“The Rebels are coming!” That was the cry in July 1863 when General John Hunt Morgan and his guerrilla force of 2,500 Confederate cavalry terrorized towns and farms in Ohio and Indiana. Best known as Morgan’s Raid, it covered over 1,000 miles through Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.

This is the true story about Morgan’s most famous raid. Readers will ride along with the cavalry on this treacherous journey of high adventure. Many of these stories have never been published before about one of the South’s most dashing, daring and dynamic cavalry leaders — and the men who were willing to follow him into hell.

After five years of writing and fifteen years of research, Lester Horwitz chronicles the first book-length account of this legendary raid in The Longest Raid of the Civil War. Many of the descendants of people who were raided as well as the descendants of the men who rode with Morgan have finally provided the most complete accounting of what really happened. In addition to the more than 300 personal stories, this book includes:

• Battlefield Maps of Corydon and Buffington Island
• Military Overviews of both battles
• 39 County Maps tracing the raiders’ route
• 180 Historic Photos
• The American Presidents who met Morgan on the battlefield
• The U.S. Navy’s role in Morgan’s Raid
• 528 pages include 1,500 Endnotes and Index; 68 Chapters

Library of Congress Card Number: 99-72224

Hard Cover: ISBN  09670267-25

Soft Cover:  ISBN  09670267-33

Copyright © 1999 Lester V. Horwitz

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

Published in the United States by Farmcourt Publishing, Inc.

P.O. Box 42789, Cincinnati, OH 45242-0789