. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . CHAPTER IV. other important events of 1863. Morgans Ohio Raid. NE of the most thrilling episodes of the waris the celebrated cavalry raid of GeneralJohn H. Morgan into Ohio during the sum-mer of 1863. This remarkable man was a Kentuckianwho embraced with all his heart the cause of the South. He had enteredthe Confederate army asa captain in 1861, and byhis
. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . CHAPTER IV. other important events of 1863. Morgans Ohio Raid. NE of the most thrilling episodes of the waris the celebrated cavalry raid of GeneralJohn H. Morgan into Ohio during the sum-mer of 1863. This remarkable man was a Kentuckianwho embraced with all his heart the cause of the South. He had enteredthe Confederate army asa captain in 1861, and byhis daring exploits hadrapidly risen to the rankof brigadier-general. Ashort while beforeBraggs Kentucky cam-paign Morgan, leavingTennessee with less thana thousand men, pene-trated a country in thehands of the Federals,captured seventeentowns, and destroyed allgovernment supplies andarms in them, dispersed1,500 home guards, and paroled nearly 1,200 regulartroops. In subsequent campaigns he was equallysuccessful. 2. Morgans most wonderful exploit was his greatraid through Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, which be-. GENERAL JOHN H. MORGAN. Other Important Events of 1863. 277 gan on the 2(1 of July, 1863, when, with near 2,000horsemen and four cannon, he crossed the Cumber-land river near Burksville. Moving rapidly forward,he met and defeated Wolfords Kentucky Union com-mand. At Brandenburg, on the Ohio, Morgans boldriders captured two steamboats. Tlien one-half ofthe command crossed the Ohio and attacked about athousand men on the Indiana side, while Morgan,with the other lialf, turned his artillery on two gun-boats that had come down the river to prevent thecrossing, and drove them off. The rest of the com-mand then crossed over and dispersed or captured thewhole Federal force. 3. Moving on, the} captured Corydon and about1,200 citizens and soldiers, who tried to defend it. Allpillaging was forbidden as they passed through thecountry. OnW provisions for men and provender forstock were
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