Join Kent Masterson Brown and Witnessing History’s First Army Corps Team as they follow the roads on which John Hunt Morgan and his commands rode, and to the battlefields where they fought, during their First and Fourth Great Kentucky Raids and during the 1862 Confederate invasion of Kentucky.

The Kentucky Civil War Roundtable and Kent Masterson Brown will host Part II of John Hunt Morgan And His Great Kentucky Raids. The bus will travel all the way to just North of Columbia, Kentucky where it will turn around and approach the Green River Bridge as Morgan’s Division did on July 4, 1863 at the outset of his Great Raid. We will walk through the site of the Battle of Tebb’s Bend, probably Morgan’s bloodiest engagement. We will visit the two-story log tavern that served as one of Morgan’s brigade hospitals and then board the busses for Lebanon, Kentucky where we will walk through the old L&N Railroad yards following Morgan’s attack against the 20th Kentucky Union Infantry that was barricaded in the passenger and freight station on July 5, 1863.

You will see where Morgan’s brother, Thomas, was killed in action and buried. The bus will then proceed to Bardstown where we will have lunch at the Old Talbott Tavern. From Bardstown we will proceed through Boston on the Rolling Fork River where Basil Duke was badly wounded on the Christmas Raid and we will arrive at the Ohio River crossing site of Morgan’s Division at Brandenburg, Kentucky. We will visit Morgan’s headquarters on the bluff overlooking the Ohio River and then visit the site where Morgan crossed his division and then burned the Alice Dean steamboat that he used in making the crossing. We will return to Lexington by way of the trestles of the L&N Railroad that Morgan destroyed during his famous Christmas Raid.

JOHN HUNT MORGAN AND HIS GREAT KENTUCKY RAIDS, PART II

Tour Fee: $125.00