George A. Ellsworth, commonly known as "Lightning" Ellsworth, was a Canadian telegrapher who served in the cavalry forces of Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. His use of the telegraph to spread disinformation to the Union forces was declared by The Times as the greatest innovation to come out of the war.
George A. Ellsworth "Morgan's Telegraph Operator", (Memphis Commercial Appeal, July 2, 1897)
Funding for a Texas telegraph line
Part of Ellsworth's Confederate personnel record
Morgan's Raid was a diversionary incursion by Confederate cavalry into the Union states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia during the American Civil War. The raid took place from June 11 to July 26, 1863. It is named for the commander of the Confederate troops, Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan. Although it caused temporary alarm in the North, the raid failed.
The Battle of Tebbs' Bend
Panic in Louisville as Morgan's troops approach; Drawing from Illustrated Battles of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2
Morgan's Raiders enter Old Washington, Ohio
Group of "Morgan's Men" while prisoners of war in Western Penitentiary, Pennsylvania All were captured with John Hunt Morgan in Ohio, 1863
