JOHN MORGAN RAID IN
OHIO.
[The following article was written by a
veteran of the Civil War,
now a resident at the Dayton Soldiers'
Home, and was printed recently
in the Lima Times Democrat, with notes and comments by the editor of
that paper. The history of the raid and
the efforts to head off the bold
leader and his band of daredevils is
believed to be authentic. - EDITOR.]
The Army of the Cumberland, under
General Rosecrans
was preparing for the advance on the
campaign which was
checked at Chickamauga, and culminated
in the "Battle Above
the Clouds" at Lookout Mountain,
and the victory at Missionary
Ridge. At the same time General
Burnside's Army of the Ohio
was preparing for the advance into east
Tennessee, thereby co-
operating with the Army of the
Cumberland, under General
Rosecrans. All this was in the early
summer of 1863.
Out of the night marched 10,000
Confederate horsemen,
under the leadership of that most
distinguished raider, Gen. John
H. Morgan. These Confederate horsemen
were headed to the
north, and passed between the armies of
Rosecrans and Burn-
sides. The Union commanders made hasty
preparations to meet
this movement of the enemy, and within a
few hours 3,000 Union
horsemen, under command of Gen. E. H.
Hobson, were in pur-
suit of Morgan's forces.
This was the famous so-called "Ohio
raid," which extended
across the states of Kentucky, Indiana
and Ohio, and terminated
at New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio.
If Morgan had been
permitted to have gone one day longer he
could have watered
his horses in Lake Erie. This bold dash
of the Confederate
cavalry persistently pursued by the
Union horsemen for a dis-
tance of about a thousand miles,
reaching into and across the
northern states of Indiana and Ohio at
the highest tide of the
Civil War, was one of the most
interesting and certainly one of
the most picturesque events of the great
war.
A particularly striking feature of this
cavalry campaign was
that it was witnessed by more persons
than any other military
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operation of the entire war. Thousands
and tens of thousands
of citizens of Kentucky, Indiana and
Ohio thronged the line of
march taken by General Morgan and the
pursuing forces un-
der General Hobson.
General Morgan and his troopers were the
beau ideal raiders
of the South, and as such, had won great
fame. Morgan and his
chief lieutenant, General Basil Duke,
were exceedingly skilled in
misleading the Union forces, and up to
this time had been uni-
versally successful in their cavalry
operations and had effected
great damage upon the railway lines
supplying the Union armies
in the field.
General Morgan and his troopers were
most industrious in
giving out the information that his
horsemen were 10,000 in
number, but as a matter of fact they
numbered only 2,500.
After crossing Cumberland River below
Burksville, Morgan
made a rapid march across the state of
Kentucky, the first 150
miles being merely the warming-up heat.
On July 4th, at Green
River Bridge, near Columbia, he called
upon Colonel Moore, of
a Michigan regiment, guarding the
railroad bridge, to surrender
to save the effusion of blood. This
Union officer promptly re-
plied that the Fourth of July was not a
good day for surrender-
ing, and that he was prepared to effuse
all the blood that might
be called for. Morgan accepted the
challenge, made the attack,
and was speedily repulsed, losing
heavily in officers and men.
Morgan did not have time to renew the
attack, as he learned
that Colonel Frank Wolford's brigade,
comprising the First Ken-
tucky cavalry and the Seventh Ohio
cavalry, two large regi-
ments, were approaching to reinforce
Colonel Moore. Morgan
withdrew, and leaving his wounded to the
care of Colonel Moore,
continued his rapid march northward.
On the morning of the fifth of July,
Morgan attacked the
garrison at Lebanon, Ky., on its refusal
to surrender, and with
severe loss captured this garrison. In
the list of killed was Cap-
tain Tom Morgan, a brother of General John
Morgan.
We, the pursuers, expected General
Morgan to turn east-
ward before striking the Ohio River, but
in this we were mis-
taken, as, upon arriving at Brandenburg,
some forty miles below
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Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
Louisville, he seized passing steamboats
and landed his forces
in Indiana.
Before crossing the Ohio River the
Confederate leader sent
a portion of his command to threaten
Louisville, and then melt
away. He picked men mounted on the best
horses, to the num-
ber of about 2,000, comprised the
force he led on the raid north
of the Ohio River.
