Some of my ancestors lived in Harrison and Tuscarawas County, Ohio during the Civil War. One branch of the family encountered John Hunt Morgan's Raiders, "riding up the glen". You might find this interesting....
Thomas and Catherine Healea and their family had a farm in Tuscarawas County. Catherine was known to her family as 'Moi". Her great Great Granddaughter recalled:
In the summer of 1863, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan led a daring raid through southern Indiana and Ohio. A small contingent of Morgan's Raiders, led by one of General Morgan's brothers, went through Pleasant Valley in Tuscarawas County, where the Healeas had their farm. When they heard gunshots and saw their neighbors' barns burning, the Healea boys went out with their rifles to defend their farm.
Moi Healea saw that the leader and his horse had been shot and were both wounded. She walked out into the melee and grabbed the horse's reins. She was less than 5 feet tall, but she ordered all the men to put their guns away and come in for supper. After supper, she dressed the soldiers' wounds, and they departed without burning the Healea barn, but they did confiscate one of the Healea horses to replace the wounded horse, which they were planning to take with them until Moi demanded that they leave the horse in trade for the one they were taking. When it recovered, it became Moi's personal mount.
Moi was a Quaker, and did not believe in music. One day, when she was riding side-saddle, carrying several dozen eggs to sell to the grocer in town, she encountered a medicine wagon heading into town. When the musicians on the medicine wagon began to play, the horse stepped behind the wagon and waltzed and bowed all the way down Main Street, until the grocer (who needed the eggs) ran out, grabbed the reins, and saved Moi from further humiliation from her dancing horse.
I'd appreciate any more information on who these Confederates were and what unit of Morgan's they might have been with.
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