Buffington Island
Battlefield Preservation Foundation

John H. Morgan's brother-in-law Basil Duke mentioned in his history of Morgan's cavalry that the command consisted of 2,460 men when they set out on the Indiana-Ohio Raid in late June or early July (depending on one's point of view about where the raid actually started). The accepted number of Confederates present at Buffington Island is 1,820 men (The Battle of Buffington Island Self-Guided Driving Tour brochure). Capturing accurate unit strengths, particularly when determin

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

George W. Cassell, a resident of central Kentucky, enlisted as a sergeant in the Confederate States Army on September 10, 1862 in...

Middleswart Cemetery There are several cemeteries in what is known as the Portland Bottoms, the flat area over which the Battle of Buffington Island took place (a more appropriate name for the battle would actually be Portland or Portland Bottoms since no fighting took place on the island). Separated by less than a mile, two of the Portland area cemeteries, Middleswart and Browning, are the final resting places for several Civil War veterans. Both cemeteries were in existence

Just one quarter mile south of the Battle of Richmond Visitor's Center in Madison County, Kentucky lies the Blue Grass Memorial Cemetery....