The Daily Dispatch: April 1, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Captain Morgan.

--We have published several accounts of the doings of that gallant partizan leader, Captain John H Morgan, of Kentucky, including his capture of a telegraph operator at Gallatin, Tennessee, and his sending a number of dispatches to Louisville, among them one to Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, politely offering to act as his escort on his proposed visit to Nashville. After performing this feat, Captain Morgan, with his men awaited the arrival of the train form Bowling Green, and the Atlanta Confederacy tells what enemy:

In due time the train came thundering in Captain Morgan at once seized it, and taking five Federal officers who were passengers, and the engineer of the train, prisons, he burned to cinders all of the cars, with their contents, and then filling the locomotive with turpentine, shut down all the valves and started it towards Nashville. Before it had run eight hundred yards the accumulation of steam caused it to explode, shivering it into a thousand atone. Captain Morgan than started southward with his prisoners, and made his way safely to the Confederate comp.

The bridge over Barren river, beyond Prowling Green. has not yet been rebuilt, and the Federal had only one locomotive and one train of cars with which to do all their business between Bowling Green and Nashville. The serious damage inflicted upon the Federal by this dashing exploit may be appreciated from this fact.