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Portland (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 54
s they will hardly believe in greater cowardice than that displayed by the noble corps of patriots referred to. We struck out over the knobs that night, in a northeasterly direction, in order to reach the old Pomeroy stage road in the morning at Portland, on the Sciota Valley Railroad, by the time Morgan should cross the road at Jackson, a few miles further north. We reached Portland at sunrise. Smoke was rising over Jackson, and we were not long in ascertaining that it proceeded from the depoPortland at sunrise. Smoke was rising over Jackson, and we were not long in ascertaining that it proceeded from the depot, which some foolish vandals of Morgan's had fired, thus revealing his whereabouts to his pursuers more accurately than they could otherwise have ascertained it. And now began, on the morning of July 17th, the most exciting part of this exciting expedition. The rebels knew we were neck and neck with them. They knew Hobson was pursuing them in the rear with the eagerness of a bloodhound. They knew their only chance of escape lay in reaching the fords some time in advance of both pursuers.
Canadian (United States) (search for this): chapter 54
Hobson was pursuing them in the rear with the eagerness of a bloodhound. They knew their only chance of escape lay in reaching the fords some time in advance of both pursuers. They had the advantage of distance on Judah-the road they traveled being several miles shorter than his, which followed the bends of the river. From the morning of the 17th, on to the final encounter, we were constantly within reach of and feeling Morgan's right flank and rear. John O'Neil, since of Fenian and Canadian border fame, then a lieutenant in the Fifth Indiana Cavalry, was intrusted with the task of harassing the raiders, and keeping the Federal commander informed of all the enemy's movements. O'Neil was an ideal Irish dragoon, impetuous, brave, prudent. He did some as effective scouting and skirmishing with his command of fifty picked men along the bluffs of the Ohio on the two last days of the great raid, as any officer did during the war. As the raiders advanced they were, beside being hara
Portsmouth, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 54
14th. We were fitted out with a fleet of steamers, and, leisurely waiting until Morgan passed the city, we started up the river, under orders to keep as near abreast of the enemy as practicable, and not to land until we were certain of reaching Buffington ford about the same time the raiders did. We steamed slowly up the Ohio, sending boats ashore from the headquarters' steamer every few hours to get reports of scouts and citizens on the movements and whereabouts of Morgan. We landed at Portsmouth on the evening of the 16th, and had some trouble in convincing the loyal people of that town that they ought, in consideration of liberal compensation in cash, to furnish us a sufficient train to carry our extra baggage and ammunition. A little coaxing, emphasized in special cases by resolute-looking fellows with drawn sabres, was successful. At nightfall I drove up in front of the shabby old hotel, for the general's inspection, a dozen wagons. With vigilant guarding, we kept them a co
Pomeroy (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 54
t, in a northeasterly direction, in order to reach the old Pomeroy stage road in the morning at Portland, on the Sciota Vallere so stubborn and effective as on the last day, from near Pomeroy to their last encampment on the Ohio, between Buffington a were killed. We learned, while resting and feeding at Pomeroy, Saturday evening, that late rains in the mountains of Pen Morgan crossed the Cumberland. General Duke says: At Pomeroy, where we approached the river again, a large force of regd correctly, conjectured that the troops which had been at Pomeroy were a portion of the infantry which had been sent from Kefrom Cincinnati to Pomeroy. Judah's command arrived at Pomeroy about the middle of the afternoon of that day. There was nn sent by river from Cincinnati to intercept him, first at Pomeroy, and, failing there, higher up; but General Morgan's histo error regarding the number and character of our forces at Pomeroy on the 18th, is duplicated in some particulars, and thrown
Broadway (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 54
ng fellow, and, withal, not bad-looking, and of both these facts he seemed to have full knowledge. Something in his bearing told us he intended to give us the slip, and all watched him intently. When the boat neared Cincinnati, a patrol was sent below with orders to clear the main deck of prisoners-sending them above. This done, guards were stationed on the stairs, with orders not to allow any one to pass up or down except by permission of the officer of the day. We landed at the foot of Broadway, and there was a great crowd on the wharf. My handsome captain had, somehow, eluded the guard sent to clear the main deck. He took advantage of the commotion among the mob on shore to step down the stage-plank while some of our officers were mounting their horses. He said to the officer in charge of the guard, which was standing with ranks open to receive the prisoners, that he was an officer of the boat. Naturally, he was believed. Slipping through the rank on his right, he mingled wi
