By ALEX HORTON | The Washington Post | Published: March 11, 2021 It was early September 1864 when Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan, with a reputation among Southerners as a swashbuckling gentleman, was surrounded by federal soldiers outside a Tennessee mansion. Morgan fled across the lawn. A Union bullet shredded the general's heart, a member of his staff wrote to Morgan's wife, ending his campaign of ambushing and capturing U.S. troops. Nearly 160 years later, Morgan's legacy lives within 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillery Regiment of the Kentucky National Guard, which traces its lineage through a cavalry unit he commanded. Its members are officially nicknamed "Morgan's Men." On the radio, the commander is known by the call sign "Morgan 6."