Here's the rest of the story from my brother Jamie: "That's all the discussion the book has about the encounter. The Col. Hanson, however, was a Col. Charles Hanson, commanding the 20th Kentucky Infantry with detachments from three other Kentucky Union regiments! That's the same name as the commander of the 37th Kentucky Volunteer (Mounted) Infantry Regiment, a unit with a muster roll I sent you earlier listing a Corporal Samuel C. Abell! Another book, "Morgan's Raiders" by Dee Alexander Brown mentions a visit in 1862: By ten o'clock, the 2nd Kentucky (Confederate) had occupied the town, capturing almost two hundred soldiers who were guarding Federal storehouses. According to a later report in the Louisville Journal, "The destruction was immense . . . sugar, coffee, flour; guns were bent double by hard licks over rocks -- powder, cartridges, and caps were thrown into the creek." .... Not until noon of the following day, July 12, was the 2nd finished with its work in Lebanon, destroying by the Federals' own estimate more than one hundred thousand dollars' worth of military supplies. While the boys were burning these stores, Morgan and his forerunner of the modern propoganda officer, Gordon Niles, were distributing recruiting posters and welcoming new additions to the regiment. Your M. Dean Hunt story said of the night before: On December 25, 1862, the 2nd Brigade started from Gallatin under the command of Col. John M. Harlan in pursuit of rebel Gen. John H. Morgan, and to protect the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Morgan was overtaken on December 29th at Rolling Fork and driven from the line of the railroad. Gen. Duke of Morgan's command was dangerously wounded there. Dee Alexander Brown continues: In December, 1963, approaching a well-defended Lebanon on his "Christmas Raid," Morgan decided not to engage the large enemy force and put his men on a forced night march around the city, only sending in a skirmishing squad. The small unit drove in the pickets and then torched a mile-long series of "campfires," leading the Union troops to believe that Morgan had gone into camp in preparation for a daybreak assault. However, I question whether or not any Abell's were here, as the test said that Company H had been captured at Courtland, AL in July of 1862. Do we have any prisoner of war rosters? Sorry this isn't all chronological. I haven't found any references to burning a county courthouse, but I will continue to look."