Thank you for thinking well of me. Alas, I can not claim to be either well read or well breed. I am merely following the hoofprints of a much beloved ancestor who rode with JHM.

While I have not come across any mention of Morgan having a fear of water, I have not proof that he did not. One might look to the crossing of the Cumberland as he began the Great Raid. Yankee pickets thought the river too swift and swollen to be crossed. The Raiders did so any way. There is mention of a few canoes (often filled with arms and clothing), of horses be swam across in groups, and of men disrobing and swimming across. The later shocked the Yankees no end! If Morgan feared water, he certainly did not allow the fear to change his plan of action.