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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), Chapter 9: (search)
ents paralyzed by these raids capture of Gallatin, Tenn., with many prisoners, by General Morgan apid night march after reuniting, and reached Gallatin, on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, twenrough the enemy's lines to Shelbyville, Tenn. Gallatin was several times during the war the scene ofe route via Sparta, he made his appearance at Gallatin, 26 miles north of Nashville, which had beenat once. He then moved to the tunnel between Gallatin and Franklin, captured the stockade without al months. He then destroyed a bridge between Gallatin and Nashville, and forty cars, and withdrew to Hartsville, thirteen miles east of Gallatin, where he went into camp. Pending this disaster, GMcMinnville, August 11th, in the direction of Gallatin. His command consisted of about 700 cavalry,uts. In the meantime the latter had moved to Gallatin, and on the 21st, General Johnson advanced fr rights. All communication cut off betwixt Gallatin and Nashville, a body of 300 infantry totally
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 15: (search)
lry. In the early part of the month one of the most brilliant events of the year took place in the capture of Hartsville, Tenn. The expedition was planned and led by General Morgan and was composed entirely of Kentucky troops: 1,400 cavalry under Col. Basil W. Duke; the Second and Ninth Kentucky infantry, commanded by Col. Thomas H. Hunt; Captain Cobb's battery, and two howitzers and two Ellsworth guns of the cavalry. General Morgan had learned that Federal detachments were stationed at Gallatin, Castalian Springs and Hartsville, his old stamping-ground, and he proposed to repeat some of his exploits of the past summer. Leaving Murfreesboro on the 5th, the command moved to Baird's Mills, half way to Hartsville, which was fifty miles distant from Murfreesboro. It was bitter cold and the ground covered with snow. Here they remained until 6 p. m. on the 6th, when, by a night march, they crossed the Cumberland river five miles below Hartsville by daylight, and shortly after sunrise