An
Illustrated timeline
Of
Morgan’s Christmas Raid
Through Hardin County
Dec. 1862 - jan. 1863
BY
Mrs. Riggs & Ms. Cooper’s Classes
At upton
1 confederate
GENERAL john hunt Morgan and 4,000 cavalry soldiers marched from Alexander,
tennessee to hardin county, Kentucky, to destroy the l & N railroad. This would keep the Union soldiers from
sending supplies over it.
2 They
burned the bridge at bacon creek below Upton.
3
The
Rebels made camp a few miles south of upton on Christmas night.
4
Capt. Tom quick made union soldiers
walking along the track at upton surrender by shooting over their heads.
5
Lightning ellsworth tapped into a
telegraph line and sent fake messages to union general boyle in Louisville
about Morgan’s troop size and movements.
