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The Lawrence Massacre (also known as Quantrill's Raid) was an attack during the American Civil War (1861–65) by Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerrilla group led by William Quantrill, on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas, killing around 150 men and boys.
Morgan's Raid (also the Calico Raid or Great Raid of 1863) was a diversionary incursion by Confederate cavalry into the Union states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia during the American Civil War. The raid took place from June 11 to July 26, 1863. It is named for the commander of the Confederate troops, Brigadier General John Hunt ...
Site of Morgan's surrender, sketched by Henry Howe from an 1886 photograph. Morgan encountered Capt. James Burbeck, one of Lisbon's militia commanders, along the road. [citation needed] Morgan convinced Burbeck to allow him to surrender his command, provided Burbick promised to take the sick and wounded soldiers and allow Morgan and his officers to be paroled so they could return home to Kentucky.
Mowery, David L., Cincinnati in the Civil War: The Union's Queen City. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2021. Riesenberg, Michael. "Cincinnati's Civil War Resources: Preparing for the Sesquicentennial Anniversary of the Civil War." Ohio Valley History 10#4 (2010): 46–65. Simms, Henry Harrison. Ohio Politics on the Eve of ...
During the first year of the war, he was a field officer, initiating several raids. He was an assistant to John Hunt Morgan, doing a preparatory raid (Hines' Raid) in advance of Morgan's Raid through the states of Indiana and Ohio, and after being captured with Morgan, organized their escape from the Ohio Penitentiary.
Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-1576-0. Simmons, Flora E. (1863). A complete account of the John Morgan raid through Indiana and Ohio, in July, 1863. self. Thomas, Edison H (1975). John Hunt Morgan and His Raiders. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-0214-6. U.S. War Department (1880).
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History of Ohio: The Civil War Era, 1850-1873, vol. 4 (1944) online, The most detailed scholarly history of the home front; Simms, Henry Harrison. Ohio Politics on the Eve of Conflict. (Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society, 1961). Smith, Lisa Marie. "Netta Taylor and the Divided Ohio Home Front, 1861–1865" (PhD Diss.