"The first full biography of the famous Confederate cavalry
leader from Kentucky. It provides fresh, unpublished information on
all aspects of Morgan's life and furnishes a new perspective on the
Civil War. In a highly original interpretation, Ramage portrays
Morgan as a revolutionary guerrilla chief. Using the tactics of
guerrilla war and making his own rules, Morgan terrorized federal
provost marshals in an independent campaign to protect Confederate
sympathizers in Kentucky. He killed pickets and used the enemy
uniform as a disguise, frequently masquerading as a Union officer.
Employing civilians in the fighting, he set off a cycle of
escalating violence which culminated in an unauthorized policy of
retaliation by his command on the property of Union civilians. To
many southerners, Morgan became the prime model of a popular
movement for guerrilla warfare that led to the Partisan Ranger Act.
For Confederates he was the ideal romantic cavalier, the "Francis
Marion of the War," and they make him a folk hero who was
especially adored by women. Discerning fact from folklore, Ramage
describes Morgan's strengths and weaknesses and suggests that
excessive dependence on his war bride contributed to his declining
success. The author throws new light on the Indiana-Ohio Raid and
the suspenseful escape from the Ohio Penitentiary and unravels the
mysteries around Morgan's death in Greeneville, Tennessee. Rebel
Raider also shows how in the popular mind John Hunt Morgan was
deified as a symbol of the Lost Cause.
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