(MURFREESBORO) Dignataries and leaders decended on Murfreesboro on December 22, 1862 for what was described as one of the biggest social events of the time. The beautiful Mattie Ready was to marry Gen. John Hunt Morgan.
The day after the wedding, her husband rode away to the Christmas Raids in Kentucky.
Historians found a letter from Gen. Morgan to his bridge, and it indicated the raid would end in six days, "And then my precious one I shall try and get back to you as fast as possi .