In the summer of 1863, smack in the middle of the Civil War, John Hunt Morgan led a Confederate raiding party of about 2,500 soldiers out of Tennessee. The unit traveled through Kentucky, across the Ohio River into enemy territory in the Midwest and, eventually, into the state of Ohio. Morgan’s Raid pushed well into the state before being subdued and captured, but the brazen invasion into enemy territory spread panic through the Union for several weeks.
On a see-your-breath Saturday in the heartland, there was a peaceful reenactment of Morgan’s Raid. It, too, was ultimately unsuccessful, but unsettling for a while to those who were being invaded.
