john m. porter's cousin, thomas henry hives. he was a captain in morgan's command and he had actually heard -- i don't know how -- that these two fellows were in clark county looking for morgan. and he was out looking for these two. they were searching for one another and they find one another. , is is one of the most interesting human beings ever to come out of the civil war. he would be a captain in the ninth kentucky cavalry during the war with john m. porter. tom hines was captured in ohio with john hunt morgan and they would both be incarcerated in the ohio penitentiary and, as would mastermind the escape of john hunt morgan and six of his men out of the ohio country in november of 1863. then he would go to canada and from canada he was the architect of what became the northwest conspiracy, attempt by the confederate war department to cause an uprising in l.a. and indiana to free all the confederate prisoners of war in camp douglas and chicago and camp morgan and indianapolis and hopefully take

edward ludlow hines had another son, a brother who he named john m. porter hines. john m. porter hines was the grandfather of the wonderful lady cora jane spiller who provided me that you see on the dusk jacket and so many of the manuscript that is i used to describe john porter and his family. it's a very interesting crowd of people. they are still in evidence in kentucky. they don't move away from here much. >> how long did it take you to put this together? >> i suppose the manuscript was given to me and 1995. in the -- between 1995 though and when this book was finally released in february of this year, i published a number of other books. and so it's not as though i took all of that time. i published a book called a retreat from gettysburg in 2005. from 2005 on i began working in earnest on this. i corrected the manuscript so it's readable. i still have the flavor. then what i did, i annotated it. so that when john porter is mentioning any of these people, and there are hundreds of people he names in here, mostly in the original manuscript, either last names. he thought

brown recounts the military career of john m. porter who served in the ninth kentucky cavalry during the war and penned the events of his services following the end of the war. it's about 30 minutes. >> john porter was a, um, young fellow from butler county, kentucky, which is a county down in south central part of the state. who, um, joined the confederate army in october of 1861 when the confederate armies occupied southern kentucky. and he ultimately became a lieutenant in the ninth kentucky cavalry that rode with john hunt morgan. and, um, he was probably prouder of having ridden through the war with john hunt morgan than he was almost anything he ever did in life. and he penned this memoir for his daughter whose name was minnie belle. he married shortly after the war was over, and his wife died after giving birth to minnie belle. and so he raised this child along with his two sisters and a brother in bowling green, kentucky, a county, warren county, it's a neighboring county to butler, and bowling green is the county seat, so a rat