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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Defences of James river. (search)
required superior military skill and judgment, and a coolness and bravery, as well as fact, possessed by few, and should stamp the man who could do it as a military commander of no ordinary capacity. His subsequent exploits, some of which have been given to the public, and an account of others which we are promised, fully prove him to be this commander. Captain Morgan's squadron consists now of four companies, viz: his own, the Lexington Rifles, which is Company A; Company B, Captain Thomas W. Allen, whose brother, Jack Allen, is on General Breckinridge's staff; Company C, Captain Bowles, and Company D, Captain Churchwell; numbering in all about four hundred and fifty men. Morgan commands as the senior Captain, having declined a superior appointment, because he had magnanimously pledged himself to remain with and share the fate of his brave followers. His command wear the plain costume of private citizens, and Captain Morgan himself is without any distinguishing mark, and alwa