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By Robert H. Moore, II, August 14, 2009
Morgan's Second Raid Marker among others at the same site
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Dixie Highway East (U.S. 31W), on the left when traveling west. |
| | North of here, Morgan's Raiders destroyed two of the most important L & N R.R. trestles Dec. 28, 1862, rendering line impassable for two months. Circling this area, they returned to Tenn. on Jan, 2, 1863. In eleven days they destroyed $2,000,000 in . . . — — Map (db m223269) HM |
| On Boston Road (U.S. 62), on the right when traveling north. |
| | (Side One): Advancing Federals fired on Confederate troops led by Gen. John Hunt Morgan on Dec. 29, 1862, during a rear-guard action. Acquaintances Col. John Harlan and Col. Basil Duke fought on opposing sides. Wounded during the clash, Duke . . . — — Map (db m25152) HM |
| On Dixie Highway East (U.S. 31W), on the right when traveling west. |
| | In December 1862, Gen. John Hunt Morgan was sent by the Confederate command to shut down the L&N Railroad, thereby cutting off one of the Union's major supply lines. Morgan's target was one of the railroad's most vulnerable points, the trestles at . . . — — Map (db m25156) HM |
| On Dixie Highway West (U.S. 31W), on the right when traveling west. |
| | Gen. John Hunt Morgan's Raiders arrived in Elizabethtown on December 27, 1862, appearing on the brow of the hill that is now the City Cemetery. The main objective of the Christmas Raid was to burn two huge Louisville and Nashville Railroad trestles . . . — — Map (db m25159) HM |
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