File:Ohio in the war; her statement, generals and soldiers (1893) (14762671775).jpg

Identifier: ohioinwarherstat00reidw (find matches)
Title: Ohio in the war; her statement, generals and soldiers
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912
Subjects: Ohio. Militia Ohio -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Ohio
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, Eclectic Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Confeder servile When Morgan rode into town, a few hours later, the boats were ready for Ms Indiana had just driven out a previous invader-Captain Hines of Morgan's command, who, with a small force, had crossed over to stir up the Copperheads, as the Eebel accounts pleasantly express it. Finding the c unl too hot for him, he had retired, after doing considerable damage; and in Wdenburg he was now awaiting his chief Preparations were at once made for crossing over. But the men crowding down incautiously to the river bank, revealed their presence to the militia on the Indiana side, whom Captain Hiness recent performance had made unwontediy watchful. They at once opened a sharp fusillade across the stream with musketry and wit an old cannon, which they had mounted on wagon wheels Morgan speedily silenced this fire by bringing up his Parrott rifles; ttn hastily dismounted two of his regiments and sent them across. The milik retreated news of pronhft: ° °°^ - - ° *=» ^^-- - ^^O »K-« M - the
Text Appearing After Image:
Morgan Raid. 137 and the two Eebel regiments pursued. Just then a little tin-clad, the Springfield, which Commander Leroy Fitch had dispatched from New Albany on the first news of something wrong down the river, came steaming toward the scene of action. Suddenly checking her way, writes the Eebel historian of the raid, she tossed her snub nose defiantly like an angry beauty of the coal-pits, sidled a little toward the town, and commenced to scold. A bluish-white funnel-shaped cloud spouted out from her left-hand bow, and a shot flew at the town, and then changing front forward she snapped a shell at the men on the other side. I wish I were sufficiently master of nautical phraseology to do justice to this little vixens style of fighting; but she was so unlike a horse, or even a piece of light artillery, that I can not venture to attempt it. He adds that the Eebel regiments on the Indiana side found shelter, and that thus the gunboat fiie proved wholly without effect. After a little Morgan tr

Note About Images