Following his trail, we arrived at
Brandenburg just in time
to see his rear guard disappear over the
river bank, going north-
ward into Indiana. This rear guard
stopped long enough to
wave their hats at us, and bid us
good-by. The steamboats they
had used in crossing were at that moment
bursting into flames
and burned to the water's edge, tied
fast to the Indiana shore.
Other steamboats were hurriedly obtained
and our pursuing
force, 3,000 strong, under General
Hobson was hastily trans-
ferred across the river, men and horses
being tumbled aboard
the boats in quick order, and tumbled as
quickly off on the other
side.
The appearance of Morgan's men on the
north bank of the
Ohio River created great consternation
in Indiana and Ohio.
The governor of Indiana called out the
"home guards" to the
number of 50,000 and as Morgan's advance
turned toward Ohio,
the governor (David Tod) of the Buckeye
state called out 50,000
more from his state.
At Corydon, Indiana, the "home
guards" gave the enemy
a brisk little battle, and delayed their
advance for a brief time.
At Vernon, Ind., Governor Morton, the
great war governor of
that state had a large force of
"home guards" to meet the in-
vaders. Morgan made a demand upon the
commander of this
force to surrender. This was promptly
refused, and two hours'
time asked in which to remove the women,
children and non-
combatants. General Morgan was a
chivalrous leader, and gen-
erously allowed the time asked for.
These two hours were con-
sumed by the home guards in hustling the
women, children and
the old men away from the dangers of the
battlefield, and as
the hand of time marked the expiration
of the truce, the able-
bodied citizens rolled up their sleeves,
swallowed the Adam's
apple, which had risen uncomfortably
high in their throats, and
John Morgan Raid in Ohio. 51
prepared to wipe Morgan's "critter
company" off the face of the
earth. But when they proceeded to
execute their bloodthirsty
program they found that Morgan and his
boys were ten miles
away, having flanked Vernon and
proceeded on their journey.
General Hobson's pursuing column of
which my regiment,
the Seventh Ohio cavalry, was a part,
arrived at Vernon a few
hours after Morgan's departure. We were
now marching with-
out rations, and in order to expedite
our progress, telegrams
were sent all over Indiana and Ohio,
telling the Union people
that 3,000 Union horsemen were in
pursuit of Morgan, and ask-
ing the citizens of Indiana to feed us,
that we might not be de-
layed in preparing and cooking our
rations. The citizens of In-
diana received us with the greatest joy
and enthusiasm, and from
the time of our arrival on Indiana soil
until the end of the march
in eastern Ohio, a distance of about 300
miles, our lines of pa-
triotic people, occupying each side of
the road, men, women and
children laden with good things for us
to eat, mostly fried
chicken.
Spring chickens were then just ripe,
and, in truth and lit-
erally, there were 600 miles of fried
chicken for us. You may
look upon this as an exaggeration, but I
trust it will not be so
considered. I am surprised at my
moderation in thus describ-
ing the fried chicken prepared for us on
this march, in view of
the fact that whichsoever way we turned
or whatever road we
followed, the women met us promptly with
the greatest abund-
ance of fried chicken. I am inclined to
think it would be entirely
within the bounds of truth if I
described the same as six hundred
square miles of fried chicken. All the
soldier had to do was to
fill his stomach and his haversack, the
enthusiastic citizen did
the rest.
The women of the north, like their
countrywomen of the
south, could not march, but they could
"mark time" with a sur-
prising degree of efficiency. In view of
the fact that the line
of march of Morgan's men could not be
foretold, the women of
the entire states of Indiana and Ohio
"marked time" and pre-
pared to see to it that no man of
General Hobson's forces went
hungry longer than 60 seconds. Without
this impromptu ration-
ing of the troops by the women it is
almost certain that General
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Hobson could not have carried his 3,000
troopers through to
success in overtaking, defeating and
capturing Morgan's raiders.
It was under the conditions above
described that we had the
most convincing demonstration that
veteran soldiers complain
only when they have superabundance of
food. The same men
had not a whisper of complaint to make
when, some months
later, in east Tennessee, five nubbins
of corn were issued to each
of them, this bountiful supply being
intended as a full repast
for both the troopers and his horses,
but when the troopers were
fed with nearly a hundred meals a day
for three weeks and each
meal consisted of fried chickens,
blackberry pie, crabapple jelly
and home-made biscuit, hot from the
oven, all washed down
with sweet milk or buttermilk, then it
was that the veterans
complained bitterly, crying out in
distress for their sustaining
food of "hard tack and salt
pork."
