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Title: Famous adventures and prison escapes of the civil war
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 Pittenger, William, 1840-1904 Richards, A. E. (Adolphus Edwards), 1844-1920 Duke, Basil Wilson, 1838-1916 Willcox, Orlando B Hines, Thomas Henry Moran, Frank E Shelton, W. H. (William Henry), 1840-1932? Wood, John Taylor
Subjects: Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916 Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875 Libby Prison Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862 Morgan's Ohio Raid, 1863
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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f ourmen, who had been separated from the force on theexpedition into Indiana and Ohio. These men wereplaced under my command, and thence we moved di-rectly toward the Tennessee River, striking it aboutfifteen miles below Kingston, at Bridgess Ferry, De-cember 13. There was no boat to be used in crossing,and the river was very high and angry, and about onehundred and fifty yards wide. We obtained an axfrom a house near by, and proceeded to split logs andmake a raft on which to cross, and by which to swimour horses. We had learned that two miles and a halfbelow us was a Federal cavalry camp. This stimulatedus to the utmost, but notwithstanding our greatest ef-forts we were three hours in crossing over five horsesand twenty-five men. At this juncture the enemyappeared opposite, and began to fire on our men.Here Greneral Morgan gave characteristic evidence A EOMANCE OF MORGANS ROUGH-EIDEES 175 of devotion to his men. When the firing began heinsisted on staying with the dismounted men and
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taking their chances, and was dissuaded only by myearnest appeal and representation that such a coursewould endanger the men as well as ourselves. The 176 ADVENTUEES AND ESCAPES IN THE CIVIL WAR men, by scattering in the mountains, did ultimatelymake their way to the Confederacy. Greneral Morgan, myself, and the four mounted mencrossed over a spur of the mountains and descendedby a bridle-path to a ravine or gulch upon the op-posite side, and halted in some thick underbrush aboutten steps from a path passing along the ravine. Notknowing the country, it was necessary to have infor-mation or a guide, and observing a log cabin abouta hundred yards up the ravine, I rode there to getdirections, leaving General Morgan and the others ontheir horses near the path. I found at the house awoman and some children. She could not direct meover the other spur of the mountain, but consentedthat her ten-year-old son might go with me and showthe way. He mounted behind me, and by the timehe was seated I

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