The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-12
THK RAID INTO KENTUCKY.
Full Particulars.
Morgan in Command.
Evacuation Of Cynthlana.
The Rebels 1900 Strong.



General Heintzelman's department
were received by General Hobson, and
dispatched down the road The l6Sth
Ohio, hundred-day men, went down to
Falmouth at l o'clock yesterday after
noon.
The bridges on the Kentucky Central
Railroad, with the exception of that at
Townsend, can be easily repaired, and
even that can be put in running order
in five days. The abutments and piers
for new bridge were nearly completed,
and the timber prepared for the super
structure. The company have every
thing in readiness to complete g new
and more permanent structure at Town
send than that destroyed.
The policy of these raiders, who were
but from 1000 to 1000 strong when
they entered the State, seems to be to
steal horses, burn bridges, and divide
into various squads to distract pursuing
troops They cannot escape in the
same direction from which they came,
for Burbridge, with a heavy cavalry
force, Is in their rear.
Last evening one Of Morgan's men ar
rived in this city, on the steamer Mag
nolia, from Maysville. He is an Irish
man by birth, shrewd, Observing man,
who thinks for himself, and expresses
his ideas very distinctly. His name is
Hugh Devlin, private IN Co. c. 9th
Confederate Battalion. At the begin
ming of the war he lived in Texas. and
was swept by the tide into the rebel
ranks; at first in a Texas regiment for
one year, and afterwards in the two
years service. His capture is due to
whisky, having drank so freely that he
was left behind, and when sObered fell
into the hands of Union men, who gave
him a quick passage - this city. He
states that they came through Pound
Gap a week ago last Sunday, passing a
Union force of 500, which was march
ing on another road toward the Salt
Works at Abingdon The rebel force is
commanded by John Morgan, and il
composed of Kentucky troops. The
only full regiment is the 4th Kentucky
Cavalry, 900 strong. There are three
battaliOns of the 10th Kentucky cav
airy and three other battaliOns, the
largest of which is the 9th Confederate
battalion, so strong. Col McAfee Of
HarrOdsburg, is with Morgan, 1t. Col
Aston, Col Smith, Of Chicago. H.,
and other well known rebel leaders.
The total force does not exceed two
thousand, although Devlin's rough guess
at first was 5000 A large portion of
these are dismounted cavalry, who suf-
fered severely in their march into the
State, and have been kept in the rear
until the cavalry could send back horses
to mount them. They are most armed
with the Confederate Enfield rifle. q
short barreled Enfield, made at Rich
mond. They have no sabers, and no
pistols except as private property
Their line of march was from Pound
Gap to Paintsville, Ky, where a scout
ing party of IL men, under the noto-
riOus Pete Eyerts, was sent in advance
to pick up horses and send back to the
main force. They passed on TO Hazel
Green, Owingville and Flemingburg,
and to MaysVille The farms of Union
men were stripped Of horses, while the
property Of rebel citizens was sacredly
protected At Flemingburg the stables
were protected by Everts orders, and
not a horse taken. Everts took Mays
vile without resistance, the Unionists
mostly crossing the river. One boat
load was hailed by the rebels, and on
their refusal 10 come back, fred into.
killing one man. Everts gathered I'D
large number of horses, and took the
Lexington pike for Mt Sterling on
Wednesday. He had orders to report
at Mt Sterling within three days from
the time he left Hazel Green. Everts'
scouting party was the first that left
MOrgans command While Devlin
does not know Of other scouting par
ties being sent out, he thinks such we're
sent in advance Morgan's main force
| he supposes is still at Mt Sterling He
has no artillery, and started with seven
days rations Morgan's design is not
to fight, but to rob, steal, and destroy
railroads as far as possible His exit
through Eastern Kentucky is an impos-
sibility, and his men expect to pass
down through Central Kentucky and
Middle Tennessee. They all expect
the war to end with this summers
campaign, knowing that every able
bodied man IN the South is now In the
field, and no reserve force can be put in
their place.
The expedition 10 the Salt Works he
admits will be successful, as there is but
q small rebel force left in that part of
Virginia. Their supplies now come from
Petersburg, and are scarcely adequate
to supply the army, the whole country
for one hundred miles each side of the
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Of supplies Morgan could not remain
there, and will not return, but will keep
west of Cumberland Gap. He had said
nothing of paying another visit TO Gin
cinnati, and did not speak very highly
of his brief sojOurn in Ohio.
The details Of the movements Of the
rebels on the Central Kentucky Rail-
road are given in the following dis
patches from our special correspondent
FIRST DISPATCH
FALMOUTH. KY, June 90 ?. M-This
far on the way to meet John Morgan.
Our train carries the lGSth Ohio Nation
al Guards, Col Garris in command, from
Highland and Fayette counties, about
500 strong Officers and men cheerful
and valiant, ready 70 meet the foe,
though Gen Hobson does not intend
to push them into danger The road il
clear so far, and no further information
has been heard Of the operations Of the
raiders at this place. Provost Marshal, 1
T. Loodsore, last night called the eiti- 1
zens and some six months recruits To- /
gether, collecting all the arms they I
could, and under homemade martial !
law, held them for defense, until de- u
tachments Of troops arrived from Gov I
ington, when pickets we're thrown out
in every direction, and safety against /
attack ensued One company Of the 4
l68th Regiment will be left here 10 do
guard duty.
SECOND DISPATCH.
BoYD SrATiox, KY, June 9.-On ar
riving here We find telegTaphic com
has not been re-established
between this point and Cynthiana.
Communication was opened with that
place, however, to-day, by sending a
locomotive up 10 Kellens Bridge, which