CDV photo of General and Mrs. Morgan. The General is shown seated in full Confederate uniform while his wife stands next to him wearing a heavy overcoat and bonnet with long ties. Image has some light spotting from age. Reverse has a blue tax stamp that covers the photographers imprint. “MORGAN AND LADY” is written in pencil across the top edge on the reverse.

John Hunt Morgan was born in Huntsville, Alabama on June 1, 1825. He was educated at Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky. During the Mexican War he saw action at Buena Vista as a 1^st Lieutenant with the 1^st Kentucky Infantry and was discharged in 1847. He returned to Lexington and went into the general merchandise business. In 1857 he raised a militia company known as the Lexington Rifles. When the Civil War broke out he joined the Confederate Army. On April 4, 1862 Morgan was commissioned Colonel of the 2^nd Kentucky Cavalry and he became a Brigadier General that December. Morgan led a series of raids into Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. During his most famous raid into Ohio in 1863 Morgan was captured at and held in the Ohio State Penitentiary from which he later escaped. In April of 1864 he assigned to command the Department of Southwest Virginia. On the morning of September 4, 1864 the house General was sleeping in was the target of a Union cavalry raid. General Morgan was shot and killed while trying to escape. General Morgan was the brother-in-law of Confederate Generals A. P. Hill and Basil Duke. He is buried in the Duke family plot in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky.

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