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My daughter and son-in-law were in Abingdon recently and brought back a brochure "Sinking Spring Cemetery," which has the following information:
"An illustrious person who was buried here, but just temporarily, was General John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate raider who was renown for burning down railroad trestles and generally bedeviling the Union forces. He was killed in Greenville, Tennessee, in September of 1864. The Confederates arranged for a truce and brought his body on a special train to Abingdon, where he had served as field director for the Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee campaign."
"Morgan's funeral was the larges one Abingdon had ever seen. General George Crittenden led the procession along the three-mile-long route from Judge John Campbell's home, Acklin, where Morgan had his office, to the Episcopal Church for the service, and then to the cemetery, where his body was laid in the Martin tomb." (See the entry I just made in the Martin Forum)
"After just a few days Morgan's body was taken by train to Richmond, where it lay in state until burial in the Hollywood Cemetery. In 1868 his body was exhumed and reburied in Lexington, Kentucky. Some say he traveled further after he died than he died while alive."
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