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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—eastern Tennessee. (search)
final success, had been in Kentucky; the troops which had not followed Morgan had remained inactive; the Federals' whole plan of operations had been changed; and by this means Bragg had escaped from a disaster which would perhaps have proved irreparable. Colonel Streight and the higher officers of his command having been, as the reader has already seen, treated like criminals by the Confederate authorities, Morgan and his men were, by way of retaliation, shut up in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio. On the 27th of November, 1863, Morgan and some of his men, after having dug a tunnel under the thick walls of their prison, escaped, despite the sharp surveillance exercised over them, traversed the entire States of Kentucky and Tennessee through the midst of the Federal lines, and, after a hundred strange adventures, finally succeeded in joining Bragg's army. In the first days of February, 1864, Streight managed, in his turn, to open, with upward of a hundred Federal officers, a pas