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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), 6. Confederate raids in the West: Morgan's Christmas raid, 1862-63 (search)
6. Confederate raids in the West: Morgan's Christmas raid, 1862-63 John Allan Wyeth, M. D., Ll.D., Late ofrmy in western Tennessee and northern Mississippi. Morgan with two brigades, Duke's and Breckinridge's, thirtifles of the Enfield, Austrian, or Belgian make. Morgan's troopers were mostly young men from eighteen to tes of the Second Michigan Cavalry with no idea that Morgan's men were near, rode into sight a few yards away. ber of Union soldiers guarding the track. Here General Morgan overtook the scouts. Attached to his staff wasthe wire was tapped, I sat within a few feet of General Morgan and heard him dictate messages to General Boyleled rails and made fires until late at night, while Morgan was making a detour along a narrow and little-used 2d, where we recrossed the Cumberland. This was Morgan's most successful expedition. The Louisville and N nearly six months before he was ready to advance. Morgan's destruction of the Louisville and Nashville Railr
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 7 (search)
tions of the General John H. Morgan, C. S. A. Morgan was a partisan leader who differed in method from Mma to Chattanooga. To cover the retreat he ordered Morgan to ride into Kentucky with a picked force, breakingosecrans' detachments, and threatening Louisville. Morgan left Burkesville July 2d, with 2,640 men and four g thousand soldiers were watching the Cumberland but Morgan, exceeding his instructions, effected a crossing ana and Ohio were alive with the aroused militia, and Morgan fled eastward, burned bridges and impressed horses,to the headquarters of the army. At other times, Morgan's operator would cut in on the Federal telegraph liat even cipher messages were not entirely safe from Morgan's men. As Morgan was promoted from grade to gradMorgan was promoted from grade to grade, and the size of his command increased accordingly, he became more and more of an annoyance and even a terroupon Union outposts and wagon trains. The death of Morgan occurred near Greeneville, Tennessee, on September