Recollections of Morgan’s Raid

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MIDDLETON C. ROBERTSON

Yayın yılı:

2022

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Indiana University Press

On the eleventh day of July, 1863, Gen. John H. Morgan and his army passed through Graham Township, Jefferson County, in the flight through southern Indiana from Ken tucky to Ohio. Not being a trained soldier, Morgan did not rank in ability with a number of the generals in the Confed erate Army but was recognized throughout the South as an able and valorous officer. In his military operations in Ken tucky and Tennessee, he and his command constituted a de structive force with which the Union armies found it difficult to cope. At the time of the Raid, I was not at our family home which was less than a mile from the line of march of the enemy army.1 I was away temporarily visiting an uncle, Dr. H. D. Gaddy, at Weston, in Jennings County, and so did not see any of the Confederates. There were no telephones or radios in those days, but we kept fairly well advised as to what was going on outside of our community. Hearing of a movement among the citizens to assemble at Vernon and en gage the enemy in battle, my uncle joined them. I see him now through the eyes of memory as he rode away that Sun day morning in company with some of his neighbors, his rifle on his shoulder and enough bullets in his ammunition pouch, that I had helped him mould, to send the souls of scores of Morgan's men to purgatory. The day passed, but no sound of cannon came our way which led us to believe that there was no battle in progress. After hours of waiting for him, my uncle returned. He bore on his per…

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