Elkhart (IN) Daily Review, July 9, 1913, p. 1. NOTABLE FIGHT ON INDIANA SOIL IS CELEBRATED Corydon the Scene of Only Civil War Battle Fought in Hoosierdom Brave but Untrained Men Faced Morgan's Raiders [United Press Special to Review] Corydon, Indiana, July 9-Today the little but aged hamlet of Corydon, the first capital of the state, is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Corydon, the only struggle of the Civil War to be fought on Indiana soil, and with the exception of the famous battle of Gettysburg, which has just ceased celebrating its anniversary, the only battle of the Civil War to be fought north of the Mason and Dixon line, with speeches and a banquet. History has devoted pages to the mighty conflict between the hills of Gettysburg, but no incident in the four years of warfare between the states resulted in a greater show of sheer patriotism and courage than at Corydon, July 9, 1863, when 450 untrained but nervy Hoosier farmers armed with squirrel rifles, horse pistols and old-fashioned muzzle-loading shotguns held off the noted raider, General Morgan, with 4,500 of his men for twenty-four hours and a loss of eight men The union forces lost two killed in conflict and one other killed later by a confederate raider. Morgan captured two river steamers on July 7 and 8 and with them transported his men across the Ohio River after a brush with the single cannon that the Hoosiers had been able to find and man. Under the command of W. J. Irvin and Provost Timerlake (sic), the Indiana farmers waited Morgan's arrival on Indiana soil along the Mauckport Road and then, following the tactics of the farmers of Lexington and Concord, they scattered behind the trees and stone fences and kept up a sharp and bitter skirmish during the entire day. It took Morgan's cavalry twenty four hours to make that fourteen miles. Three hundred men had stationed themselves at the home of the Rev. Peter Glenn who had sworn to kill the first confederate he saw. The sturdy Lutheran divine made good his word shooting and instantly killing the first Morgan raider that appeared. In revenge, the southern troopers killed Glenn almost instantly and shot his son, John Glenn, through one thigh. A mile south of Corydon, the Indiana Home Guard drew up for a final battle. In all there were about 300 of them. Morgan quickly surrounded the little force and shelled them, forcing them to surrender. It was in Corydon that Morgan first heard of the defeat of Lee at Gettysburg, the young union woman who waited upon him at the home of Jacob Kitner, where Morgan had made his headquarters, first telling him of the result of the battle and then showing him an account of it in a Louisville paper.