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Guide to the Jane Lewis: Morgan's Men's Reunions Photographic Collection, ca. 1911
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Guide to the Jane Lewis: Morgan's Men's Reunions Photographic Collection, ca. 1911
Collection number: PA56M7
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Audio-Visual Archives
Special Collections
University of Kentucky
Margaret I. King Library
Lexington, KY 40506-0039
Phone: (859) 257-2654
Fax: (859) 257-6311
Email: sclref@lsv.uky.edu
URL: http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/libpage.php?lweb_id=391&llib_id=13
Processed by: Staff, Christine Reiss Wysocki
Date Completed: 2003
Encoded by: Christian Trombetta
Copyright 2005 University of Kentucky. All Rights Reserved.
Guide to the Jane Lewis: Morgan's Men's Reunions Photographic Collection,
PA56M7
Lewis, Jane
.25 cu. ft. (1 box): 5 items
The materials are in English.
University of Kentucky Special Collections
Lexington, Kentucky 40506
ca. 1911
Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
Copyright has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky.
[Identification of item], Guide to the Jane Lewis: Morgan's Men's Reunions Photographic Collection, PA56M7, Special Collections, University of Kentucky.
Confederate States of America. Army. Morgan's Cavalry Division
Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864
Morgan's Mounted Volunteers
Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan served in the Confederate army alongside General Braxton Bragg. Having learned horsemanship as a child on a farm in Fayette County, Kentucky, Morgan was called "Thunderbolt of the Confederacy" by Southern sympathizers and "King of Horse Thieves" by Northern sympathizers. Morgan centered his raids in Kentucky, using unconventional military tactics like civilian assistance in his campaigns. Morgan died September 4, 1864.
When John Hunt Morgan was reinterred in Lexington, Kentucky, April 17, 1868, the surviving members of Morgan's command formed The Morgan's Men Association. Morgan's Men pledged lifelong fidelity to one another and committed themselves to the memory of their esteemed General. Some prominent members of The Morgan's Men Association include Kentucky Governor James McCreary, Lt. Governor James E. Cantrill, Dr. John A. Lewis, Col. D. Howard Smith, and Brigadier General Basil W. Duke.
The Jane Lewis: Morgan's Men's Reunions Photographic Collection, ca. 1911 consists of five photostat copies made in 1956 of images owned and retained by Jane Lewis. The images document reunions of Morgan's Men at Park Hill (near Carlisle, Kentucky), Washington, D.C., and Olympia Spring, Kentucky. The original photographic collection was not donated to the University of Kentucky, and Special Collections has no knowledge of the collection's current location.
Related Material
Butler, Lorine L. John Morgan and his men. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1960.
Holland, Cecil F. Morgan and his raiders: a biography of the Confederate General. New York: Macmillan Co., 1943.
Hunt-Morgan Deposit Photographic Collection, 1784-1949, PA96M3, Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Hunt-Morgan Family Papers, 1854-1899, 1F56M-239 reel of microfilm, Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Ramage, James A. Rebel Raider: The Life Of General John Hunt Morgan. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.
Stone, Henry L. Morgan's Men: A Narrative of Personal Experience.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries. 25 Nov. 2003
Swiggett, Howard. The rebel raider; a life of John Hunt Morgan. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1934.
Horwitz, Lester V.
"The Longest Raid of the Civil War."
25 November 2003.
Container List
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"Parade Day of the unveiling of the monument to General John Hunt Morgen"; General Bennett H. Young and John D. Lewis are noted on the back as being the two men in front,
Photostat
1911
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"Parade Day of the unveiling of the monument to General John Hunt Morgan"; noted on back,
Photostat
1911
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"Morgan's Men at annual reunion at Olympia Springs, KY, sometime before 1917"; noted on back; collection contains both a positive and negative photostat,
Photostat
[n.d.]
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"Morgan's Men on a sightseeing tour of Washington, DC"; noted on back; collection contains both a positive and negative photostat,
Photostat
[n.d.]
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"Reunion of Morgan's Men at Park Hill, near Carlisle, KY"; noted on back; collection contains both a positive and negative photostat,
Photostat
[n.d.]
Guide to the Jane Lewis: Morgan's Men's Reunions Photographic Collection,