Buffington Island
Battlefield Preservation Foundation

Most accounts one reads about John H. Morgan's Indiana-Ohio Raid will mention that Morgan's command included four artillery pieces - two 3-inch Parrott rifles (also known as 10-pounder Parrotts) and a pair of 12-pounder howitzers, However, the 3-inch version of the Parrott was not manufactured until later in the war and the pair that Morgan had, captured from the Thirteenth Indiana Battery at the Battle of Hartsville, were actually earlier model 2.9-inch Parrotts. By the time

While not directly related to the Great Raid, Thomas Hines, one of Morgan's most trusted scouts, raided Indiana in June 1863 in an effort...

Confederate Brigadier General John H. Morgan’s 1,930 men are awakened from their disturbed slumber around 3:00 am. A thick fog had...