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Jul 10, 2024 · All three victims died at the scene in Ashlyn Close in Bushey, Hertfordshire. A full-scale manhunt has taken place today to find suspect Kyle Clifford, 26, who is from Enfield, north London, and ...
John Hunt is the main racing commentator for BBC 5 Live, the broadcaster’s news and sports radio channel. His voice is known to millions through his coverage of the world-famous Grand National ...
- John Hunt Morgan: “Thunderbolt of The Confederacy”
- Morgan’s Ambitious Plan
- Defying Bragg’s Orders
- Crossing The Cumberland River
- “The Fourth of July Is A Bad Day to Talk About Surrender”
- Moore Defies Morgan’s Advance
- The Death of Morgan’s Brother
- Delaying The Raiders
- Pressing Onward to Brandenburg
- A 30 Minute Fight
The raid on which the 11th was embarked would become the stuff of American military legend. It was the brainchild of the regiment’s divisional commander, Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan, a transplanted Kentuckian who combined an ease in the saddle with the most necessary trait of a successful cavalry leader—supreme self-confidence. The dashing Morgan’s...
By the summer of 1863, Bragg would be in desperate need of a cavalryman with just such a predilection for independent command. The Army of Tennessee’s senior officers expected to receive a multi-pronged Union thrust into Middle and East Tennessee. The Federal Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans was within striking distance of B...
Fully aware of Morgan’s penchant for recklessness, Bragg approved the operation but outlined rigid parameters designed to keep his impetuous partisan commander in check. On June 14, Wheeler forwarded written authorization for the raid. Morgan would be allowed to take just 1,500 men; the balance of his division would remain behind to screen Bragg. F...
As he began to implement the operation, Morgan ordered Duke to dispatch horsemen to scout a number of potential fords along the Ohio River upstream from Cincinnati. Another body of 62 men led by Captain Thomas Hines moved out under the vague pretense of operating “north of the Cumberland” but headed straight for Indiana. Anticipating his orders, Mo...
Morgan’s division was already riding hard to the north. On the afternoon of July 3, the horsemen thundered into Columbia, Kentucky, driving off 100 enemy cavalry in a brief skirmish. From the outset of the raid, Morgan’s men took considerable liberties with private property, a dangerous breach of discipline bemoaned (at least formally) by the offic...
Moore’s rejection brought on the fight in earnest. Morgan sent in elements of Stovepipe Johnson’s brigade, the 11th and 7th Kentucky with a single company of the 10th on the right. Advancing dismounted, Johnson’s men seized the enemy’s advanced line, where they were afforded a better view of Moore’s main position. Morgan and Johnson entered the rif...
The following day was only worse. Morgan rode hard for Lebanon, hoping to bag the town’s rich Federal supply depot. The Union officer in charge at Lebanon was Lt. Col. Charles Hanson, an acquaintance of the Morgan family, who led his own 20th Kentucky as well as detachments from three other regiments—all told about 380 men. Burnside had telegraphed...
The breakneck pace of the raid was clearly taking a toll on the exhausted cavalrymen, but Morgan could ill afford to rest his men after expending so much time and energy dealing with small but stubborn detachments of Federal troops. He met with the same difficulty when he arrived at Bardstown at 4 am on July 6. The night before, his lead elements h...
For Morgan, there was no turning back. His division reached Brandenburg in force on the morning of July 8 and immediately made preparations for a crossing of the Ohio. Two steamers, John T. McCoombs and Alice Dean, were already available, having been seized the previous day by members of the 10th Kentucky. But as a heavy morning fog lifted from the...
As Morgan drove north up the Mauckport Road, the local militia was scrambling to halt the invasion. By the morning of July 9, about 450 Home Guards under the command of Colonel Lewis Jordan took up position on a slight ridge about a mile south of Corydon and hastily improvised breastworks from logs and fence rails. At half past noon, Morgan deploye...
The great alarm was during his first Kentucky Raid in July 1862, when he struck the Bluegrass and appeared to be marching toward Newport and Covington. By then Morgan, world famous, was moving behind Union lines, where resistance was weak and where he seemed almost invincible. Morgan was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and grew up in Lexington ...
Jul 10, 2024 · The women were the wife and daughters of BBC commentator John Hunt. ... left the British army after a short period of service in 2022, the BBC understands.
Jul 10, 2024 · John Hunt's wife Carol, 61, and daughters Louise (top right) and Hannah were killed. ... Mr Clifford left the British army after a short period of service in 2022, the BBC understands.
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Jul 10, 2024 · The public had been urged not to approach Clifford, who the BBC reported had been in the British army for a brief period in 2022. John Hunt is the main racing commentator for BBC 5 Live, the ...
