Excerpt taken from “History of Indiana from Its Exploration to 1922,” Volume 4 The cross currents of life very often carry a man far from his life’s work as he had planned it. No better illustration of this fact could be chosen than the career of the late Asa M. Fitch of Indianapolis. He began…
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Morgan’s Raid of Confederate Soldiers through Southern Indiana During the Civil War, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan led a raid through southern Indiana July 8-13, 1863. He and his troops crossed the Ohio River at Brandenburg, Kentucky on two commandeered steamboats with over 2,000 cavalrymen and entered Indiana near Mauckport. Following the battle at Corydon,…