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Title: Ohio in the war : her statesmen, her generals, and soldiers
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912
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Publisher: Cincinnati New York : Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ossing. Indiana had just driven out a previous invader—Captain Hines, of Mor-gans command, who, with a small force, had crossed over to stir up the Cop-perheads, as the Rebel accounts pleasantly express it. Finding the countrytoo hot for him, he had retired, after doing considerable damage; and in Bran-denburg he was now awaiting his chief Preparations were at once made for crossing over. But the men crowdingdown incautiously to the river bank, revealed their presence to the militia onthe Indiana side, whom faptain lliness recent performance had made unwont-edlv watchful. They at once opened a sharp fusillade acro.sH the stream withmusketry and with an old cannon, which they had mounted on wagon wheels.Morgan speedily silenced this fire by bringing up his Parrott rifles; then hastilydismounted two of iiis rcigimimts and sent them across. The militia retreated^ •fiorne horrible barbiiriticH to one or two of tlicHC prisonerfl were cliarged jigninHt linii in thenewapaperH of the day.
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Morgan Raid. 137 and the two Eebel regiments pursued. Just then a, little tin-clad, the SjJiiiig-field, which Commandei- Leroy Filch had dispatched from New Albany on thefirst news of something- wrong down the river, came steaming toward the sceneof action. Siidilenly checking her wa), writes the Rebel historian of theraid,* she tossed her snub nose defiantly, like an angr) beautj of tiie coal-pits, sidled a little toward the town, and commenced to scold. A bluish-whitefunnel-shaped cloud spouted out from her left-hand bow, and a shot flew at thetown, and then changing front forwai-d she snapped a shell at the men on theother side. I wish I were sufficiently master of nautical phraseology to dojustice to this little vixens style of fighting; but she was so unlike a hoi-se, oreven a piece of light artillery, that I can not venture to attempt it. He addsthat the Tvei)el regiments on the Indiana side found shelter, and that thus thegunboat fire proved wholly without efiect. After a littl

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