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Lebanon, Battle of

Years: 1863 - 1863

The Battle of Lebanon occurs on July 5, 1863, in Lebanon, Kentucky, during Morgan's Raid in the American Civil War.

Confederate troops under Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan fight for six hours to overcome the small Union garrison before moving northward, eventually riding through Kentucky, Indiana, and much of Ohio before surrendering.

“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”

—Lord Acton, Lectures on Modern History (1906)