(CIVIL WAR KENTUCKY) Sarah Wells Hibben Rose Letter describ

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(CIVIL WAR--KENTUCKY.) Sarah Wells Hibben Rose. Letter describing Morgan Raiders going "through every room in the hotel" with a pistol. Autograph Letter Signed to husband Thomas J. Rose on service with the 138th Ohio Infantry. 4 pages, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches, on one folding sheet; moderate dampstaining, short separations at intersection of folds. With worn original envelope, lacking stamp. Cherry Grove, OH, 20 June 1864

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This letter was written shortly after Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's final Kentucky raid came to a halt in Cynthiana, KY. The author was writing from a suburb of Cincinnati, about 60 miles north of Cynthiana. She apparently had spoken with two locals who had experienced close brushes with the raiders, possibly as they swept through Lexington on the day before their final battle in Cynthiana.

"I suppose you heard of Morgan's raid through Kentucky. He came very near taking T. Litch. He had to give leg bail and hide himself. W. Shipley came home last night. He said Morgan & his men went through every room in the hotel and fired a pistol demanding the money of the men in the house. Fortunately for him & John Wayland, they did not set their boots out to be blacked & Morgan, supposing it to be a ladies' room, passed on & did not go in. Twas a good thing for John as he had a large amount of money with him."