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The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North (search)
mped at Pilot Knob, Mo., in September last. Our pickets were shot by some mysterious agency, and report stated, in camp, that a tall, heavy man, with flowing beard, mounted on an immense black stallion, fleet as the wind, was several times detected in the act of retreating. Shot after shot was fired after him, but he seemed to bear a charmed life. We lost sight of him until just before we left Cairo, when he appeared one night suddenly and shot two of our pickets. Again he appeared at Bacon creek, Ky., and burnt the railroad bridge under M' Cook's nose, shot one of his pickets, and rode off before the army had recovered from its surprise. You remember his bold attack upon our lines on Saturday, the 8th of March in Mitchell's division, and again on Sunday morning, at daylight, upon McCook's camp, on the Franklin pike. The very same Sunday, this Morgan, disguised as a countryman, and dressed in butternut-colored clothes, obtained a pass from Gen. Mitchell, who did not know hi