Twelve Mile Island was used by the Confederate Morgan’s Raiders to cross into Indiana during their famous raids of Indiana and Ohio for 46 days between June 11-July 26, 1863.

Now citizens of Ohio can do the same in a new, well-marked John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail that debuted in May and will be officially inaugurated this month, the 150th anniversary of Morgan's Raid ...

The 162nd anniversary of the Battle of Buffington Island, the only Civil War battle fought in Ohio, was commemorated Saturday ...

One-hundred fifty years ago this month, Ohio got its first up-close-and-personal taste of fighting in the Civil War. Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan, believing that farmers and civilians in the ...

ESCAPE OF MORGAN'S RAIDERS.; Mystery of the Ohio Penitentiary Delivery May Be Solved. Share full article. Dec. 29, 1898. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Crossing the Ohio River from Kentucky into Mauckport, Ind., on July 8, 1863, General John Hunt Morgan and his Raiders, some 2,400 men strong, burned the steamships they had commandeered.