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and what is also kind of interesting about these memoirs is that they are the fellows that road with morgan even though they were up words of 4600 troopers at one time. the memoir left behind by those men are very scarce. this is the first memoir of john morgan's officers or soldiers to be published since 1917 when interestingly john porter's regimental commander left a memoir called active service. his name was john kasman, and he commanded john porter's company and then rose to become a regiment officer in the ninth kentucky calvary, and his memoir is the only -- the last one to be...

>> find the confederate army in october of 1861 when the confederates armies occupied southern kentucky. and he ultimately became a lieutenant in the 9th kentucky calvary that rode with john hunt morgan. and he was probably prouder of having ridden through the war with john hunt morgan than he was with almost anything he's done in life. and he penned this memoir for his daughter who's name was minnie bell. he married shortly after the war was over and his life died after giving birth to minnie bell. he raised this child along with his two sisters and a brother in bowling green, kentu...

memoirs were published, i don't think there were more than four that were ever published by members of this command, and virtually all of them were by high-ranking offices by general basil duke. and so this is a rare, a rare glimpse of life in morgan's command. .. how he fund john hunt morgan. he didn't and award and he never knew about john hunt morgan until the confederate army retreated toward mississippi in february of 1862. he heard about morgan who was only commanded a squadron of confederate cavalry mostly from lexington and they serve as the rear guard for the confederate arm...