JOHN H. MORGAN,
Commanding Brigade.

The feelings of the above gentlemen as they received these telegrams can
better be imagined than described. The one to General Boyle must have cut
him to the quick as he read it. To know how completely Morgan had
outwitted him was like gall and wormwood to him.

From Somerset Morgan halted his command at Livingston, Tennessee, to take
a much-needed rest. Never did men need it more. They had accomplished one
of the most astonishing feats in the annals of American warfare. No wonder
the name of Morgan struck terror to the hearts of the Federals. Morgan in
his report of his raid sums it up as follows:

"I left Knoxville on the 4th day of this month with about nine hundred
men, and returned to Livingston on the 28th instant with nearly twelve
hundred, having been absent just twenty-four days, during which time I
travelled over one thousand miles, captured seventeen towns, destroyed all
the government property and arms in them, dispersed about fifteen hundred
Home Guards, and paroled nearly twelve hundred regular troops. I lost in
killed, wounded, and missing of the number I carried into Kentucky, about
ninety."

CHAPTER VIII.

THE CAPTURE OF GALLATIN.

Morgan's command had not been encamped at Livingston more than two or
three days when, to every one's astonishment, a couple of soldiers
belonging to Captain Mathews's company came riding into camp, one on Fred
Shackelford's famous horse, Prince, and the other on a well-known horse of
Colonel Shackelford's, called Blenheim.

Calhoun, hearing the cheering and laughter which greeted the soldiers as
they galloped in waving their hats and shouting, ran out of his quarters
to see what was occasioning the excitement. He could hardly believe his
eyes when he saw the well-known horse of Fred. Then his heart gave a great
jump, for the thought came to him that his cousin had been waylaid and
killed. But if so, how did the soldiers come to have Blenheim too? To his
relief he soon learned the truth of the story, how from Crab Orchard
Captain Mathews had sent back two of his company to capture Prince, and
they had returned not only with Prince, but with Blenheim. Mathews was in
high spirits as he appropriated Prince. Jumping on his back he galloped
him through camp, showing off his fine