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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 Dixie Highway East (U.S. 31W). |
| | Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan on his second raid into Kentucky, with 3,900 men, was met by 652 Union troops under Lt. Col. H.S. Smith, Dec. 27, 1862. Object of raid was destruction of L & N R.R. main artery for U.S.A. troop movement south. . . . — — Map (db m223266) 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 |
May. 5, 2024