The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-10-27
How Gen. John Morgan was Betrayed
and SLANT

Sallesviile, Ohio, July 26, I863-he wa,
taken TO Cincinnati, and for couple Of
days kept under strong guard together
with nearly all the Offices captured will
Aim, at Ninth Street Station House
Thence they were removed to the peni
| tentiary at Columbus. Their heads were
shaved as ifthey had been common felons
an outrage never yet fully accounted for
Greely says, that this treatment was
certainly not ordered by the govern
ment." Seven of these officers, including
Morgan, were quartered in the warden'l
room for special safety, that being re-
ported as the most difficult of ell places
In the prison to effect an escape from
They y-ere Imprisoned about August
1862. BY the Goth of the next Novem.
Der tunnel had been excavated from the
room to beyond the inner prison wall.
On the night Of November &c tho en-.
tire seven crawled through the tunnel
and made good their escape. The outer
wall was not guarded, and the sentry.
box nearest the tunnels outer end fur
nished the fugitives convenient shelter
where they changed their clothes. They
crossed the we'll at different points and
each took the way he thought best cal.
culated to facilitate his final deliverance
Morgan and Captain Jim Hines, the lat.
ter as perfect dare. devil as ever drew q
sabre, went directly to the Cleveland
Columbus, and Cincinnati depot, arriving
just in time to board train for Cincinnati
AT l o'clock in the morning, when they
arrived near the Ohio river, above the
city, Morgan and Hines were stationed en-
the platform of the two rear cars. At
concentrated signal they set the brakes
With all their strength. The train
promptly Stacked speed. The two fugi-
tives jumped off, rolled down the bank
of shallow fill and lay quietly at the
bottom in the darkness until the cars
had regained full speed. They then
made their way to the river and were
ferried over. They soon found shelter,
food and horses in Kentucky. They kept
company only few days and then Nor
gan struck out boldly for the Confeder-
ate lines in North Georgia, which he
reached, after several narrow escapes and
much hardship, about the 10th of De-
cember. He proceeded to Richmond
and was good deal lionized there. In
response to an admiring party who
treated him to n serenade he made a
speech, in which he declared that he and
his fellows had escaped without aid from
any one outside the prison. He did
not say, however, that they had no help
from persons inside the walls.
The Confederate authorities ordered
Morgan to gather up force, including
as many as could be found of his old
raiders, for operations in East Tennessee.
He did not find many of the old
command, and was fitted out with in
different material in men and armament.
He took such as he had into South
west Virginia late in the winter of 1868
4. In the Spring they were kept in
camp in Southern Kentucky awhile, re-
cruiting and drilling. 1t was a bad
crowd, made up of odds and ends, deser-
ters from both armies, skulkers who had
lodged the conscript officers, ruffians
and thieves, who could not bo made into
decent soldiers unless they should be re-
made morally. A party Of them robbed
bank in Lancaster. in may. 1864. and
the command was hastily and without
orders from Richmond marched into up
per East Tennessee.
Early in August, 1864, General Alvin
@. Gillem was sent into Eastern Tenne-
see with brigade of five Tennessee cav
airy regiments and battery especially to
look after Morgan. Gillem went up to
there inactive for nearly month he re-
ceived word from scouts and citizens that
Morgan's force had moved from the east
and occupied Greenville and the sur
rounding country. Greenville is seven.
ty-five miles east Of Knoxville and TWEEN.
ty miles east of Bulls gap. Gillem got
notice of the advancing of the enemy on
the evening of September 8. He moved
the Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry in ad-
vance accompp- :ed by Major Sewell's
Battalion of the Tenth Michigan cavalry
at II o'clock that night. This party was
commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Will.
liam II. Ingerton. The night was as
dark as VOLTS and n terriGc series ol
storms of rain, thunder and lightning
ragged from early in the evening until
after daylight on the 4th. When the ad:
vance command had reached n point
about two or three miles west of Green.
vile they were ordered to halt by cou-
rier sent forward by the General until
Gillem came up with the main force
He arrived at 2 o'clock in the morning.
About the time the brigade was con-
centrated q woman from Greenville drip
ping with rain and on horseback was
conducted to the spot, apart, where the
General and his officers were consulting
Her name was Bacon. She was an al
legged widow, formerly Of Ohio. In re-
ality she was an adventures, and ex-va-
riety actress, anxious to cause q sensation
get herself talked about among the off.
GERS of the armies and mentioned in re.
ports and newspapers. This woman cor.
rectly told Gillem the situation at Green
vile.
Morgan was sleeping Mt the mansion
of Mrs. Williams in the centre of the
town and directly on tie Bulls Gap
street. "Dick" Morgan's regiment was
in camp in field short distance west
of the town, and that side alone was
picked. Duke, with the main force lay
nearly mile east Of where Morgan had
.otired for the night. Gillem at once
ordered Ingertor 70 proceed TO Green
vile with his regiment and Newell's bat
talon. Captain Roberts, of the Tenth
Michigan, and Captain Wilcox, of the
Thirteenth Tennessee were sent in ad-
vance with their companies. Wilcox
when within three fourths of a mile OF
the village got glympse of the Confed-
crate reserve picket in the road. he
proposed to Roberts to make dash into
fhe town with view of surrounding the
house where Morgan was in bed, cap
turing him and staff and trust to luck to
get out. Roberts was ready for any en-
terprise and closed eagerly with his su-
perior's daring proposition.
MoRaAN's DEATH.
"Forward! ! Trot! Gallop! Charge p
rang out On the air and on the ears of the
startled, astonished Confederate sentr;es
Thew were literally ridden over by Ibe