One of Morgan's men : memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry /
John Marion Porter (1839-1898) grew up working at his family's farm and dry goods store in Butler County, Kentucky. The oldest of Reverend Nathaniel Porter's nine children, he was studying to become a lawyer when the Civil War began. As the son of a family of slave owners, Porter identifie...
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Table of Contents:
- To the military I submitted myself
- You have crowned yourselves with glory
- It was literally a leap in the dark
- We struck out on our own responsibility
- A perfect tornado of shots was fired at us
- It was a grand and imposing ovation
- The whiskey was still abundant
- The fame and glory of Morgan's command
- This was a hard-fought field
- Our march was cautious
- The scene was ludicrous and pitiful
- I was captured for the last time
- The days dragged slowly by
- With three days' rations, we started home.