In Morgan's sweep across three states,
for a thousand miles,
he swept his line of march and for some
distance on each side,
almost clean of horses, giving his
command frequent remounts,
leaving us, his pursuers, to find mounts
with extreme difficulty.
Morgan took far more horses than needed,
but he had a purpose
in this, and this purpose was to keep
his pursuers from securing
remounts. Morgan set the pegs for us,
and set them high every
day. He had now passed the
"warming-up heat" and was get-
ting down to real work.
During the entire raid the forces under
Morgan and Hob-
son numbered about 5,000 men, starting
with 5,000 horses, but
many of these horses gave out, and were
abandoned on the road-
side, the riders securing remounts from
the country through
which they traveled. Some of the riders
wore out as many as
eight horses, and secured as many
remounts. It would be en-
tirely safe to state that the men of
Morgan's and Hobson's com-
mands employed on this expedition not
less than 25,000 horses,
averaging five horses to each soldier.
This may seem a high estimate, but Judge
Henry L. Stone,
general counsel of the Louisville &
Nashville Railway system,
who was one of Morgan's men on this
raid, states in a published
paper, that he rode down eight horses,
and adds, "although this
number was perhaps above the average to
the man, there were
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doubtless 15,000 horses ridden at different times by Morgan's
men on this raid." General Hobson's
pursuing column used not
less than 10,000 horses, Morgan deprived
us of as many mounts
as we needed, or we would have used
more.
General Morgan's command was probably
the best mounted
light cavalry that ever existed, and
while Morgan's command
obtained many remounts, they seldom
abandoned the well-bred
horses that they brought with them from
Kentucky, but allowed
them to travel light, and used them only
in great emergencies.
Morgan's men had many of the best
blooded horses of Kentucky,
horses capable of long and rapid
marches, and in justice to Gen-
eral Morgan and his officers it must be
said they handled their
men and horses with superb skill.
It was on this raid that General Morgan
established the
world's record for moving cavalry. The
longest march made by
Morgan's men at one stretch was nearly
one hundred miles in 30
hours, being the march he made from a
point in Indiana west
of Cincinnati, passing in the rear of
Cincinnati, to Williamsburg,
O. There are many individual horses that
can march 100 miles
in 30 hours, but the speed of a column
of cavalry is not measured
by the speed of its fastest and best
horses, but by the speed of its
slowest horses. Furthermore it was
Morgan's task to keep his
2,000 horses in such a condition that
they would be able to march
100 miles on any day or every day that
he might call on them for
the effort, this with only the brief
period of rest, and with small
rations.
The horses impressed by Morgan and by
Hobson as they
traveled across the three states were
not of much value as they
were soft, grass-fed animals and after
making only a few miles
at a rapid pace, set by the seasoned
cavalry horses hard as nails
and as tought as leather, were used up.
The impressed horses
were unseasoned by campaigning and were
unable to strike the
pace of the column and keep it at an
even gait day and night.
In General Morgan's command, and also
General Hobson's
there were many horses that made the
entire march from start
to finish. On this expedition I rode my
well-seasoned black
mare over the entire route to Kentucky,
when I rode into camp
at Stanford after covering more than a
thousand miles, this
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mare, "Nellie," after
recognizing our old camp pranced in side-
ways, saying to me without words,
"If there is one thing I like
better than another it is these little
thousand-mile excursions."
In his march around Cincinnati, Morgan
passed through
Glendale, one of the suburban villages
in which many Cincin-
natians have fine homes and Morgan's men
could plainly see
the lights or if it had been daylight
could have seen the city
spires of Corryville and Mount Auburn.
On our march across Indiana and Ohio
each day was very
much like the other. The only stops we
made were to feed the
horses. All the other part of the time
we were marching day
and night catching our sleep on
horseback as we went along and
one peculiarity of this march across
Indiana and Ohio was that
the people who lined the roadsides by
the thousands greeted us
universally with one and the same song.
Every one of us was
doing our level best, but none the less
these citizens tried to en-
thuse us to still greater efforts by
singing, "Rally 'Round the
Flag Boys." This song sung to us
every hour of the day and the
night, almost drove us to distraction.
