Morgan’s Raiders: General John Hunt Morgan and his 1800 men arrived in Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky on July 8, 1863 to seize steamboats and cross the Ohio River. He attracted Rebel militia, some little more than thieves.
Meanwhile my family on 1 or 2 shantyboats (flatboats with small cabins) had docked at Brandenburg, likely because the Morgan’s Raiders had disrupted river traffic. They were headed to Shawneetown, Illinois My great-great grandparents, Andrew William Greenfield and Mary Mann Greenfield were murdered by Rebel militia—he was German-speaking Swiss, and she was Shawnee. They were killed for being immigrant or Indian—Captain William Davison, a militia leader was in the area and was known for racist and ant-immigrant views—I believe he killed them.
C. T. Suddeth 
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