The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-12-02


securing recruits and drilling his
command Several entire new COM
panies joined him, and he was in
fair way for further venture. His
sole aim and ambition seemed to be
to gain the enemy's rear, and relieve
Kentucky from the thraldom Of her
oppressors.
Captain Gano, with body of Tex
ans, also three hundred Kentuckians,
who had been disbanded in Virginia
now Joined Morgan. A general reor-
ganization took ploce, old companies
filed to their maximum number, new
companies formed and differed. A
company of Mississippians which had
been with Bragg at Pensacola, Florida,
and a company of Alabamians, also
Joined forces with Morgan.
John H. Morgan was now regularly
elected and commissioned colonel.
Basil NJ. Duke, afterwards made
Brigadier General and second in COM
mand in all future raids) was elected
lieut., colonel and G. W. Morgan, of
Tennessee, major. His regiment being
fully formed, was known in the war
department as the End Kentucky, but
in the army, it was called "Morgan's
Men"
The command was ordered to Knox
vile, and here he set about IN dead
earnest to prepare his men for the ar
duous and dangerous duties in store
for them. He was the first to see in
either army the new purpose the cav
airy arm of the service was to be put
in the great war We had now on our
hands. No more dashing charges
where soldiers met and fought "hllt
to hilt,'' for the topography of the
country. stone wall and fencing
around cultivated fields, would not
allow the old time cavalry charge.
Morgan discorded the saber, armed
bis men with short rifles, two Colts
revolvers apiece, and fought his men
dismounted or as infantry.
= He Instituted new kind Of tactics
and drill, suitable for the kind OF
service he was training his men to
perform. Every fourth man on going
into battle, cared for the horses, lead
ing to the rear and caring for them
until the battle was over. He always
formed his men in single file, this CIV
ing him a wide front, and easily and
RAPIDLY thrown into line. The govern
ment at Richmond sent him two
'mountain howitzers" or small brass
cannons, suited for rapid cavalry SER
vice and mountain climbing.
Just before Morgan left Knoxville
for his first Kentucky raid, he was
jcined by "gentleman from abroad"
and who had a remarkable history,
Gen. Morgan made him his adjutant
general. I gave a brief sketch of this
extraordinary genius of war, in an
Easter number of The Herald and |
News last year. This last was written
by Col. Duke who was a comrade in
arms during his service with Nor
gan:
"This strange and curious person
age, was Lieut.. Col. George st. Leger
Greenfel, of the English service, and
of the remarkable characters. VINO
ever figured (outside OF noye)s) IN
this age, he will receive the sufrages
of our Western cavalrymen, for pre-
eminence in devil-may care eccentric
ity. He ran away from his father at
an early age and joined the army. He
served five years with French regI-
ment, in Algeria, quitting the SERVICE
he remained quite time in Tanglers'
Joining the Moor's when the French
bombarded that place. He served four
years in Africa, under Abd-El-hoder.
He was in Crimea, the Sepoy REBEL
lion, and with Garibaldi in South
America
After a good deal said about his love
of a fight, courting danger, and last
heard of was with Forrest, as his
inspector general. That, however, was
not the last of Greenfel. By his IN
governable temper, he fell out with
Forrest at Fort Pillow, as he had so
often done with Morgan. He quit the
service, went to Canada got mixed up
with some Fenian organization and
was preparing to liberate the Confed-
crate prisoners, stationed on an Island
in Lake Michigan, was captured, con-
demned to be hung as spy. HIS SEN
tence was commuted to life time I'M
nrisonment at the Dry-Tortugas.
While on board ship, with other pr1s-