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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)
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