The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-16
WITH MORGAN's RAIDERs.


TFrom the Chicago Inter Ocean.l
Cavalry riding, said the MaJor. Is ,s ex-
distance raids in an enemy's country can
be made only where Inere ar ,l syer
have made his raid through Indiana ana
Ohio in 1868 If the counties raiqed flso no. nor
in the west. when he started from the
Cumberland river, in east Tennessee, MOI
gan believed that he could sweep every
fling before him. and that if properly
supported he would capture Cincinnati.
Of cavalry four thousand strong, swept
northWard from the Cumperiand river
Prandenberg. forty miles below Louisville.
There he captured two steam boats, crosse
ana salioped around Cincinnati, not more
than ten miles from the city. and then
ohio river at Burlington, but was driven
back made another attempt at WeilSVlAes
s.Trhis was the most remarkable raid of
the war It carried panic and confusion
into Ohio ana lndlana Dut u ~. Sso,sa5
of no benefit whatever 70 tne So 3l,t5Y5
crate cause Morgan bel1eved there ~oulo 1
be uprising in the Con1edera4Iss iIt5I rs
ing Kentucky There vas not. u Dsns1H 7
ed that the copperheads in ONO would
give him at least secret support, but wnen
his men stole the horses q the =, SS 49,
heads or the peace Demo Gratis, the latter
Joined the ranks Of Morgan-s pursuers,
and before the raid was mar over the
whole state was aroused. and men who
had taken no interest in the war previous
to that time shouldered their squirrel rlles
TO tight the raiders who We're stealing
their horses and carrying the horrors Of
There was hard riding all the time for
Morgan's men, They lett behind tnem q
wreckage of broken-down horses They
kept ahead of their Union pursuers simply
because they stole horses right and left
and remounted the men, but they were
dnsllv captured. and that fall Ohio gave
the war party the largest majority IN the
history Of the state up to that time. In
fact the Morgan raid by carrying the
war into the peaceful districts OF 1nulana
and Ohio, provoked q furious Iee5,ns OF OF
resentment, Wnlcn inhuehced peoPie AOl
'sThe comedy of the raid was furnished
by the people of the districts wholly un-
used to war, wholly unprepared for it and
with exa ggerated ideas of the ferocity Of
Morgan's men. For two weeks II was
only necessary for some nnischievous boy
to shout Morgan is comingI in any VII
1age in central or southern Ohio to create
a panic. / know that many OF the r-qers
after Morgan got no rest night OF day,
fell off their horses IN sleep At tne emu
of the raid they We're as exhausIed as
task to perform they never received half
the praise given to the raiders nr,4o~
Zone case in which woman stabbed her
carriage horses in the parlor for two days
to keep them OUT OF , a1orea .l ma nahq bo,,sa
and saw some of them stop to listen at
the unusual sound of horses feet on the
carpeted floor but the parlOr horses were
not disturbed. Some Of cur neighbors
drove their horses, cattle and sheep thirty
miles into the interior, ana We're away
from home a. week Morgan's men looted
right and left. and some OF them nad
bolts of calico strapped to their saddles
when they were captured
Morgan it must be remembered, made
his whole raid with artillery and a wagon
train. but he was not in Ohio to fight. and
he demonstrated at once the ease with
which peaceful district may be invaded
by a mobile column, and at the same time
the peril involved in such a venture In
a few days Fifty thousand militiamen were
in. the field against him. AT first he
played with these green soldiers, but at
last they hung on his tanks. eager to
fight as bulldogs In the last days Hob
sons men. who had followed Morgan for
hundreds of miles through three states.
closed in their old enemies with a giee-
fulness that exceeded anything of the
kind I ever saw in the army, and Judah 8
men closing in on the other side, settled
the fate of the raiders.
s.Morgan's men knew by the naaneuver-
ing and firing when they were faced by
trained soldiers, and the first charge Of
the Union cavalry had in il the Impetus
of DELAYED vengeance. The Unionists who
rode in that charge had old scores to set
tie and A1Organ's tired veterans were
overwhelmed After Morgan had escaped
from the penitentfary at Columbus and
had reorganized his command and was
again rafding Kentucky. hundreds of
Union soldiers on their way home for dis
charge left their trains and Joined in the
pursuit simply to get a crack at the old
raider and Morgan knew when their
rifles spoke that he was up against the
real thing.