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| Who's Who of the Great Raid |
The following list represents the most notable participants in Morgan's Great Raid. Comments or suggestions for additions to this list can be forwarded to buffington@heidelberg.edu.
| CONFEDERATE | |
| Alston, Lt. Col. Robert | Gen. Morgan's adjutant and occasional editor of the Vidette, the field newspaper of Morgan's Raiders. Carried a flag of truce to the defenders of Lebanon, Ky. |
| Bennett, Jacob C. | Acquired a shovel while in prison, used to escape from the Ohio Penitentiary with Gen. Morgan. |
| Bowles, Lt. Col. James W. | Commander of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, unable to participate in the Great Raid. |
| Bowles, Dr.William A. | Leader of the Copperheads in Indiana, visited early in the raid by Thomas Hines to ascertain the potential of other copperheads revolting against their state government during the raid. |
| Bragg, Gen. Braxton | Commander of Army of the Tennessee and Gen. Morgan's superior. |
| Breckinridge, Col. W.C.P. | Commander of the 9th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, under Duke. |
| Buckner, Gen. | Commanded a small army in eastern Tennessee, to whose aid Gen. Morgan was sent, delaying his movements into Kentucky. |
| Byrnes, Capt. Edward | Commander of Gen. Morgan's artillery support unit. |
| Castleman, Capt. John Breckinridge | Second-in-command to Capt. Thomas Hines. |
| Chenault, Col. D.W. | Commander of the 11th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, under Johnson. Led the assault on and was killed at Tebb's Bend bridge. |
| Cluke, Col. Roy S. | Commander of the 8th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, under Johnson. |
| Davis, Capt. William J. | Commanded a detachment that carried out diversionary movements to the east of Louisville. |
| Duke, Basil | Former member of the Kentucky legislature, second-in-command to Gen. Morgan and commander of the 1st Brigade. Husband to Morgan's sister Henrietta. |
| Eastin, Lt. George | Commanded a detachment that carried out diversionary movements to the east of Louisville. |
| Ellsworth, George "Lightening" | Canadian telegraph operator under Gen. Morgan's command. |
| Enfield Rifle | The weapon of choice, especially with the barrel cut off, of Morgan's Raiders. |
| Glencoe | Gen. Morgan's thoroughbred gelding, received from Kentucky horse breeder Keene Richards. After Morgan's capture by Rue, Glencoe was taken by Shackleford and presented to Gen. Winfield Scott. |
| Grenfel, Col. George St. Leger | English mercenary |
| Grigsby, Col. J. Warren | Commander of the 6th Kentucky Regiment, under Duke. |
| Hines, Mrs. Nancy Sproule | Wife of Capt. Thomas Henry Hines |
| Hines, Capt. Thomas Henry | Escaped the Ohio Penitentiary with Gen. Morgan. |
| Hockersmith, James D. | Escaped the Ohio Penitentiary with Gen. Morgan. |
| Huffman, Lt. Col. J.M. | Commander of the 7th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, under Johnson. |
| Johnson, Col. Adam R. | Commander of the 2nd Brigade and the 10th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment. Escaped with about 300 men to West Virginia at a location above Buffington Island. |
| McGee, Gustavus S. | Escaped the Ohio Penitentiary with Gen. Morgan. |
| Merriwether, Capt. Clay | Led his company of the 10th Kentucky Regiment to Brandenburg to secure the ferries. |
| Morgan, Calvin | Gen. Morgan's younger brother and a member of his command. |
| Morgan, Charlton H. | Gen. Morgan's younger brother and a member of his command. |
| Morgan, Brig. Gen. John Hunt | Known as "The Thunderbolt of the Confederacy," "The Great Raider," "The Great Freebooter," "The Guerilla Chieftan," and "The King of Horse Thieves." |
| Morgan, Mrs. Martha "Mattie" Ready | Morgan's second wife. |
| Morgan, Col. Richard C. | Gen. Morgan's younger brother and commander of the 14th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, under Johnson. Exchanged cells with Gen. Morgan on the night of the escape from the Federal penitentiary at Columbus. |
| Morgan, Lieut. Tom | Gen. Morgan's younger brother and a member of his command, died of a bullet wound in Lebanon, Ky., during the raid. |
| Quirk, Capt. Tom | Commanded the scouts. Wounded crossing the Cumberland River, early in the Great Raid. |
| Ready, Lieut. Horace | "Mattie" Morgan's brother. Wounded during the Great Raid. |
| Sheldon, Ralph | Led the last charge of Morgan's Great Raid in a skirmish near Salineville, Ohio. Escaped the Ohio Penitentiary with Gen. Morgan. |
| Smith, Col. D. Howard | Commander of the 5th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, under Duke. |
