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

However, Morgan has been enabled to escape with seven or eight hundred men who were at the head of his column. While the Federals were gathering their prisoners he gained the ford at Belleville Island. Nearly one-half of his force had already crossed the river when the Moose came to interrupt the passage. About three hundred and fifty men, having arrived at the left bank, thus escaped the fate of their comrades. So fortunate as to avoid the Federal brigade which General Scammon had brought as far as the banks of the Ohio, they managed to reach Knoxville, and related to the Confederate armies the disaster of which they had been witnesses.

The capture of Morgan and his companions being only a matter of time, General Shackelford is chosen to pursue him with the most able-bodied men in his brigade and in Wolford's: the rest of the Union forces return to Cincinnati. The Confederate chief must follow the Ohio, so as to seek a good place to cross, but the course of the river leading him northward, every step will diminish his chances of escape. On the 19th, in the daytime, he arrives at a new fording-place called Blennerhassett, a short distance below Parkersburg; but here, again, a Federal steamer comes to prevent his crossing. From this time his progress is only a desperate run to the northward, and everywhere the militia is posted to meet him. However, he finds means to cross the Muskingum River, notwithstanding all the measures taken by the Federals to guard its course, and advances during six days into the very heart of a region loyal to the Union with a handful of exhausted men, without his adversaries having been able to overtake him. On the 25th, beyond Steubenville, an ambush is skilfully laid; but a Federal detachment falls into it before the advent of Morgan: the noise produced by the fusillade between the two friendly bodies of soldiers warns him of the danger that he must avoid. At length, on the 26th of July, he is in the vicinity of Salineville, near the Pennsylvania line. Several regiments of infantry from that State, having come by the railway, at last succeed in halting the Confederates before the town, while Colonel Bristow and the Ninth Michigan