the Lexington Rifles. Morgan mentors Will and enrolls him in the local university, where he hopes to study law. As tensions rise between the North and South, Will is torn […] The post ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: Book 1- The Clouds of War by Michael Ross appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Date: November 9, 1987 Speaker: James Ramage Topic: John Hunt Morgan - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

Date: Jan. 8, 1959 Speaker: Hubert H. Hawkins Topic: John Hunt Morgan and his Raid Across the Ohio Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

The very first ironclad ship built by the Union Navy in the Civil War was called The Monitor. It revolutionized the way battleships were built. Jonathan White (Christopher Newport University) is the co-author of “Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War.” Civil War buffs pride themselves on knowing the great battles of the war. But what about the fighting that took place away from battlefields? John Matsui (Virginia Military Institute) says that guerilla fighting during the Civil War challenged the rules of warfare. Civil War monuments and reenactments often prop up popular myths, instead of reflecting an accurate history. Take Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan, for example. Stephen Rockenbach (Virginia State University) says Morgan killed unionist farmers in Indiana, but today he’s celebrated as a dashing cavalryman. Some of the country’s most eminent Civil War scholars including James Robertson and William C. Davis (Virginia Tech), and equine specialist John M. Bowen discuss the forgotten elements of the conflict.

Rebel Bulldog tells the story of Preston Davidson, a Northerner who fought for the Confederacy, and his family who lived in Indiana and Virginia. It is a story that examines antebellum religion, education, reform, and politics, and how they affected the identity of not just one young man, but of a nation caught up in a civil war. Furthermore, it discusses how a native-born Hoosier reached the decision to fight for the South, while detailing a unique war experience and the postwar life of a proud Rebel who returned to the North after the guns fell silent and tried to remake his life in a very different state and nation than the ones he had left in 1860.The book uses not just Preston s story, but that of his family as a lens to help us glimpse the past. Preston s paternal family had strong ties to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, his grandfather was a prominent Presbyterian minister, and family members studied at and helped to lead Lexington, Virginia s Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). The maternal side of Preston s family tree included some of the most important Whig politicians in Indiana s young history, including his other grandfather, Governor Noah Noble. Preston s parents helped found Indianapolis s Second Presbyterian Church, and were married by the congregation s newly named minister, Henry Ward Beecher. It was through these connections that Preston and his siblings met Beecher s sister, Harriet, as well as interact with an elderly former slave of their great-grandfather Noble (whom the governor had brought to Indiana to freedom), a man known around Indianapolis as Uncle Tom.Committed to faith, education, and community, Preston and his elder brother, Dorman, were enrolled by their father in Ovid Butler s North Western Christian University as part of the second entering class (1856 57). However, with rising sectional tensions, the boys' father, Alexander Davidson (himself to be a leader in the Constitutional Union Party), decided that both of his sons also needed to spend time in Southern schools of higher education. Dorman attended the Virginia Military Institute, only to come home in the wake of John Brown s raid on Harpers Ferry. Preston, undaunted by the prospect of war, went to his father s alma mater, Washington College. He was there to witness the election of 1860, Virginia s secession, and, despite his father s protests, it was there that Preston enlisted alongside his cousins in the cause of the Confederacy.Preston served for the duration of the conflict, rising from the rank of private to lieutenant, surviving multiple wounding, the deaths of friends and family members, and the accusation (which helped lead to his eventual court-martial) that despite his service he was not really loyal to the South. After the war, he returned to Indianapolis, where he re-encountered the family he had left behind (including Dorman, who served briefly in the midst of John Hunt Morgan s raid) and sought to make sense of the new America, one without slavery, that was rising out of the ashes of war.Davidson s story is one that delves into the human experience on multiple levels, asks us to reconsider what we think we know of the Civil War, and complicates, while it complements the existing literature. It is a story that perhaps could only have happened in Indiana.Jason S. Lantzer is the author of three books, Prohibition is Here to Stay: The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in America, Interpreting the Prohibition Era at Museums and Historic Sites, and Rebel Bulldog: The Story of One Family, Two States, and the Civil War. He is a historian who looks at the intersection of religion, politics, and law in American culture, he holds three degrees from Indiana University and currently serves as the assistant director of Butler University's Honors Program. You can follow him on Twitter at @HistProfDad.

