Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4.
Henry Coppee , LL.D., Ed.

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[12] come hastily from Central Kentucky was despatched in the direction of Cincinnati, in order to stop the way if Morgan should threaten that commercial city. But instead of continuing their march northward, the Confederates had suddenly turned to the west and reached the left bank of the Ohio, down which they were moving in the direction of Brandenburg. This move baffled the calculations of the Federals. Hobson, being obliged to allow his men to rest, could not resume his march before the 8th in the morning; Judah, instead of following the chord of the arc which Morgan had just described, went to wait for him at Litchfield.

The Confederate vanguard, having reached Brandenburg in the evening of the 7th, had the good fortune to capture two large steamboats, which would enable all the cavalry quickly to cross the river. On Morgan's arrival on the 8th, in the morning, all was ready to transport the men and horses to the soil of Indiana. From the Brandenburg side of the Ohio it is easy to effect a landing on the opposite shore; the right bank of the river has recently been reconnoitred by that band of partisans of whom only a few have succeeded in regaining the Kentucky shore. A deep and rapid sheet of water, two-thirds of a mile wide, separates the Confederate troops from the free States. Morgan's soldiers are burning with impatience to make the inhabitants of these States feel at last the whole weight of the war, while the leaders, on the contrary, wish to go among these Northerners in order to get accomplices. But to obtain their co-operation the Confederates must present themselves as liberators, adding the prestige of disinterestedness to the influence of courage and boldness. Unfortunately for their cause, these Southern horsemen are incapable of comprehending and enacting such a part. In Kentucky—which they consider, however, as a friendly country—their progress has been marked by rapine and incendiarism, and such is their insubordination that officers, having sought to repress it, have been murdered by these troopers under Morgan's own eyes. What will they not do when once within the rich States of Indiana and Ohio? The partisans of peace at any price will be disgraced on the day when the people shall be able to reproach them with having called in such friends. It may-be inferred that Burnside foresaw the political advantage which might be derived from this