General John Hunt Morgan
Kentucky's most famous Civil War General
While vacationing in Lexington, KY a few years ago, I visited the Hunt-Morgan House. It is a
beautiful Federal style home with lots of family history. It was built in 1814 by John Wesley Hunt, first millionaire
west of the Alleghenies. It was home to Confederate General Morgan and to Dr. Thomas Hunt, a Nobel Prize winner in
Medicine.
Not far away from the home right in downtown Lexington is the impressive statue of the General on his horse.
The Hunt-Morgan
family members are buried in the famous Lexington Cemetary. The Cemetary is a very beautiful wooded, peaceful place.
You can drive through on quiet paths and visit the burial sites of many famous Kentuckians. The resting places of the
Hunt-Morgan family is interesting and well-kept. Several of them served in the Civil War and the markers have "CSA"
inscribed on them. Here are some of the pictures I took.
Statue of John Hunt Morgan in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. General Morgan was the leader of "Morgan's Raiders". To the Southerners he was the "Thunderbolt of the Confederacy". To the Northerners, he was the "King of the Horse Thieves".
Hunt-Morgan Family's historic house in Lexington, Kentucky.
John Hunt Morgan's burial site in the Lexington Cemetary.
More on Lexington Cemetary: Also buried here are Henry Clay, members of the Mary Todd Lincoln family, and John C. Breckinridge (nominated for US presidency in 1860, later was the Secretary of War of the Confederacy). Hundreds of Civil War soldiers are buried there as well. Both Union (black and white) and Confederate (interments book note them as "disloyals"). They are buried separately in "soldiers' grounds".
