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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)
n the stream, a force, equal to Morgan's, under General Hobson, Composed of the forces of Generals Hobson, Generals Hobson, Wolford, and Shackleford, consisting of Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky troops. These had formed a junction at Leanon on the 6th, and, by older of General Burnside, Hobson was directed to assume the general command, and pured, and, before daylight on the morning of the 9th, Hobson and his little army were on Indiana soil. At the sk to Kentucky as quickly as possible. He knew that Hobson was in his rear, and Judah on his flank, and that t amount of $415,000. When Morgan left Harrison, Hobson, who was pressing on in his track at the rate of foovernment. The people did all they could to assist Hobson in his wearisome chase, by harassing the raiders, orent points. Runkle was following him from Berlin; Hobson was within a few hours' ride, on the west; three re Judah's cavalry struck Morgan's flank, the head of Hobson's column, under General Shackleford, struck his rea
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 10: the last invasion of Missouri.--events in East Tennessee.--preparations for the advance of the Army of the Potomac. (search)
p tracks, and plundered without fear, for the troops in the path of his desolation were too few or feeble to check him. His men were divided into raiding parties, and one of these, three hundred strong, led by Colonel Giltner, actually pushed General Hobson, with twelve hundred well-armed men, into a bend of the Licking River, in Nicholas County, and captured him and his troops. When General Burbridge was told of Morgan's passage of the mountains, he started promptly in pursuit, and, by a fordge struck them an awfully shattering blow while they were breakfasting. That blow killed or wounded three hundred of them, while four hundred men were made prisoners, and a thousand horses were spoils for the victors. It also liberated some of Hobson's men. Burbridge's loss was about one hundred and fifty men. Morgan was amazed and bewildered by this staggering blow, and, with the wreck of his command, he reeled back into Southwestern Virginia, and made his way into the valley of East Tenn