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"REBEL RAIDER: THE LIFE OF GENERAL JOHN
HUNT MORGAN"
BY
JAMES A. RAMAGE
Description of the life and career of John Hunt Morgan and evaluates his role in the Civil War. Morgan's small victories made him famous, The Southern People recognized him as the guerrilla par excellence of the Confederacy and identified with him as the primary model for a popular movement for guerrilla warfare. He represented the Southern ideal of the chivalrous knight, the cavalier of romantic literature come to life; and the tinge of deviltry in his reputation made him a folk hero unusually attractive to womem, who thronged in large crowds to adore him