John Hunt Morgan Handbill, July 1862

Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan issued this recruiting handbill from Georgetown in July 1862. In part it reads, "KENTUCKIANS! I come to liberate you from the despotism of a tyrannical faction and to rescue my native State from the hand of your oppressors. Everywhere the cowardly foe has fled from my avenging arms. My brave army is stigmatized as a band of guerrillas and marauders. Believe it not." Courtesy the Kentucky Historical Society.