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n Greeneville I had an excellent dinner at the “General Morgan Inn”, a renovated old hotel once called the Brumley Hotel. This is a photograph of a new portion that was added to provide access to an upper balcony area. My friend Richard, who grew up in Greeneville, informed me that a benefactor named Niswonger appeared out of nowhere and donated many millions of dollars to improve Greeneville and adjacent areas. He gave 18 million dollars to rebuild the “General Morgan Inn” to its current splendor.
John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general and cavalry officer in the American Civil War who spread terror among much of the population of southern and eastern Ohio, as well as neighboring Indiana. He was killed on September 4, 1864, within half a block of where the "General Morgan Inn" now sits, in the church shown in the background. He had escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary by digging a tunnel shortly before his demise.
“Basically he and his rabble rousing band of men went around burning bridges and basically making pests of themselves to Yankees.” - Richard Nichols