Nevertheless the young-
sters in our army got their fun out of
this.
For instance, at early dawn one morning,
while we were
marching as rapidly as possible, one of
our boys discovered a
little family by the roadside,
consisting of the mother and three
daughters, who had evidently just got
out of bed to see the
soldiers. With wondering eyes and
wide-open mouths they
stood looking at us in silence. One of
our boys said that he was
surprised that this family was not
singing "Rally 'Round the
Flag." Another one in a spirit of
fun, said: "I'll start 'em up."
Thereupon he assumed character of the
general in com-
mand, and approaching this little family
group told them that his
soldiers were greatly exhausted by the
long march, and asked
this family to encourage the soldiers by
singing "Rally 'Round
the Flag." Whereupon the little
group, anxious to do their part,
started up with "Rally 'Round the
Flag Boys."
General Hobson, our commander, after the
raid was over,
went home for a few days' visit and he
relates that the clock
in his room was ticking "Rally
'Round the Flag" and the katy-
dids in his doorway sang "Rally
'Round the Flag."
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In southern Ohio many of the troopers of
my regiment
passed their own doorsteps. The second
lieutenant of my com-
pany picked up two of his own children
on the roadside, they
having run to meet him from their home
nearby, and strange to
relate, they brought him a breakfast of
fried chicken and were
singing "Rally 'Round the
Flag."
In the hill country about Piketon and
Jackson, 0., the
"home guards" delayed Morgan's
advance by felling trees across
the road, and occasionally we picked up
some of Morgan's strag-
glers. In a literal sense of the word,
these men who were not
stragglers, but were men who were worn
out and utterly ex-
hausted that further effort was
impossible. When found, these
men were asleep-not in a gentle doze-but
in deep sleep, and
we would have to roll them about roughly
to awaken them.
Often we would stand them on their feet
and they would reply
to questions, but in a dazed sort of
way, and evidently yet asleep.
On their march across the states of
Indiana and Ohio, Mor-
gan's men passed through a very rich and
prosperous region as
well as many thriving towns. The cavalry
soldier on a raid of
this kind in the enemy's country does
not draw a very fine dis-
tinction as to property rights. The
general rule is that every-
thing that is out of doors is mine, and
everything that is indoors
belongs to my messmates.
Acting upon this convenient rule the
Confederate troopers
loaded themselves and their horses with
every conceivable thing,
taken mostly from the stores of the
towns they passed through.
Not only did they provide liberally for
themselves, but they did
not forget to remember the girls they
left behind them. At all
events, they loaded themselves and their
horses, and even spring
wagons with a vast quantity of plunder,
such as muslin by the
bolt, calico by the hundred yards,
shoes, stockings, corsets, un-
derwear and gloves. The hardware stores
were by no means
neglected, from these soldiers loaded
themselves down with
skates. They lived entirely off the
country, taking bread from
the ovens, and meat from the family
larders. They quenched
their thirst with-
"Sometimes water, sometimes milk;
Sometimes apple jack, fine as
silk."
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Society Publications.
On the 18th of July, more than two weeks
after our
start at the Cumberland River, Morgan
was approaching the
Ohio River, near Buffington Island, not
far from the historic
Blennerhasset Island. In mid-summer the
Ohio River is usually
fordable at this point. Morgan was
striking for these fords ex-
pecting to cross the Ohio River into
West Virginia. General
Hobson's command was now about eight
hours in the rear of
Morgan, and our men seemed thoroughly
exhausted, and the
most of our horses were "all
in."
Under this condition General Hobson
ordered the picked
men and horses of three regiments, the
Seventh Ohio cavalry,
under Colonel Israel Garrard; the
English Michigan cavalry, un-
der Colonel William P. Sanders, and the
Second Ohio cavalry,
all under the command of Colonel A. V.
Kautz of the last named
regiment, with two pieces of artillery
pressed forward to make a
supreme effort, sparing neither man nor
horse to bring Morgan
to bay and compel him to fight before he
could ford the Ohio
River. It was my good fortune to be
selected as a factor in this
forlorn hope. This force of picked men
tightened their belts,
took up their saddle girths two holes
and sprang into their sad-
dles for the sixteenth consecutive
all-night march on the evening
of July 18th.
