The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-28

TE1.E TIMES DISPATCH:
"t'm sent to warn the neighbors; he
isn't mile behind:
Hc sweeps up all the horses--every horse
lie can find.
Morgan. Morgan, the raider. and Nor
gan's terrible men.
With bowie knvcs and pistols, are gal
Looping up tho slen!"
The lad rode dorm the valley, and ]
stood still at the door;
Tho baby laughed and prattled, playing
with spools on the floor.
Kentuck was out in the pasturc; Conrad,
my man, was gone.
Near, nearer, Morgan's men were gal
Looping, galloping on!
Sudden ! picked up baby and ran to the
pasture bar.
"KcntnckH' called. Kentucky! she
knew me ever 30 far!
1 led her down the gully that turns OF
there to the right,
And tied her to the bushes. her head was
Just out OF sight
AS / came back to the log house at
once there CAME II sound,
The ringing OF hoofs, galoping hoofs.
trembling over the ground.
Coming into the turnpike out OF the
w
Morgan--Morgan the raidcr-and Nor
gans terrible mon!
AS nearer they drew and nearer, my
heart beat fast in alarm,
But still 1 stood in the doorway, with
baby on my arm.
They came: they passed; with spur and
whip in haste they sped along
Morgan-Morgan the raider--and his
band, six hundred strong.
Weary they looked and faded. riding
through night and through day
Pushing on east to the river, many
long miles away,
To the border-strip where Virginia
runs up into the West.
And fording the upper Ohio before they
could stop to rest.
on. like the wind, they hurried, and
Morgan rode In advance:
Bright We're his eyes, like live Goals,
as he gave me n sidewisc glance,
And ] was just breathing freely after
my choking pain,
When the last one of the troopers sud
denly drew his rein.
Frightened. / was. to DEATH sir;
scarce dare look in his face
AS he asked for drink of water, and
glanced around the place;
l gave him cup. and he smilcd-'twas
only boy, you see,
Faint and worn, with dim blue eyes,
and he'd sailed on the Tennessee.
Only sixteen he was. sra fond moth
er's only son
or and away with Morgan before his
life had begun:
Tho damp drops stood on his temples;
drawn was the boyish mouth:
And thought me OF the mother wait
ing down in the South.
oh! pluck was he to the backbone, and
clean grit through and through.
Boosted and Dragged like trooper,
but the big words wouldn't do:
The boy was dying, sir, dying, as plain
as plain could be,
Worn out by his ride with Morgan up
from the Tennessee.
But when I told the laddie that !, too,
was from the South,
Water came to his dim eyes, and quiz
ers around his mouth.
do YOU know the Blue Grass country?"
he wistful began to say.
Then swayed like willow sapling, and
tainted dead away.
had him in the Lighthouse, and worked
and brought him to,
fed him and coaxed him, IS I thought
his mother'd do.
ana Wnen the lad was better, and the
noise in his head was gone.
Morgan's men were miles away-gal-
Looping, galloping on.
"oh! I must CO." he mattered; 81 must
be UP and away!
Morgan, Morgan is waiting for me;
oh. what will Morgan say?"
But l heard a sound of tramping, and
kept him back from the door,
The ringing sound of horses hoofs that
l had heard before.
And on. on came the soldiers, the Mich
igan cavalry;
And fast they rode and black they
looked, galloping rapidly;
They had followed hard on Morgan's
track: they had followed day and
night,
But of Morgan and aIorgan's raiders
they had never caught sight.
And rich Ohio sat startled through all
the summer days.
For strange, wild men We're galloping
over her broad highways;
Now here. now there, now seen, now
gone, now north, now cast. nav
west;
Through river valley and cortland
farms. sweeping away her best.
A bold ride and long ride! but they
were taken at last;
They almost reached the river by gal
Looping hard and fast.
But the boys in blue were upon them
And N1organ--AIorgan the raider-laid
doWp his farrihla cUnr6