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Title: Raiding with Morgan

Author: Byron A. Dunn

Release Date: August 24, 2009 [Ebook #29786]

Language: English

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Raiding with Morgan

[Illustration: AS HE SAT ON HIS HORSE AND LOOKED OUT UPON THE RIVER.]

The Young Kentuckians Series

Raiding with Morgan

BY
Byron A. Dunn

Author of "General Nelson's Scout," "On General Thomas's Staff,"
"Battling for Atlanta," "From Atlanta to the Sea"

Chicago
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1903

COPYRIGHT
BY A. C. MCCLURG & CO
A. D. 1903

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PUBLISHED SEPT. 30, 1903

PREFACE.

General John H. Morgan was one of the most picturesque figures in the
Civil War, an officer without a peer in his chosen line. During the two
years of his brilliant career he captured and paroled at least ten
thousand Federal soldiers, and kept three times that number in the rear of
the Federal army guarding communications. When we consider the millions of
dollars' worth of property he destroyed, and how he paralyzed the
movements of Buell, we do not wonder that he was considered the scourge of
the Army of the Cumberland.

General Morgan was a true Kentucky gentleman, and possessed one of the
kindest of hearts. The thousands of persons captured by him almost
invariably speak of the good treatment accorded them. The following
incident reveals more clearly than words his generous spirit. In reporting
a scout, he says:

"Stopped at a house where there was a sick Lincoln soldier, who died that
night. No men being in the neighborhood, his wife having no person to make
a coffin or bury him, I detailed some men, who made a coffin."

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