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The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], The cause of Morgan 's raid into Ohio . (search)
The cause of Morgan's raid into Ohio.
--The Paroled Prisoners,--The Atlanta Confederacy publishes a letter written by Lieutenant-Colonel R. W. Alston, Morgan's Adjutant-General, to a friend, which gives us the only intelligible reason for Gen. Morgan's raid into Ohio which we have yet seen.
He says:
Burnside becoming a rth the sacrifice of all we lost, which was about fifteen hundred men and horses and two pieces of artillery.
The same letter gives the reasons for Lieutenant-Colonel Alston's being paroled, it appears that he gained his point by pertinaciously holding the Yankee Government to its promise as given by the officer who paroled h spair.
In fact I was regarded by my brother officers as having a mania on the subject, and whenever an improbable event was spoken of they would reply, Yes, when Alston gets his parole." There were a great many others situated exactly as I was; but they regarded the hope of success as so improbable that I could not prevail on the