Colonel A. V. Kautz, the commander of
the flying column,
was one officer of the regular army, who
had previously com-
manded our brigade, and we were only too
glad to follow his
flag, which we felt certain would lead
to victory. As we sprang
into our saddle for this final effort,
General Hobson bade us God-
speed, and assured us of his prompt
support in every way with
the remainder of the force under his
command. Our flying
column moved rapidly through the summer
night. Little was
said by the men or officers as the night
hours passed rapidly by
"Like a phantom troop in Dreamland:
"On the march, each wind-shod troop
the purple midnight through,
Now at a walk, now at a trot, as though
passing to review;
With sabers drawn and misty banners
waving all.
And drifting upward to the stars an
inspiring bugle call,
The phantom sounds of battle float along
the peopled air,
Muffled commands - the captain's shout
and - hark! A distant cheer."
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Just as the sky was growing gray with
the coming dawn on
July 19th the welcome sound
of a few shots by our advance
guard told us we had struck Morgan's
outposts. Colonel Kautz
immediately pushed his command forward
at a brisk gait. Rid-
ing into the valley of the Ohio near
Buffington Island, we de-
veloped Morgan's force where it had been
delayed in a fog, wait-
ing for daylight to ford the river into
West Virginia. Morgan's
2,000
horsemen were waiting in the lower end of
the valley,
which lay between the hills and the
river. The Union troops,
under General Judah (including General
Seammon's detach-
ments from the Kanawha Valley, coming up
the river from
Pomeroy, where the steamboats had landed
them, approached
the enemy about the same time our
vanguard of General Hob-
son's force, led by Colonel Kautz, began
the descent into the
middle of the valley occupied by Morgan.
We attacked bird
cages, sleigh bells and even pieces of
artillery, answering Judah's
guns, told Morgan that those who had
followed him from the
Cumberland River had closed in on him.
In one of the numerous hot rear guard
skirmishes that took
place both before and after Judah's
troops had arrived on the
scene, Major McCook, father of
"Fighting McCooks," was
mortally wounded by a Confederate
bullet. This was on the
West Virginia side. Major McCook was a
paymaster in the
army, who, in his fiery ardor and
patriotic zeal, had joined the
column in the capacity of a volunteer
aide, and, pushing forward
into the thick of the fight received the
death wound. The writer
of this bracketed annotation upon
Colonel Allen's vivid sketch
saw Major McCook immediately after he
was shot, lying on a
cot in a farm house on the West Virginia
bank of the Ohio
River. He was shortly afterward placed
on board a steamboat
bound for Cincinnati, and died two days
later.
With the rising of the sun the fog
lifted, showing the gun-
boats in the river (tinclads, as they
were called), and all hope
of escape for Morgan by the shallow bar
was gone.
Some succeeded in getting beyond this
gorge to continue
their flight, though many dismounted and
disabled were captured
here, while some halted a short distance
beyond the forest clad
hills to surrender rather than continue
a hopeless flight.
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One attachment of Confederates
surrendered and came un-
der my command. After escorting this
detachment to our lines I
found that during my absence Colonel
Garrard had continued the
pursuit of such as had escaped at the
sunken gorge, but before
going had left a detachment of the
Seventh Ohio cavalry to wait
for my return with orders for me to
remain with the prisoners
on the river bank until further orders
from him.
Then prisoners and guards rested for a
few minutes on the
river bank, all gazing wistfully at the
water. It must be borne
in mind that both Morgan's and Hobson's
command had been in
the saddle for about three weeks, during
all of which time we
had ridden in the gray clouds of dust
which our thousands of
horses raised on the country roads in
mid-summer and these
clouds were so dense that it was
impossible for the riders to see
his horses' ears and it can readily be
seen that under these cir-
cumstances a bath would be most
desirable.
As we sat on the river bank first one
man then another asked
permission to go to the water's edge to
wash his face, till soon
about one-half of the men, both Union
and Confederate, were
at the water's edge washing their hands
and faces and digging
the dust out of their eyes, ears and
nostrils. This proved to be
such a half-way sort of business and so
unsatisfactory that the
men asked to go in swimming. Recognizing
the merit of the
request I gave permission for one-half
the guards to go in swim-
ming together and the other half to
stand by and take their turns.
The men stripped off and soon both
sides, "Yankees" and "John-
nies" were splashing in water
together, enjoying the most nec-
essary bath they ever had in their
lives. The first detachment
having completed their scrubbing the
second detachment took
their turn.
