Major General Ambrose Burnside, commander of the Department of the Ohio with headquarters in Cincinnati, quickly organizes local Federal troops and home militia to cut off Morgan's routes back to the South.

Morgan heads northward on Mauckport Road, with another brother, Colonel Richard Morgan, leading the forward elements.

On July 9, one mile south of Corydon, Indiana, the county seat of Harrison County, his advance guard encounters Jordan's small force, drawn in a battle line behind a hastily thrown up barricade of logs.

The colonel attacks, and in a short but spirited battle of less than an hour, he simultaneously outflanks both Union wings, completely routing the hapless militia.

Accounts vary as to the number of casualties of the Battle of Corydon, but the most reliable evidence suggests that four of Jordan's men were killed, ten to twelve were wounded, and three hundred and fifty-five were captured

Morgan counts eleven dead and forty wounded raiders.

Among the dead Federals is the civilian toll keeper who had perished near his tollgate.

Raiders kill a Lutheran minister, Reverend Peter Glenn, on his farm, four miles (six kilometers) from the battlefield, and steal horses from several other farmers.