The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-17

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 H IFTY- TWO years ago the greatest
 war that this nation has known A or, happily, will ever know thrust hideous tentacle across the state border and set all Ohio trembling.
 Fifty-two years ago tomorrow that dashing Confederate cavalry officer, Gen. John H. Morgan, entered Ohio at Harri- son, in Hamilton county, at the head of a force estimated at 5000 men. That he did not capture Cincinnati, which was virtually at his mercy, can be ascribed to the fact that he was a raider at the head of raiding force.
 His purpose seems to have been to make demonstration that would terrify the entire state, and, incidentally the entire north. In this he succeeded
 Morgan had come storming up through Kentucky, had crossed the Cumberland river and captured 400 federal troops at Lebanon, had burned the town and con tinued northward. On July g, at the head of 4ooo hard riders, he crossed the Ohio at Bradenburg, 40 miles below Louis- vile.
 His force had dropped to less than 5000 when he entered Ohio and galloped by Cincinnati, coming within F miles of the
 city as he passed to the eastward.
 Instantly the news of the Morgan raid
 was flashed across the state It was ex- aggerated and twisted and expanded. It was not a raid;- it was the concerted demonstration of Confederate division of veteran fighters. It would sweep the defenseless state. The Morgan cavalry that was watered in the Ohio would be watered in Lake Erie before the week had passed. The newspaper and tele- graph offices were mobbed. From every camp and recruiting station in the state men were hurried southward. From West Virginia and from Kentucky seasoned troops rushed to meet the raider. It was an hour of awakening. The militia service of the state had been neglected. The home guard had
 been forgotten. Like the other middle
 west states, Ohio had reposed in fancied security. The state was sending out more than it's quota to the front. It had given no thought to the safety of home and firesde The lesson of the panic of '62 which had drawn the Squirrel Hunt CTS of the defense of Cincinnati had been forgotten. Now it was recalled with a vengeance.
 The awakening was thorough one. It is believed that before the raid ended there were fully 5000 pursuers at the heels of the raiders, closing in on them
 as they clattered through the southern tier of counties.
 Yet Morgan defied them in 8 gallant fashion. He was no swashbuckler. and whose courage was mere recklessness. He
 was adroit, quick, strategical, and when he struck blow 1t stung. In that hard ride his trail led through Hamilton. Cler- mont. Brown. Adams. Pike. Jackson,
 Clinton, Athens. Gallia, Meigs, Morgan, Guernsey, Harrison. Jefferson and Co., | lumbiana counties, finally reaching a point that was within a scant 100 miles
 of Cleveland.
 l Had the raider decided to gallop straight northward instead of parallel with the
 river. it is quite possible that he would lave reached the Cuyahosa and had l Cleveland at his mercy.
 l It is interesting at this late day to fol- low the daring cavalryman's route. l After passing Cincinnati. he rode ! through New Baltimore in the valley of
 ths assat 1xaamis through Glendale and