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... The name of my Southern Indiana school is Morgan School and it is named after Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan.
If you have ever heard of John Hunt Morgan, you are probably wondering why he my school is named after him. ... It can be seen by anyone traveling north on Highway 135 from Corydon to Salem, which coincidentally was the same path that John Hunt Morgan took. ... On the Almost anyone who lives in Harrison County knows where Morgan School is. ... I was also taught the namesake of our school, John Hunt Morgan. ...
Johnston writes that John Hunt Morgan was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on June 1, 1826. His father brought him to Lexington, Kentucky when John was a mere four years of age (1). Morgan, once an adult, volunteered for service in the Mexican War (Sifakis 1). ... Unlike many other volunteers in the Mexican War, Morgan was actually involved in combat (Sifakis 1). ...
John Hunt Morgan was a talented leader and preferred guerrilla warfare over normal, face-to-face fighting (Woodward 134). ... However, General Joseph E. Johnston testifies that Colonel Morgan “achieved a very handsome feat of arms at Hartsville, where, with a portion of his cavalry and two regiments of Kentucky infantry, in all not much above fifteen hundred men, he attacked and defeated almost twice his number of Federal troops, taking eighteen hundred prisoners” (151). After this achievement, Morgan was given the title of Brigadier-General (Johnston 151).
By now you may be thinking that if you look past the gambling and the slave trading, John Hunt Morgan was not that bad of a guy. He had many downfalls other than these that I will soon describe, but merely the fact that the man was a CSA General and the school is in a Union state should alert everyone to the fact that the school should not be named after him. The battle of Corydon, the only organized battle other than Gettysburg fought in the North, was about 20 miles south of the school in which Morgan captured about 360 men is testimony that Morgan was not received well.
During a raid near Nashville, Tennessee, where Morgan and his men were busy destroying railroad lines, Morgan told his men, “No quarter today boys,” meaning he would not take any prisoners.
Approximate Word count = 1767
Approximate Pages = 7.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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