John Hunt Morgan |John Hunt Morgan| John Hunt Morgan Engraving
by George Edward Perine (1837–85) June 1, 1825| |Died||September
4, 1864 |Place of burial||Lexington Cemetery| |Allegiance||
United States of America Confederate States of America
|Service/branch|| United States Army Confederate States Army
|Years of service||1846–1847 (USA) 1857–1861 (Kentucky Militia)
|Rank|| First Lieutenant(USA) Captain (Kentucky Militia)
Brigadier General (CSA) Morgan is best known for Morgan's Raid
when, in 1863, he and his men rode over 1,000 miles covering a
region from Tennessee, up through Kentucky, into Indiana and on
to southern Ohio. This would be the farthest north any uniformed
Confederate troops penetrated during the war. Early life and
career  John Hunt Morgan was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the
eldest of ten children of Calvin and Henrietta (Hunt) Morgan. He
was an uncle of geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan and a maternal
grandson of John Wesley Hunt, an early founder of Lexington,
Kentucky, and one of the first mil