Governor James B. McCreary

ID: 96
This file appears in: The Battle of Tebbs Bend

Future Kentucky governor James B. McCreary fought with John Hunt Morgan's Confederate cavalry at the Battle of Tebbs Bend. After the loss there, McCreary lamented, it "was a sad, sorrowful day." Courtesy the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: The Battle of Tebbs Bend

By Talbott
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…