Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-08-01
ssFrom the Louisville Journal. July al
THE INDIANA RAID.

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. Front he Louisville Journal. July al
THE INDIANA RAID.
Further Details of the Invasion OF New.
! burg.
By the steamer Eugene, which re-
turned from Newburg Saturday morning
about 2 o'clock, we gather the follow
ing particulars, in addition to those pub
/ lished in Saturdays Journal:
The Eugene, with two companies Of
ieonyalescent soldiers and sectien oi
the Union Artillery, left, as stated in
saturdays journal, about 81 o'clock
proceeded by the Courier and CONNER
teial, On coming in sight of Green river
the Courier and Commercial were dis
lowered alying to-" and soon a Jet OF
smoke from a little swivel ON the Gonr-
Her s .forecastle indicated that she was
firing at some object on shore The Eu-
gene ran up Green river about mile
and landed one Of the companies, who
were deployed across the narrow PENN
Esula between the two rivers as skirmish-
ers. But the birds had flown. The
ferryman, whose wife informed our boys
that he was State Rights man, was ar
rested. and his 'shats," &C., placed in
charge of the Courier, which returned to
/ the city, while the Eugene passed on to
Newburg.
On arriving at Newburg it was found
to be nearly filed with we'll armed, res
olute men, who had focked in from the
surrounding country to drive the ma
rauders from the State Col. Foster,
after short consultation with some of
the citizens who had been robbed by the
marauders, Immediately passed over the
river with the Eugene and took posses
sion of all the fats and skiffs that he
could discover on the Kentucky side.
Some were. scuttled and others brought
to NeWburg. We thea made careful in
quiries of several of the citizens of the
town who gave US the particulars of
their humiliation as follows: .Z-...
Several citizens of the town, it is sup
posed. have been in communication with
the guerrillas for many days. Indeed,
five men heretofore living in Newburg
are known to have Joined the rebels
Their names are Robert Slaughter, VIII
liam Lukin, Andy Meford, Jim O'Con-
nell and Charles Applegate. They are
outlaws, and every citizen is justifable
in shooting them down whenever and
wherever he comes across them. The
guerrillas were thoroughly posted both
as to the defenseless condition of the
town and the earelessness of its inhabi-
tants.
On Thursday one Of the two men who
were shot-we think it was Meford-
who had been absent for several days,
returned. On Friday he was across the
river aud held consultation with John
son and his pirate gang. About noon.
ON Friday, when most of the eitizens
were away from the lauding and at their
dinners, the marauders placed their men
in the ferryboat, concealing them as
wellas possible; aud rowed rapidly across
the river. On landing In New burg
dash was made at the hospital and the
arms found there secured. Pickets and
guards were thrown out in every direc-
ton and the citizens given to understand
that their only chance of safety was in
keeping quiet johnson, the leader of
this precious pack of thieves, informed
the citizens that he had battery planted
on the opposite side of the river, and if
any resistance was made to his demands
he wonld Immediately shell and destroy
the place. The fellow is proficient Ia
lying as we'll as stealing.
With cool addacity the leader of the
gang of freebooters then made out pa
roles of honor for all the soldiers in the
hospital, which he signed as A. r. John-
son, G. S. A. Meanwhile, his men
guided by some of the citizens of the
town, commenced pillagihg. Horses
were taken out Of their stables, dwellings
entered and searched, tie hospital was
ransacked, and everything calculated to
be of any service to them was appropri-
ated. The doors of the dwelling Of Mr..
Union Bethel were broken open, and
the whole house ransaeked. The hor
ses of several gentlemen from the coun-
try we're pointed out and taken. In one
stable the fFeehooters were on the point
of taking all the horses, when one was
pointed out to them as the property Of
Jesse Fuller of Boouville, which was
passed, the scoundrels remarking that
Jesse was alright" Jesse was equally
fortunate in securing some coffee that
the thieves were about to appropriate to
their own use.
Several of the citizeHs Of the towr
mingled freely with johnson and his
gang, drank with them, and seemed
highly gratifedin having made their
acquaintance As some of those men
are under arrest, it may be proper not
to .criticise their conduct too severely
just at present.
= After remaining in town four or five
hours, the freebooters departed with
their Ill gotten gains. Andrew Huston
a resident of Newburg, helped to ferry
the scoundrels across the river, and was
very busy in carrying arms that they
had stolen from the hospital to the boat,
He was arrested by Col, Foster and
brought to this city.
After the robbers had departed, two
of the citizens, Ii. Ii. Carney and Elliott
Meford, who had been particularly ac
tive in pointing out property for seizure,
were attacked By some OF the cltlZens.
Carney was shot dead in the street, and
left lying there for several hours. lie
afterward was thrown into wagon
Meford was shot and blyoueted, but
was still alive when the boat left. We
learn that he was shot again on satur-
day morning and killed. =
One or two others, who were suspected
q l. t1, ,.halSy fo. h.