Battle of Salineville The Battle of Salineville occurred July 26 , 1863 , near Salineville , Ohio during Morgan ' s Raid in the American Civil War . It was one of the northernmost military actions involving the Confederate States Army . The decisive Union victory shattered John Hunt Morgan ' s remaining Confederate cavalry and led to his capture later that day . Background . In June 1863 , Confederate Brig . Gen . John Hunt Morgan departed his camp in Tennessee on a raid with 2 , 460 troopers , intending to divert the attention of the Union Army of the Ohio from Southern forces in the state . On July 8 , 1863 , Morgan crossed the Ohio River at Brandenburg , Kentucky , and entered Indiana , in violation of his orders to remain in Kentucky . After a victory at the Battle of Corydon , Morgan proceeded eastward into Ohio , pursued by Federal troops under Brig . Gen . James M . Shackelford . On July 19 , Morgan attempted to cross the Ohio River into West Virginia at Buffington Island , upriver from Pomeroy in Meigs County , Ohio . Some of his men did make it across the river and back to the South . However , Union forces under Brig . Gens . Edward H . Hobson and Henry M . Judah captured an estimated 800 – 1 , 200 of Morgan ' s force , while some 300 under Col . Adam " Stovepipe " Johnson managed to cross upriver . General Morgan and the remaining 400 men of his command escaped , cut off from the river crossings . When another attempt to ford the river failed , he headed north , eventually reaching Columbiana County , still hoping to cross the Ohio River at some point and head back to the South . His route took him through a number of terrified villages , including Moorefield , Harrisville , New Athens , Smithfield , New Alexandria , Wintersville , Two Ridge , Richmond , East Springfield , Bergholz , and Monroeville ( Jefferson County ) . With his horses playing out and his men emotionally and physically exhausted , Morgan trudged northward while his pursuers blocked attempts to reach the river . The battle and Morgan ' s surrender . Union General Shackelford continued in pursuit of Morgan , leading a mixed command of cavalry , artillery , and mounted infantry from Illinois , Kentucky , Tennessee , Michigan , and Ohio , as well as the Steubenville Militia . Morgan ' s weary men were isolated , under constant pursuit , and heading deeper into enemy territory . Eventually , Morgan was flanked and cut off by Union forces on July 26 , 1863 at Salineville , near Lisbon , Ohio . Badly outnumbered , Morgan attempted to cut his way out from the estimated 3 , 000 Federals . He lost 364 men ( including 23 dead , several wounded , and nearly 300 captured ) in a firefight that lasted no more than an hour and a half . Remarkably , General Morgan and a small number of his men initially managed to elude capture . However , at 2 : 00 p . m . , they surrendered to Union Maj . George W . Rue of the 9th Kentucky Cavalry near West Point , Ohio approximately 8 miles northeast of Salineville . Today , a historical marker commemorates the location of the surrender . Major Rue later reported that General Morgan , upon first seeing the Major and his troops approaching , surrendered to one of his own prisoners , an Ohio Militia captain named Burbridge , who then immediately paroled Morgan and his fellow officers , an act that would have allowed them to return home to Kentucky as noncombatants . Rue disregarded that " surrender " and insisted that Morgan formally surrender to the Union forces , ignoring the paroles . Troops escorted Morgan to Columbus , Ohio , where he and many of his officers were imprisoned in the Ohio Penitentiary . Many of his captured soldiers were sent to Camp Chase and other prisoner of war camps in the North . In July and August 1863 Ohio Governor David Tod led an inquiry into Morgan ' s surrender . Governor Tod concluded that Captain Burbridge was actually James Burbick , a private citizen of New Lisbon , Ohio , who had never served an as officer in the Ohio Militia . As such , Governor Tod ruled that he had no authority over Morgan , and that Morgan ’ s surrender to Union forces stood . Another Confederate action , the St . Albans raid , was farther north than the Battle of Salineville . On October 19 , 1864 , thirty Confederates slipped southward from Canada and raided St . Albans , Vermont . However , they were not an official command of the Confederate army but probably connected to the Confederate Secret Service to conduct the St . Albans Raid . General Morgan ’ s place of surrender at West Point is considered to be the northernmost point reached by an officially organized Confederate body during the Civil War .