| Taylor, Samuel B. | Nephew of Gen. ZacharyTaylor. Led his company of the 10th Kentucky Regiment to Brandenburg to secure the ferries. Scouted for Morgan in Kentucky and Cincinnati. Escaped the Ohio Penitentiary with Gen. Morgan. |
| Ward, Col. W.W. | Commander of the 9th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, under Duke. |
| Webber, Maj. Thomas B. | Acting commander of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, under Duke, in place of the injured Lt. Col. James W. Bowles. |
| Wheeler, Gen. Joseph | Gen. Morgan's immediate supervisor. |
| UNION | |
| Alice Dean | Union ferry at Brandenberg, Ky., used by Gen. Morgan to cross the Ohio River. Burned after the crossing. |
| Allegheny Belle | Union gunboat at Buffington Island. |
| Boyle, Gen. | In command of Union troops in Louisville, Ky. |
| Burbick, Cpt. James | Commander of a home guard unit from Lisbon, Ohio, to whom Morgan offered his surrender. |
| Burnside, Gen. Ambrose Everett | Commanded the Department of the Ohio and oversaw the entire pursuit of Morgan's Raiders during the Great Raid. |
| Camp Chase | Federal military prison at Columbus, Ohio, to which some of Morgan's officers were sent before being transferred to the federal penitentiary in Columbus. |
| Camp Douglas | Federal military prison in Chicago, to which Morgan's enlisted men were eventually sent. Built on land once owned by Stephen Douglas. |
| Camp Morton | Federal military prison in Indianapolis, to which Morgan's enlisted men were first sent. Due to overcrowding, they were sent on to Camp Douglas. |
| Collier, Col. James | Commander of the Steubenville Minute Men. |
| DeLand, Col. Charles V. | Commandant of Camp Douglas. |
| Garrard, Col. Israel | Commander of the 7th Ohio Cavalry. Accepted Duke's surrender at Buffington Island. |
| Hanson, Lt. Col. Charles | Commander of the 20th Kentucky Infantry at Lebanon, Ky. |
| Hayes, Col. Rutherford B. | Commander of the 23rd Ohio Regiment. Led his unit from Fayetteville to Gallipolis. His unit later collected more than 200 Confederate prisoners as they crossed the Ohio River into West Virginia. |
| Hobson, Gen. Edward Henry | Commanded the 2nd Brigade, Department of the Ohio. Pursued Gen. Morgan during the Great Raid, but later surrendered to Morgan at Cynthiana, Ky., in June 1864. |
| Ingomar | One of two Union transports that ferried the prisoners from Buffington Island to Cincinnati. |
| J.T. McCombs | Union ferry at Brandenberg, Ky., used by Gen. Morgan to cross the Ohio River. |
| Johnson's Island | Federal military prison in Sandusky Bay to which the officers captured at Buffington Island were sent, including Duke and Hines. They were at Johnson's Island for four days before being sent to the federal penitentiary at Columbus. |
| Judah, Maj. Gen. Henry Moses | Commanded the 2nd Division, Department of the Ohio. Pursued Gen. Morgan during the Great Raid. |
| Lincoln, Abraham | President of the United States, to whom "Mattie" Morgan sent letters asking for the release of her husband from the Federal penitentiary in Columbus. |
| Mason, Gen. John S. | Commandant of Camp Chase, Ohio. Oversaw Morgan's men in Federal penitentiary at Columbus. |
| Merion, Warden | Warden of Federal penitentiary in Columbus. |
| Moore, Col. Orlando H. | Commander of the 25th Michigan Infantry at Tebbs Bend, Ky. |
| Moose | Union gunboat at Buffington Island. |
| "Morgan's Mule" | A high sawhorse at Camp Douglas which prisoners who had broken rules would have to straddle for hours. |
| Morton, Gov. Oliver P. | Governor of Indiana |
| Prentice, George | Editor of Louisville Daily Journal. |
| Rosecrans, Gen. | Commander of the Army of the Cumberland, who lost to Bragg at Chickamauga, partially due to Burnside's delay caused by Morgan's Raid. |
| Rue, Maj. George W. | Of the Ninth Federal Kentucky Cavalry, accepted Gen. Morgan's surrender near West Point, Ohio. |
| Shackleford, Brig. Gen. James Murrell | Commanded the 1st Brigade, Army of the Ohio. Claimed he accepted surrender of Gen. Morgan at the end of the Great Raid. |
| Tod, Gov. David | Governor of Ohio who insisted Gen. Morgan and his officers were criminals rather than prisoners of war and sent them to the Ohio Penitentiary. |
| Wallace, Gen. Lew | Took command of Federal troops in Indianapolis during the raid. |
| Way, Maj. W.B. | Commander of the 9th Michigan Cavalry. With Rue, joined in the pursuit at Mingo on the last day of the raid. |
| Wolford, Col. Frank Lane | Commanded 1st Kentucky Cavalry, men from the 2nd and 7th Ohio Cavalry and 45th Ohio Mounted Infantry. Met the raiders crossing the Cumberland River. Pursued raiders to eventual capture point in Ohio. |
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