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The Longest Raid of the Civil War: Little-Known & Untold Stories of Morgan's Raid into Kentucky, Indiana & Ohio
written by Lester V. Horwitz
Studio : Farmcourt Publishing
by Farmcourt Publishing
Publisher : Farmcourt Publishing
Released : 2001-12
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780967026732
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 19 reviews)
List Price : $29.95
Our Price : $21.56
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Brilliant |
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I loved this book, I've been writing a historical based fictional noval about people in the Civil War, who fight against Morgan's raid, although the noval's foccus isn't primarily on General Morgan, nonetheless I bought this book a few months back to learn more of him and his famous army. I have to say it fasinated me, all these amazing and sad stories that most of us will never know unless you're writing a noval about it. I thank God that I'm a book worm. ^_^ And hey, it have cost me a little but it was sure worth it. |
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How Violence is Folly Against the State |
During the early months of 1861, southern states seceded from the union. After Fort Sumter surrendered to Confederate General Beauregard on April 14, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas joined in secession from the northern states. The resulting fighting between the states became known as the Civil War. Kentucky, a slave state, did not secede. Many were pro-Confederate however. Jefferson Davis was from Kentucky, but Lincoln too was born there.
The battles between the North and South for the hearts of Ken-tuck-ee (Dark and Dangerous Ground) heated up in 1862. Initially, Confederate General Johnston controlled Kentucky with forces at Bowling Green and at Columbus. But Union General Thomas took eastern Kentucky in January 1862 where the south had less sympathy among the locals. Then by February 1862, Johnston had lost most of Kentucky and western Tennessee to Buell's Army of the Ohio. Johnston countered at Shiloh and died fighting Grant, who was reinforced by Buell. So many men died on both sides (25,000) that Grant and Buell were in shock. Grant got drunk and Buell withdrew to Nashville to ready an attack on Chattanooga. With Johnston dead, the Confederates were led by Braxton Bragg.
Bragg laid a campaign to take back Kentucky and made his way toward Louisville, but Buell stopped him at Perryville on October 8th. Buell was replaced with General Rosecrans and took the Union troops out of Nashville to fight Bragg at Stone's River (or Murfreesboro) from Dec 31 of 1982 until Jan 3, 1983. Bragg retreated to Chattanooga.
On January 1st, 1863 Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that said all slave owners could keep their slaves if they stayed with the union. Hardly emancipating! But most people never read past the title and most people thought that Lincoln had freed the slaves, so slaves took off and non-slaves helped them to freedom. Then draft slavery was implemented by the south - all white males aged 18 to 35 were declared temporary slaves of the Confederate army for three years. A curse if there ever was one!
Taking Kentucky was still the aim of Chattanooga-based Bragg, but first he needed to get out of Chattanooga and move to a more easily defended position with room to maneuver. To this end he appointed Alabama-born and Kentucky-raised General John Hunt Morgan to head a 2,000-man raid into Ohio to disrupt supply lines and communications to Union soldiers, while leading them to believe that they were under attack so that Rosecran's forces would be distracted down in Chattanooga. Morgan and his men managed to do over $500,000 worth of damage before getting captured and sent to prison. Morgan escaped from prison and was killed a year later.
Bragg fell back from Chattanooga and Rosecrans moved in. Now it was Rosecrans rather than Bragg who was bogged down in Chattanooga with no room to maneuver. Bragg held Chattanooga under seige until Grant replaced Rosecrans in October with Thomas. The result was the Battle of Chattanooga, after which Jefferson Davis retired Bragg and replaced him with Johnston.
But Morgan's raid was successful in its aim to allow Bragg to move out of Chattanooga and later pin down Rosecrans there. [...] |
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Excellent presentation. I was finished before I knew it. |
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Quibbles about English usage aside, Mr. Horwitz has done a wonderful job in gathering obscurities concerning Morgan's Raid and organizing them into an entertaining account of the Civil War military action. I found it particularly interesting because it happened in many areas that I'm personally familiar with, living in the Cincinnati area and being familiar with the southeastern Ohio area. This is the kind of book that makes learning your history, (local or national,) a painless process. |
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The Greatest Read of the longest raid |
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Horwitz brings the civil war to life in this book. The Author captivates the reader by putting this "insignificant raid",(when compared to major battles at Gettysburg and Vicksburg) on the front porch and in the kitchens of those hoosiers and buckeyes who had thought the war was very far away. Excellently covers the civilians through letters and diarys, as well as the military actions of the two sides. A must read for any student of csa cavalry, or anyone with a taste for an exciting account of a part of our history. |
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Buy this one for your personal library!! |
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I love this book because it is so easy to read and one of those books you can't put down until completed because it captivates your interest. I was doing my family history concerning the TAYLOR family and was so intriqued by the book that I bought it and invited the author to our family reunion to share Morgan and his adventures. This is a must have book that inspires the basic Civil War buff and the knowledgeable historian also. The style of the writer makes it enjoyable for the reader. It is like reading a great novel, but accurately depicting the events. |
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