. Ohio in the war; her statement, generals and soldiers . Confeder servileWhen Morgan rode into town, a few hours later, the boats were ready for Ms Indiana had just driven out a previous invader-Captain Hines of Mor-gan s command, who, with a small force, had crossed over -to stir up the Copperheads, as the Eebel accounts pleasantly express it. Finding the c unltoo hot for , he had retired, after doing considerable damage; and in Wdenburg he was now awaiting his chief Preparations were at once made for crossing over. But the men crowdingdown incautiously to the river bank, revealed their p
. Ohio in the war; her statement, generals and soldiers . Confeder servileWhen Morgan rode into town, a few hours later, the boats were ready for Ms Indiana had just driven out a previous invader-Captain Hines of Mor-gan s command, who, with a small force, had crossed over -to stir up the Copperheads, as the Eebel accounts pleasantly express it. Finding the c unltoo hot for , he had retired, after doing considerable damage; and in Wdenburg he was now awaiting his chief Preparations were at once made for crossing over. But the men crowdingdown incautiously to the river bank, revealed their presence to the militia onhe Indiana side, whom Captain Hiness recent performance had made unwontediy watchful. They at once opened a sharp fusillade across the stream withmusketry and wit an old cannon, which they had mounted on wagon wheelsMorgan speedily silenced this fire by bringing up his Parrott rifles; ttn hastilydismounted two of his regiments and sent them across. The milik retreated newspfpronhft: ° °°^ - - ° *=» ^^-- - ^^O »K-« M - the. Morgan Raid. 137 and the two Eebel regiments pursued. Just then a little tin-clad, the Spring-field, which Commander Leroy Fitch had dispatched from New Albany- on thefirst news of something wrong down the river, came steaming toward the sceneof action. Suddenly checking her way, writes the Eebel historian of theraid,* she tossed her snub nose defiantl}^ like an angry beauty of the coal-pits, sidled a little toward the town, and commenced to scold. A bluish-whitefunnel-shaped cloud spouted out from her left-hand bow, and a shot flew at thetown, and then changing front forward she snapped a shell at the men on theother side. I wish I were sufficiently master of nautical phraseology to dojustice to this little vixens style of fighting; but she was so unlike a horse, oreven a piece of light artillerj, that I can not venture to attempt it. He addsthat the Eebel regiments on the Indiana side found shelter, and that thus thegunboat f
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