Union Colonel Orlando Moore
This file appears in: The Battle of Tebbs Bend
On July 4, 1863, Confederate cavalryman John Hunt Morgan called for Union Colonel Orlando Moore to surrender. Because of the date - Independence Day - Moore replied, "It is a bad day for surrender, and I would rather not." Image from the Collections of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
This file appears in: The Battle of Tebbs Bend
The Battle of Tebbs Bend
Historical Marker #706 in Taylor County notes the Battle of Tebbs Bend. There, on July 4, 1863, Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan's command ran into a much smaller Federal force on the Green River…