4 entries match your criteria.
Related Historical Markers
To better understand the relationship, study each marker in the order shown.
By Robert H. Moore, II, August 14, 2009
Morgan's Second Raid Marker among others at the same site
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| | 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 |
| | (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 |
| | 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 |
| | 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 |
Apr. 28, 2024