Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-02-17
MORGAN'S RAIDERS.
THE FAMOUS ROUGH RIDING CAM
PAiGh OF THE CIVIL WAR.

EE%ET%@E%&$gSHs-rE -'H.-sh 20 t"
re Carried Panic and Confusion Into
1 ard Ind1ana. hat Resulted In
No BENEFIT whatever to the Confed-
crate Cause.
CavalY#*riding," said the major. sis
exciting, but very exhausting business.
Long distance raids in an enemy's
country can be made only where there
are d good many horses. John Morgan
could never have made his raid
through Indiana and Ohio in 1868 If
the counties raided had not been well.
supplied with the best horses in the
west. When he started from the Cum
berland river, in east Tennessee, Nor
gan believed that he would sweep
everything before him and that, if
properly supported. be would capture
Cincinnati. &ES !,
Morgan, with a well organized bri-
gade of cavalry 4,0e0 strong, swept
northWard from the Cumberland river
through Kentucky to the Ohio river at
Brandenberg, 40 miles below Louis
vile. There he captured two steam
boats, crossed the river, swept through
southern Indiana, galloped around Gin
cinnati, nee more than ten miles from
the city, and then moved eastward,
expecting to cross the Ohio river at
Burlington, but was driven back, made
another attempt at We1lsville, but was
finally captured at New Lisbon.
This was the most remarkable raid
of the war. It;earried panic and con-
fusion into Ohio and Indiana, but in
results it was of no benefit whatever
to the Confederate cause. Morgan be-
iieyed that there would be an uprising
IN the Confederate interest in Ken
tucky. There was not. He believed
that the peace Democrats in Ohio
would give him at least secret support,
but when his men stole the horses Of
the peace Democrats the latter Joined
the ranks OF Morgan's pursuers, and
before the raid was half over the
whole state was aroused, and men
who had taken no interest in the war
previous TO that time shouldered their
squirrel rifles to fight the raiders who
were stealing their horses and carry
ing the horrors Of war to their very
doors. s II s=s # sH Y
There was hard riding all the time
for Morganss men. They left behind
them a Wreckage Of broken down
horses. They Kept ahead of their I'm
ion pursuers simply because they stole
horses right and left and remounted
tslie men, but they were finally captur-
ed. and that fall Ohio gave the war
party the largest majority in the his
terry q the state up to that time. In
fact.sfh Il Morgan raid, BY carrying the
war into the peaceful districts of In
diana and Ohio, provoked a furious
feeling resentment, which influ-
eneed people for 20 years.
Title comedy of the raid was fur
nished by the. people of the districts
wholly unused to war, wholly UMPIRE
pared for 1T and with exaggerated
ideasof the ~ferocity OF Morgan's men.
For two weeks 1t was only necessary
ON mischieyous boy to shout,
sIorganis coTninglt in any village ii
central orsouthern Ohio to create a
panic know that many Of the raiders
after Morgan gotno rest night or day,
slept ID the saddle, and not a feWSof
them fell Of flleir horses ii sleep.
b d off the raid they were as ex-
haustad as Morgan's E but with
more difficult task to perform they
never received half the praise given
4 Tie raiders.
remember ,'eontinued the major,
~ III which d wo1aan stabbed
her carTtaga horses FIJI the parlor Tor
two days to keep them out DC Nor
ant hands saw Morganss men ride
by that house and saw some Of them
sop &c listen at the unusual sound of
horses feet on carpeted floor, but The
paFlor horses were notdlsturBed. Some
BIT our neighbors drove their horses,
cattIe and sheep 30 miles into the in.
terdor and were away from home d
x4e Moggan's rneI looted rizht and