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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Cavalry operations in the West under Rosecrans and Sherman . (search)
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 ThoDuke 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 Kentuck
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 18.115 (search)
Last days of the Confederacy.
condensed from the Southern bivouac, for August, 1886.--editors. by Basil W. Duke, Brigadier-General, C. S. A.
When General Lee began his retreat from Richmond and Petersburg Brigadier-General John Echols was in command of the Department of South-western Virginia.
See p. 422. General Echols succeeded General Early in command of the department, March 30th, 1865.--editors. Under him were General Wharton's division and the brigades of Colonels Trigg and Pr y out of the country, and then obtain such terms as had been given General Johnston's army, or, failing in that, make the best of our way to the trans-Mississippi.
The five brigade commanders [S. W. Ferguson, George G. Dibrell, J. C. Vaughn, Basil W. Duke, and W. C. P. Breckinridge] each received an order notifying him to attend at the private residence in Abbeville, where Mr. Davis had made his headquarters, about 4 o'clock of that afternoon.
We were shown into a room where we found Mr. Davi