Panel Chairs: Anna Leshchenko and Deborah Ziska Lara Hall, M.A., "In Lieu of Objectivity: Defining Advocacy in the New Museum” (starting at 0:01:34) Mariko Kageyama, M.S., J.D., "Legal, Equitable, and Ethical Perspectives on Heritage in Museums” (starting at 0:17:30) Jillian Hartley, Ph.D., “Commemorating the Civil War in Border States: The Case of John Hunt Morgan” (starting at 0:35:39) This recording is audio only and has been edited to remove false starts, technical glitches, and lengthy silences. Video version (with visual aids) is available here: https://youtu.be/bF47gZNRkNI

Thrown from his horse and kicked in the head as he tried to answer his brothers frantic calls, for two weeks the 8 year old boy lay in a coma, teetering on the edge of life and death. When he eventually regained consciousness, and the bandages were removed he had lost sight in one of his eyes. Though the blindness would eventually fade, his fear of the powerful animal would not. Distrustful of horses for the rest of his life in many senses Benjamin Grierson was perhaps one of the most unlikely of soldiers, let alone a Calvary Officer. Yet, with the drums of war now beating, and the bonds of union between the states shattered, the music teacher from Jacksonville, Illinois, deeply in debt, with his wife and children living with his parents, enlisted as an unpaid aid to Major General Benjamin Prentiss. It was here that he flourished, rising first to the rank of Major, and then Colonel of the 6th Illinois Calvary. Now, with the resignation of General Charles Hamilton, and his eyes set on the last Confederate Stronghold along the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, General Ulysses S. Grant, looked to Grierson to pave the path to it. Up until this point it had seemed that the Union Calvary Commanders weren’t up to the tasks place in front of them. They were no match for giants of the Confederacy. With nicknames like “The Wizard of the Saddle”, “The Knight of the Golden Spur” and “Thunderbolt”, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Jeb Stuart and John Hunt Morgan dominated the battlefields against their counterparts. Yet, on April 17th, 1863 the 36 year old Grierson, with the 6th and 7th Illinois Calvary, the 2nd Iowa Calvary and a battery of 6 two pounders, launched a raid that would prove him every bit the equal of those great strategic minds in the South. Having written to his wife, “You must not be alarmed should you not hear from me inside a month… my movements are to aid a great movement which is to take place at a distant point or points. You will understand what I refer to.” he would carry with him a compass and a cotton map to guide him and a report made by a Union Loyalist in Mississippi, containing travel routes, locations of Confederate depots and warehouses and the loyalties of the people throughout the State. He knew that he and his troops were to lose no time. There Grierson and his men covered thirty miles in their first day, before splitting to cross the Tallahatchee River at three different points by the next morning. Perhaps, had General Forrest not been putting down the raids of Colonel Abel Streight in Alabama he could have offered resistance to Grierson’s efforts, perhaps even meeting him measure for measure. But he was and the Union Calvary pushed forward, with the efforts of other Confederate Calvary Commanders ultimately unsuccessful against him. Each and every step of the way he hardened his men, pushing them to the brink, often only eating one meal a day as they continued undaunted, all efforts by the Confederacy to oppose him ultimately lacking. General Wirt Adams, one point would write to Lieutenant General John Pemberton, commander of the Vicksburg Garrison, declaring, “During the last twenty-four hours of their march in this state they traveled at a sweeping gallop, the numerous stolen horses previously collected furnishing them fresh relays. I found it impossible to my great mortification and regret to overhaul them.” Another Confederal Calvary Commander, Colonel Robert Richardson would declare, “We had forces enough to have captured and destroyed him but his movements were so rapid and uncertain of aim we could not concentrate our scattered forces.” By the time the raiders rode into Baton Rouge on May 2nd, Vicksburg was only a push away from falling. Pemberton had already dispatched an entire division to protect the Vicksburg-Jackson Railway line from Grierson’s assaults, as stories of the size of his force grew. In their last assault, they had pushed forward for 28 hours straight without food, sleep or even the briefest of rest as they covered about 76 miles. In 17 days over 600 miles were covered, 2 railway lines were disabled, with over 50 miles of the railway destroyed, over 100 confederates were killed or wounded, another 500 were captured along with a thousand horses and mules. With the lose of less than 30 men, three dead, seven wounded, five too sick to carry on and nine missing, he had, according to General William Tecumseh Sherman, launched “the most brilliant expedition of the war.” A short time later when General Grant would join Sherman to take Vicksburg, they would find the Confederacy spread too thin to mount any real resistance. Grierson, who often shunned the spotlight, would, to his chagrin, become a national hero if but for a short time. Having found his calling he would remain in the military after the war. Stationed in the West, the commander of an African American regiment it would largely be his attitude that would be his undoing. Considered a fair and consistent man, he was not only fiercely protective for his regiment, but also a constant advocate for them in a time when many didn’t believe they should be serving. Seen as too sympathetic in his dealings with Native Americans, arguing in favor of honoring treaties rather than war, it made him an unpopular figure in the west. A firm opponent of total war, though his raids were quick and decisive he would refuse to commit his troops to anything he considered having to high of a casualty rate, nor would he destroy civilian farms, or pillage and plunder private citizens. For him there were limits, and it would be his undoing before he faded into the obscure, eventually retiring in 1890, two years after the death of his wife Alice and two months after being promoted to Brigadier General.