Morgan's Great Raid: The Remarkable Expedition from Kentucky to Ohio (Civil War Sesquicentennial)
David L. Mowery, a native resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, has lived at various points along the path of Morgan's Raid for most of his life. American military history piqued his interest at an early age. Since childhood, he has researched and visited over six hundred battlefields across fifty states and eight countries. In 2001, David joined the all-volunteer Ohio Civil War Trail Commission as its Hamilton County representative, but over the years his role expanded to include the final design and historical validation of the entire length of the John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail of Ohio. He is the co-author ofMorgan's Raid Across Ohio: The Civil War Guidebook of the John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail(Ohio Historical Society, 2013) and the author of the thesis titled "A Study of John Hunt Morgan's Ohio Raid Route from Reedsville to Creola, Ohio, July 19-22, 1863" (Ohio Historical Society, 2011), the first comprehensive study of Morgan's whereabouts during the three controversial days following the Battle of Buffington Island. Since 1995, David has been a member of the Cincinnati Civil War Round Table, for which he has written various papers on Civil War subjects. He has also served with the Buffington Island Battlefield Preservation Foundation, the grass-roots organization working to preserve Ohio's only Civil War battlefield.