John Hunt Morgan and his raiders

Biography of John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864), son of Calvin C. Morgan and Henrietta Hunt, was born in Huntsville, Alabama but brought up in Lexington, Kentucky. He served with Kentucky troops during the Mexican War, and in 1847 married Rebecca Gratz Bruce. He served as a Confederate cavalry officer, chiefly effective as a raider and guerrilla fighter against the north, and died in battle on September 1864 near Greeneville, Tennessee.