FAIRVIEW, Ky. (AP) - A Civil War cavalry exhibit will go on display next week at the Jefferson Davis State Historic site in southern Kentucky.
State parks officials say the exhibit features personal items belonging to Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan.
The items will be displayed from Thursday through July 15 at the museum at the state historic site at Fairview.
The exhibit tells the story of the horse soldiers during the Civil War. Among the items on display will be the door from the cell block of Morgan’s imprisonment in Ohio, the saber Morgan used following his prison escape and a revolver presented to Morgan by his uncle.
Morgan, a successful businessman in Lexington before the war, was killed in action in Tennessee in 1864.
The exhibit will move to Columbus-Belmont State Park later this year.
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