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Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 33 5 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 30 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 28 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 20 2 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 13 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 2 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 11 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 10 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 7 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 2 Browse Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Morgan's Indiana and Ohio raid. (search)
Morgan's Indiana and Ohio raid. General Basil W. Duke. The expedition undertaken by General John H. Morgan, in the summer of 1863, and known as the Indiana and Ohio raid, serves more than any other effort of his active and adventurous career to illustrate his audacious strategy, and an account of it may be read with some interest as a contribution to the history of the late civil war. I shall endeavor, therefore, as requested, to narrate its principal incidents; and, in order that a proper understanding of its purpose and importance as a military movement may be had, I must be allowed a brief description of the relative conditions and attitude of the two contending armies in Tennessee and Kentucky at that date. Indeed, if I hope to vindicate General Morgan's reputation from the charge of senseless audacity to which this raid gave rise, I should premise by saying that in this as in all similar enterprises, he planned and conducted his operations with reference to those of the ar
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Morgan's Indiana and Ohio Railroad. (search)
sketch of the Morgan raid of 1863, by General Basil W. Duke, printed in the Weekly times of April 6th, when it closed. I think it is clear, from Duke's account of the crossing at Brandenburg, that offered the rebels very judicious resistance. Duke says: A single well-aimed shot from her would hle of Southern Indiana. And whether or not, as Duke says, the gunboat could have become mistress ofeal in this line, attributed to the militia by Duke, was the work of O'Neil and his fifty troopers.tent pursuer in all our forces. He did not, as Duke says, surround Morgan, in the usual accepted mer duty when Morgan crossed the Cumberland. General Duke says: At Pomeroy, where we approached tlimited, and, it also seems, erroneous. General Duke's error regarding the number and character nfantry and several of these cannon were in General Duke's eye. None of our regular infantry cam no value. With the exceptions here noted, General Duke's account of the raid is a very correct one[5 more...]