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"Morgan's calvery" Civil War Witnes Pens
Morgan’s revolution is important to history because many people died during the raid and many people were scared because Morgan and his men were killing an enormous amount of people as they went on their journey( Geib). John H. Morgan’s raid was a revolution because nobody in Tennessee wanted the raid to happen, In the text it says ‘The raid was ordered by General Braxton Bragg"(Geib) which means he was order to raid and had no choice. The reaction of Morgan's Raid had many peopole socked because Morgan hadn't gone on a raid in a long time and many people thought he was done raiding. "Morgan killed hundreds of innocent people was he went through Tennesse. Kentucky, Indidana, and Ohio" (Geib). “Morgn was a natural choice to command this raid, having conducted two similar cavalry operations in Kentucky in the past year. Without making his specific plans clear to his superiors, Morgan soon expanded both the size of his force and the target of its raid. Source crossing the Cumberland River in Kentucky on July 2, and the Ohio River on July 8th and 9th, he spent three weeks in indiana and Ohio" (Geib). The reaction of the people was all over the place because the text says’ Morgan took many large groups of men"(Geib).