Morgan’s Raid Route – The Deaths of Hysell and Hudson

Meigs County · Across from 38300 Bradbury Road/County Road 5, Middleport, OH, 45760 -- Entrance to Bradbury Cemetery’

Side A: General John Hunt Morgan led a force of 2,000 Confederate cavalrymen into Meigs County during a raid north of the Ohio River. More than 50,000 Union troops and mlitia had been in pursuit of Morgan across Ohio. Near this site on July 18, 1863, Holliday Hysell and Dr. William N. Hudson were shot and killed by Confederate soldiers. These were the only civilians killed in Meigs County during Morgan’s Raid. After suffering losses at Buffington Island, Morgan surrendered eight days later near West Point in Columbiana County. The surrender field was the northernmost point reached by Confederate forces during the Civil War. Side B: Same

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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