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A very clean CDV of General John Morgan of Kentucky.  While Morgan was born in Huntsville, Alabama he attended college in Lexington, Kentucky and forever more became a Kentuckian.  Morgan fought at Buena Vista in the Mexican War.  When the Civil War started, Morgan led his Lexington Rifles to Bowling Green and joined General Buckner.  From then until his death three years later his exploits made him one of the legendary figures of the COnfederacy, ranking then and to this day with Jeb Stuart in the hearts of Kentuckians as a symbol of the "Lost Cause".  He was promoted COlonel of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry on April 4, 1862 and promoted to brigadier general on December 11, 1862.  His series of raids into Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio earned him a vote of thanks from the Confederate Congress and the undying animosity of a large segment of the frightened Norrth.  Captured on his Ohio raid, he escaped  and returned South to command the Department of Southwest Virginia.  He was killed September 5, 1864 by a detachment of Union cavalry in Greeneville, Tennessee.  The image is very clean with an "E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York" backmark.