Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-10-04

Mr.. LincOln's election, General Morgan
returned to the United States, and i'm
mediately rendered his services to put
stop to armed rebellion and maintain the
Union. After remaining brief period
with his family, from whom he had been
separated several years, he accepted
as Brigsdier General that
had been rendered him, and was immedi-
ately assigned to the command Of an IN
dependent division, composed Of four
brigades of infantry, four batteries of ar
tillery and one battalion of cavalry
With this force, equally to the delight
and surprise Of both army and people, he
CAPTURED Cumberland Gap, holding it
firmly in his grasp until the invasion and
occupation of Kentucky by Bragg and
Kirby Smith had cut him of from all
supplies, and left him, as was feared, an
easy prey to the opposing forces by which
he was surrounded. The skin and gal
lantrv with which that noble little army
was delivered by its leader from the fate
which seemed inevitable, caused Aash
of ioy all over the land, and we're the sub
ject of high enlogy by the public press
without distinction of party. In the fol-
lowing winter General Sherman, in organ
izing an army at Memphis for his pro-
iected assault on Vicksburg, placed Gen.
eral Morgan at the head of one of its di-
visions; and in the bloody struggle of
Cbickesaw Bluffs the brunt of that fear
ful-fght was allotted to the heroic divis-
ion of Morgan.
Soon afterwards, on Sherman turning
over his command to General McClernard,
the entire army which had fought at
Cbickesaw Bluffs, vas massed into two
army corps, Sherman being assigned to
the command of one Of them and Nor
Gan of the other. Under the lead Of
these two officers, the assauIting army re-
turned up the liver, and at Arkansas Post,
in one of the sharpest and best conduct
ed battles of the war, succeeded in the
capture of Fort Hindman, and its entire
garrison of 5000 Returning with the
army to the vicinity of Vieksburg, in the
region OF DInliken's Bend, General Nor
gan's health was not sufficient to resist
the malarious influences which rendered
that region a graveyard to so many Of
our heroic soldiers. After an Intellectual
struggle of weeks to arrest the encroach-
ments of disease, he came North by medi-
cal direction. and failing in the subse-
ouent three months to regain his health,
he surrendered his commission and pa"s-
ed the ensuing summer under medical
treatment at Binghampton, New York,
During his service in the field, it is a cir
cumstance testifying unmistakably to the
confluence placed in his skill and ability
that although he held the rank of Briga'
dier General, his command was at no time
less than that of full Major General.
But although a soldier in three wars, i
is not simply his military character tha
commends General Morgan to admiration
and confidence. He is a gentleman o
liberal education, extended travel, larg,
experience and thoroughly versed in th'
e history of his country and the nature o
its institutions. Coming from a Demo
cratic stock he early imbibed, and its ia
? miliarly known throughout the State 70
! his readiness and ability in defending
+ with the pen and from the stump tn
J principles of the great party under who's
: guidance during two-thirds of our Nation
$ al existence, our country continued peace
Y full and prosperous at home and hOnOre
o abroad. In his qualities as man an
:. in his relations as a citizen, are found th
S basis of that warm attachment and regar
n which have been so ungrudgingly bestoV
o ed upon him by friends and acquaintaec
}. That such man is sure to make popr
e lar candidate and an acceptable Cht
IS Magistrate, is a point that is not likel
}, to be cUntroverted.