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

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[20] regiment overtake the fugitives and charge them. Most of them surrender. Their force is dispersed. Morgan, with a few men, reaches Wellsville, and thence dashes suddenly to the northward in the direction of New Lisbon. General Shackelford pursues him vigorously, does not give him time to take his bearings, and, having caught up with him about two o'clock in the afternoon, runs him to the top of a steep knoll which offers no means of escape for the fugitives.

Morgan surrenders with his few companions. He was only thirty-seven miles from the city of Pittsburg. During the twenty-four days which had elapsed since the crossing of the Cumberland River he had travelled over more than six hundred and twenty-five miles. His troopers had not all been able to get fresh horses, for it was ascertained that they took away, altogether, only two hundred and ninety horses. They had not interrupted the traffic on a single railway nor destroyed a single depot. Far from enlisting under their banner any partisan, they had succeeded in exasperating the most lukewarm defenders of the Union and had for ever ruined the prospects of the peace faction. After a fantastic run, the fine division which under Morgan believed itself to be invincible had wholly disappeared. It was a cruel loss to the Confederacy; but, however, as we have already intimated the fact, this loss was more than offset by the result obtained at the price of such a sacrifice. Burnside, who had very skilfully directed the pursuit and made sure the 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