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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 3: political affairs.--Riots in New York.--Morgan's raid North of the Ohio. (search)
of Buckner, and Morgan determined to push on into Indiana and Ohio, in an independent movement. At Brandenburg, Morgan captured two steamers The McCombs was first seized, and, while lying in the stream, gave a signal of distress, when the fine steamer, Alice Dean, appeared. The latter ran alongside the McCombs, when she was seized, and pressed into Morgan's service. When no longer needed she was burnt, with property valued at $60,000. The McCombs was not destroyed. (McCombs and Alice, Dean), and, on the 8th, July. proceeded to cross the river upon them, in spite of the opposition of some Indiana militia, and two gunboats that were patroling the Ohio. When his rear-guard was ascending the Indiana shore, and one of the steamers was a blazing ruin in the stream, a force, equal to Morgan's, under General Hobson, Composed of the forces of Generals Hobson, Wolford, and Shackleford, consisting of Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky troops. These had formed a junction at Lebanon on the
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 16: career of the Anglo-Confederate pirates.--closing of the Port of Mobile — political affairs. (search)
usand negroes; but for every negro he had thus stolen, he had stolen ten thousand spoons. It had been said that, if the South would lay down their arms, they would be received back into the Union. The South could not honorably lay down their arms, for she was fighting for her honor. Two millions of men had been sent down to the slaughter-pens of the South, and the army of Lincoln could not again be filled, either by enlistments nor conscription. The other clergyman alluded to, named Henry Clay Dean, exclaimed:--Such a failure has never been known. Such destruction of human life had never been seen since the destruction of Sennacherib by the breath of the Almighty. And still the monster usurper wants more men for his slaughter-pens. . . . Èver since the usurper, traitor, and tyrant had occupied the Presidential chair, the republican party had shouted War to the knife, and the knife to the hilt! Blood has flowed in torrents, and yet the thirst of the old monster was not quenched.