543 Death of a Morgan

Category: Markers

Marker reads, Lt. Thomas Morgan, 19, one of four brothers then in Morgans Raiders under another brother, Gen. John Hunt Morgan, was killed near here July 5, 1863 as he led an attack on Union forces in the depot at Lebanon. He died in his brother Calvins arms as the Union troops surrendered. He was reinterred in the Lexington Cemetery in 1868 where this Morgan family rests.