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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1863., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., John Morgan in 1864. (search)
John Morgan in 1864. by Basil W. Duke, Brigadier-General, C. S. A. General John H. Morgan escaped from the prison at Columbus, Ohio, November 27th, 1863, Generals Morgan and Duke and sixty-eight other officers of Morgan's command, captured in Ohio, at the close of July, 1863 [see Vol. III., p. 634], were confined in the State penitentiary at Columbus. On the night of November 27th, Morgan and Captains J. C. Bennett, L. D. Hockersmith, C. S. Magee, Ralph Sheldon, Samuel Taylor, and Thomas H. Hines escaped from their cells, having cut a way through the cell-walls into an air-chamber, and tunneled the outer foundation-walls of the prison at the end of the chamber. The tools used in cutting away the masonry and the earth were two small knives, and the work was accomplished in twenty days, of five hours labor each day. After leaving the prison the party separated. General Morgan and Captain Hines took the cars at Columbus for Cincinnati. At Cincinnati they crossed into Kentucky
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], East Tennessee. (search)
til aid can teach him from Grant. At that time, Wednesday night, Longstreet was yet before Knoxville, the orders sent to him by Bragg to abandon the siege and rejoin him not then having reached Longstreet. A dispatch from Chattanooga says that sufficient reinforcements, under Gen. Gordon Granger, have been sent to Gen. Burnside to insure his success. Escape of Gen. Morgan from the Ohio Penitentiary — he telegraphs his arrival in Canada. Major General John Morgan, with Captains J. C. Bennett, S. B. Taylor, Ralph Sheldon, T. I. Hines. L. Q. Hokersmith, and S. T. Magee, made his escape from the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus, on Friday night, and has reached Toronto, Canada, with his companions. With his usual good humor, he telegraphed from Toronto to Columbus that they needn't put themselves to any further trouble on his account. A telegram from Cincinnati gives the following description of the manner of his escape: Col. Dick Morgan (a brother of Gen. John Morgan)