Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky, 1860
Keene Springs Tavern and Hotel, Jessamine County, Kentucky
A rarely published carte de visite photograph of General Abraham Buford
The covered bridge over the South Fork of the Licking River at Cynthiana, Kentucky
Woodcut of the Battle of Cynthiana, Kentucky, July 17, 1862
Morgan's command enters Paris, Kentucky, July 18, 1862
Major General Edmund Kirby Smith
Major William Campbell Preston Breckinridge
Brigadier General Humphrey Marshall
The Henry Clay Home as it would have looked in 1862
A company of Indiana volunteers in the Army of the Ohio
Major General John C. Breckinridge
Major General William S. Rosecrans
Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and Martha “Mattie” Ready at the time of their wedding
Bacon Creek Bridge as it looked after Morgan's command destroyed it on the Christmas Raid
Woodcut of a Federal stockade protecting the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
An idealized portrait of Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan
Morgan's men ride toward the enemy
Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan from a photograph taken in late 1863 or early 1864
Cavalrymen departing camp on a scout
Five officers from Morgan's command
A packet steamboat similar to the Hettie Gilmore, which was sunk by Captain Thomas Henry Hines
Shaker community main residence building, South Union, Logan County, Kentucky
Locomotives in the railroad yards in Nashville, Tennessee
Lebanon Junction, Kentucky, as it looked during the Civil War
Prisoners of war at Fort Delaware, May 1864
A sketch of Johnson's Island Prisoner of War Depot showing the USS Michigan
The ruins of Richmond, Virginia
Uncle John Watson Porter of Madison, Georgia
Railroad car shed, Atlanta, Georgia, destroyed by General William T. Sherman's troops
Train leaving the Chattanooga Railroad terminal
John Marion Porter, from a photograph taken in Bowling Green, Kentucky, after the war
MAPS
Butler, Logan, Warren, and Simpson Counties in Kentucky
The Western Confederacy Collapses, Fall 1861 to Spring 1862
First Kentucky Raid, July 1862
Invasion of Kentucky, September 1862
The Withdrawal from Kentucky, October 1862
The Christmas Raid, December 1862-January 1863
Morgan's Cavalry Division Protects Bragg's Right Flank, January- June 1863
The Great Raid, June-July 1863
Porter's Travels Home, Spring 1865
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
There are many individuals who helped make the publication of Lieutenant John M. Porter's war memoirs a reality. First and foremost, Steve Carson of Lexington, Kentucky, gave me the typescript of the war memoirs and the permission to publish it. Steve is a descendant of Thomas Carson of Prince Edward County, Virginia, who married Anna Porter, the sister of John Marion Porter's grandfather, Francis Porter. Thomas and Anna Carson settled near Sugar Grove in Butler County, Kentucky. Thank you, Steve, for your great interest in history and your warm friendship.
Colonel Robert Spiller and his dear wife, Cora Jane Spiller, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, provided magnificent archival material, including the Hines genealogies, Porter's own sketch of his family history, various manuscript materials relating to the Porter and Hines families, and Porter's wartime photograph. Cora Jane is the granddaughter of none other than John Marion Porter Hines, the fifth child of Lieutenant Edward Ludlow