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The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], The cause of Morgan's raid into Ohio. (search)
io. --The Paroled Prisoners,--The Atlanta Confederacy publishes a letter written by Lieutenant-Colonel R. W. Alston, Morgan's Adjutant-General, to a friend, which gives us the only intelligible reason for Gen. Morgan's raid into Ohio which we have yet seen. He says: Burnside becoming alarmed for fear of a formidable invasion of Kentucky under Buckner — for we had reported ourselves as his advance guard — put his whole force on our track, and moved all of his supplies back to Camp Dick Robinson. It therefore was just as safe for as to go forward as return, and now our principal object was to keep as many troops employed and for so long a time as possible, in order to give General Bragg time to make good his retreat to Chattanooga. The strategy succeeded, and, instead of Burnside reaching Knoxville by the 9th of July, he did not get there until about the 9th of September.--The object of our expedition, therefore, was partially accomplished, and it was worth the sacrifice of