Lebanon Junction (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 54
s brutal order was brutally executed. It is due Morgan's memory to say that the order was given under peculiar excitement, and that, though I served two years with troops which came in contact with him a score of times, the one just related is the only instance of Morgan's abuse of prisoners which ever came to my ears in such form as to justify belief in its truthfulness. On the evening of the 6th, the raiders crossed the Louisville and Nashville Railway, near Shepherdsville, north of Lebanon Junction. They stopped a passenger train, went through the passengers and mails in free-and-easy style, and then having passed the last fortified post on their route northward, pushed for the Ohio. The force sent in advance to seize boats with which to cross into Indiana, secured two large steamers on the morning of the 8th, and when Morgan reached Brandenburg at noon these transports awaited him. Meantime, the whole of Burnside's army had been recalled from its line in the south of Kentuc
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 54
and had become well used to that system. The scattered troops in Kentucky were being placed on the same basis by Burnside, who commanded the it was announced in general orders that the army of occupation in Kentucky had been consolidated, for active service, into the Twenty-third Aof Burnside's army had been recalled from its line in the south of Kentucky, and had been pushed rapidly toward the northern border. Every avgan's command at Buffington, were those which had pursued him from Kentucky. As there had been no company reports possible from the 3d of Juleing that army's coffin. Had Morgan been readily beaten back from Kentucky in a crippled condition, Burnside would have met Rosecrans at Chatommanders. He says: Burnside was --in June, 1863-concentrating in Kentucky a force for the invasion of Tennessee, variously estimated at fromat Pomeroy were a portion of the infantry which had been sent from Kentucky to intercept us, and that they had been brought by the river from
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 54
, Judah marched his force, with haste, back to Elizabethtown, where men and horses were loaded on trains and carried to Louisville. There the cars were exchanged for steamboats, and our column was all at the Cincinnati wharf on the morning of the 14epaired, and, secure in his disguise, drank and chatted with our officers until evening, when he took the mail boat for Louisville. At Louisville he had a good time, after which he left, mounted on a fresh horse; for Bragg's army. Whether he ever rLouisville he had a good time, after which he left, mounted on a fresh horse; for Bragg's army. Whether he ever reached his destination or not I do not know. I gather all the facts related in this incident, after he left the boat, from a letter the captain had printed in the Louisville papers on the eve of leaving on his southward journey. He wound up with a reatment; regretted that he had to leave us in unceremonious style; was sorry we could not have made the grand round of Louisville with him; but, really, his engagements called him South, and we must excuse him-we must, indeed. We read his good-natu
Hartford (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 54
linois Battery and a section of three-inch Rodmans, manned by troopers of the Fifth Indiana, set out on an interior line of the arc on which Morgan moved. And though his force was delayed almost an entire day in effecting a crossing of Green river, which was swollen by late rains, it reached Elizabethtown, on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, on the evening of the 7th--the day before Morgan got to Brandenburg. From Elizabethtown Judah marched west to Litchfield, a village on the old Hartford road, the only practicable route of escape for raiders if they failed to make a crossing at Brandenburg. There is plenty of internal and external evidence to show that Burnside intended that Morgan should cross the river and run through Southern Indiana and Southern Ohio. The Federal general's plan had been all thrown away by the necessity to pursue the raiders, and protect his supplies and communications; and he very naturally might conclude that the best compensation for this sacrifi
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 54
e opportunities that occur in all great wars, which, if seized in a strong hand and wielded with vigor, can be so improved as to end the strife in one heavy, short, and sharp campaign. A competent military critic, looking at the situation from to-day, would probably conclude that, had these three armies been controlled by one master of right qualities, he would have brought the campaign to a glorious end by autumn, and brushed the Confederacy out of Tennessee, North Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, if indeed he had not so weakened it that the whole structure would have tumbled into ruin before the dawn of 1864. But we had no such man at the head of Southwestern military affairs. They were in the hands of three commanders, entirely independent of each other, and probably jealous of each other. These chiefs had no very high opinion of General Halleck, the nominal commander-in-chief at army headquarters, and this last sentiment of the generals was indulged in by all ranks in their
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