Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for John H. Morgan or search for John H. Morgan in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 1 document section:

Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.32 (search)
Morgan's famous raid. [from the Richmond times, July 12, 1896.] how he swept through Fifty=two towns like a cyclone. One of the most extraordinary expeditions of the war was the raid of General John H. Morgan through Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. One of his soldiers writes: Our entire command consisted of about 1,500 men, all brave and resolute, well armed and mounted, and eager for the race. General Basil Duke and Colonel Dick Morgan were in the van, Captain McFarland, of the Second KeGeneral John H. Morgan through Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. One of his soldiers writes: Our entire command consisted of about 1,500 men, all brave and resolute, well armed and mounted, and eager for the race. General Basil Duke and Colonel Dick Morgan were in the van, Captain McFarland, of the Second Kentucky cavalry, being the senior captain and acting as major. From Burksville we proceeded on through Columbia, Campbellsville and Lebanon, where the command fought from early dawn till late in the evening, putting to rout the enemy and capturing many of them, and destroying the government property. Thence to Springfield and Bardstown, whence the Yankees trailed their banners and fled at the sight of the Stars and Bars; thence through Bloomington, Garnetsville, to Brandenburg, on the Ohio ri