MORGAN, JOHN HUNT, General, C.S.A. [BROADSIDE]. Proclamation. To the Inhabitants of Kentucky! Fellow Countrymen--I have kept my promise. At the head of my old companions in arms, I am once more amongst you...Deprived as you are by these Northern Despots of all true information respecting the War, you are probably unaware that our holy Southern Case is everywhere in the ascendant...McClellan has retreated from the Peninsula. Stonewall Jackson...is asserting the superiority of our Southern banner against the armies of Pope, Banks, Fremont, Burnside, and...McClellan...NO POWER ON EARTH CAN MAKE US SLAVES!...Arouse, Kentuckians! shake off that listless feeling which was engendered by the presence of a powerful and relentless enemy. He is no longer to be feared!...Better death in our sacred cause, than a life of slavery! Young men of Kentucky flock to my standard, it will always wave in the path of honor, and history will relate how you responded to my appeal, and how, by so doing, you saved your country! John H. Morgan, Col.-Commanding Brigade, C.S.A. [Monticello, Tennessee?] Morgan's Press Print, 22 August 1862. Broadside, folio, 430 x 223mm. (17 1/8 x 8 13/16 in.), printed in a single column with large display heading at top, signed in type at bottom, small repairs at margins, neatly matted."BETTER DEATH IN OUR NOBLE CAUSE THAN A LIFE OF SLAVERY": MORGAN'S FIRST KENTUCKY RAIDA rare inflammatory broadside printed on a printing press Morgan had captured at Hartsville and immediately put into use, issuing a news sheet, the Vidette, and broadsides calculated to arouse the inhabitants to join the Confederate cause. Morgan's daring raid into Union-held Kentucky, with some 800 men, lasted from 4 July until 22 August. "In 24 days he had covered over 1,000 miles, had captured...1,200 prisoners, and had lost fewer than 100 men. The raid did much damage to Federal morale..." (Boatner, Civil War Dictionary, p. 567).

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MORGAN, JOHN HUNT, General, C.S.A. [BROADSIDE]. Proclamation. To the Inhabitants of Kentucky! Fellow Countrymen--I have kept my promise. At the head of my old companions in arms, I am once more amongst you...Deprived as you are by these Northern Despots of all true information respecting the War, you are probably unaware that our holy Southern Case is everywhere in the ascendant...McClellan has retreated from the Peninsula. Stonewall Jackson...is asserting the superiority of our Southern banner against the armies of Pope, Banks, Fremont, Burnside, and...McClellan...NO POWER ON EARTH CAN MAKE US SLAVES!...Arouse, Kentuckians! shake off that listless feeling which was engendered by the presence of a powerful and relentless enemy. He is no longer to be feared!...Better death in our sacred cause, than a life of slavery! Young men of Kentucky flock to my standard, it will always wave in the path of honor, and history will relate how you responded to my appeal, and how, by so doing, you saved your country! John H. Morgan, Col.-Commanding Brigade, C.S.A. [Monticello, Tennessee?] Morgan's Press Print, 22 August 1862. Broadside, folio, 430 x 223mm. (17 1/8 x 8 13/16 in.), printed in a single column with large display heading at top, signed in type at bottom, small repairs at margins, neatly matted. "BETTER DEATH IN OUR NOBLE CAUSE THAN A LIFE OF SLAVERY": MORGAN'S FIRST KENTUCKY RAID A rare inflammatory broadside printed on a printing press Morgan had captured at Hartsville and immediately put into use, issuing a news sheet, the Vidette, and broadsides calculated to arouse the inhabitants to join the Confederate cause. Morgan's daring raid into Union-held Kentucky, with some 800 men, lasted from 4 July until 22 August. "In 24 days he had covered over 1,000 miles, had captured...1,200 prisoners, and had lost fewer than 100 men. The raid did much damage to Federal morale..." (Boatner, Civil War Dictionary, p. 567).

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MORGAN, JOHN HUNT, General, C.S.A. [BROADSIDE]. Proclamation. To the Inhabitants of Kentucky! Fellow Countrymen--I have kept my promise. At the head of my old companions in arms, I am once more amongst you...Deprived as you are by these Northern Despots of all true information respecting the War, you are probably unaware that our holy Southern Case is everywhere in the ascendant...McClellan has retreated from the Peninsula. Stonewall Jackson...is asserting the superiority of our Southern banner against the armies of Pope, Banks, Fremont, Burnside, and...McClellan...NO POWER ON EARTH CAN MAKE US SLAVES!...Arouse, Kentuckians! shake off that listless feeling which was engendered by the presence of a powerful and relentless enemy. He is no longer to be feared!...Better death in our sacred cause, than a life of slavery! Young men of Kentucky flock to my standard, it will always wave in the path of honor, and history will relate how you responded to my appeal, and how, by so doing, you saved your country! John H. Morgan, Col.-Commanding Brigade, C.S.A. [Monticello, Tennessee?] Morgan's Press Print, 22 August 1862. Broadside, folio, 430 x 223mm. (17 1/8 x 8 13/16 in.), printed in a single column with large display heading at top, signed in type at bottom, small repairs at margins, neatly matted.

"BETTER DEATH IN OUR NOBLE CAUSE THAN A LIFE OF SLAVERY": MORGAN'S FIRST KENTUCKY RAID

A rare inflammatory broadside printed on a printing press Morgan had captured at Hartsville and immediately put into use, issuing a news sheet, the Vidette, and broadsides calculated to arouse the inhabitants to join the Confederate cause. Morgan's daring raid into Union-held Kentucky, with some 800 men, lasted from 4 July until 22 August. "In 24 days he had covered over 1,000 miles, had captured...1,200 prisoners, and had lost fewer than 100 men. The raid did much damage to Federal morale..." (Boatner, Civil War Dictionary, p. 567).