While men were bathing one of the
Confederates turned to
me and pointing to the naked soldiers in
the water, said: It is
difficult to tell t'other from which
meaning that he found difficulty
in telling "Yankee" from
"Johnnie" when they were stripped
naked. I quickly agreed with him as I
was at that moment de-
bating in my mind whether there was any
danger of "getting the
babies mixed" but a glance at the
men in dusty blue on the shore
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with their Spencer carbines re-assured
me and I permitted the
boys to gambol in the water to their
hearts content.
After the bath the guards shared their
fried chicken in their
haversacks with the prisoners and we
spread ourselves out on the
grass under the shade of the trees in
regular picnic fashion rest-
ing and waiting for orders.
One of the officials with General Duke
gave me a little Con-
federate flag about the size of my two
hands. I accepted this
little flag and asked the name of the
officer. He replied "Cap-
tain Hines." He recently died at
Frankfort, Ky., and at the time
of his death was chief Justice of the
state court of appeals.
"He jests at scars who never felt a
wound." This quotation
suggests itself by reason of the fact
that under the varying for-
tunes of war less than four months after
the events spoken of in
a sharp cavalry engagement in east
Tennessee I found myself a
prisoner of war in the hands of the
Fourth Kentucky cavalry of
Giltner's brigade one of Morgan's
regiments, but made my es-
cape in twelve hours.
The Ohio raid practically ended at
Buffington Island, al-
though Morgan himself was not captured
there, but with a small
portion of his men escaped and fled to
Lake Erie, being captured
at Lisbon in Columbiana County, Ohio,
within one day's ride of
Lake Erie.
From the moment of Morgan's landing on
the Indiana side
of the Ohio river until his defeat at
Buffington's Island, not less
than 100,000 "home guards"
were called out to suppress him.
One can but admire the skill and courage
of Morgan and Duke,
which enabled them to lead the 2,000
troopers on such a raid baf-
fling for so long the efforts of so many
men to capture them.
Gunboats, steamboats, ferryboats,
cavalry, infantry, artillery,
all joined in pursuit, but none were
more helpful than the women
with their rations of fried chicken.
Without this assistance from
the women of Indiana and Ohio, it is
doubtful if General Hob-
son could have carried his 3,000
troopers through to victory, and
it may truly be said that the capture of
Morgan and his men was
largely due to the assistance given to
the troops by the women of
Indiana and Ohio.
JOHN MORGAN RAID IN
OHIO.
[The following article was written by a
veteran of the Civil War,
now a resident at the Dayton Soldiers'
Home, and was printed recently
in the Lima Times Democrat, with notes and comments by the editor of
that paper. The history of the raid and
the efforts to head off the bold
leader and his band of daredevils is
believed to be authentic. - EDITOR.]
The Army of the Cumberland, under
General Rosecrans
was preparing for the advance on the
campaign which was
checked at Chickamauga, and culminated
in the "Battle Above
the Clouds" at Lookout Mountain,
and the victory at Missionary
Ridge. At the same time General
Burnside's Army of the Ohio
was preparing for the advance into east
Tennessee, thereby co-
operating with the Army of the
Cumberland, under General
Rosecrans. All this was in the early
summer of 1863.
Out of the night marched 10,000
Confederate horsemen,
under the leadership of that most
distinguished raider, Gen. John
H. Morgan. These Confederate horsemen
were headed to the
north, and passed between the armies of
Rosecrans and Burn-
sides. The Union commanders made hasty
preparations to meet
this movement of the enemy, and within a
few hours 3,000 Union
horsemen, under command of Gen. E. H.
Hobson, were in pur-
suit of Morgan's forces.
This was the famous so-called "Ohio
raid," which extended
across the states of Kentucky, Indiana
and Ohio, and terminated
at New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio.
If Morgan had been
permitted to have gone one day longer he
could have watered
his horses in Lake Erie. This bold dash
of the Confederate
cavalry persistently pursued by the
Union horsemen for a dis-
tance of about a thousand miles,
reaching into and across the
northern states of Indiana and Ohio at
the highest tide of the
Civil War, was one of the most
interesting and certainly one of
the most picturesque events of the great
war.
A particularly striking feature of this
cavalry campaign was
that it was witnessed by more persons
than any other military
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