burnt the bridges behind him, reached the Ohio at Brandenburg at an early hour on the 8th, found and captured two steamers at the landing, put his troops on board, ferried them across during that day and night, and, having placed them all safely on the Indiana shore, burnt his transports. Our forces reached the bank just in season to witness the spectacle of the burning boats, and to hear the derisive shouts of triumph that the successful enemy raised from the opposite shore.

The lower range of counties in Indiana now seemed to lie at the disposal of the rebel chief, and those who sympathized with his cause had the opportunity of learning, that even his tender mercies were cruel. He burnt the town of Salem, destroyed the railroad bridge and track, and ravaged the neighboring region without regard to friend or foe. For a time he seemed to conduct the affair with great skill. He made the authorities at Indianapolis believe that he was threatening the Capital, while he kept our forces at Louisville on the qui vive by making feints of attempting a passage at Jeffersonville. But General Burnside was by no means idle. He disposed his available forces in Kentucky either for defence or pursuit, he ordered the river to be patrolled by the gunboats in his Department, arranged a system of fortifications and defence for Louisville, employed the militia of Indiana and Ohio in conjunction with Governors Morton and Tod, aroused the people, stationed his improvised forces in the most advantageous positions for checking the career of the adventurous raider, and urged on the forces already in pursuit. Morgan found that his plans for further progress in ravaging had met with a serious interference, and, when Generals Hobson, Judah and Shackleford had reached the opposite bank on the morning of the 10th, with their forces in pursuit, the rebel chief became seriously baffled, and sought only to escape in safety. He fled through the counties of Harrison, Jefferson, Scott, Ripley and Dearborn, harassed by the militia. He more than once attempted to find a crossing place into Kentucky, but was foiled at every point by the vigilance of our naval force. Without doing much damage, he reached

the Ohio line at Harrison on the White Water river in Hamilton county, followed as closely as the condition of the roads would permit by our indefatigable cavalry.

The following dates will show his progress: On the 10th of July he was at Vernon, Ind.; on the 12th near Versailles; on the 13th one column near Aurora, and another at Harrison, and on the 14th he crossed the Miami river at Miamisville. At the latter place, our forces were but three or four hours behind him. Such dispositions were made at Hamilton and Cincinnati, as effectually to secure the safety of those two cities, and Morgan, passing to the eastward on the night of the 13th and during the 14th, endeavored to reach the Ohio by way of Batavia. Again prevented and closely pressed, Morgan's escape became simply a question of the comparative endurance of our men and his own. Day and night, through Sardinia, Winchester, Jackson, Jasper, Pikeston, Linesville and Chester, the pursuit continued without cessation. The loyal people of Ohio turned out to harass the invaders at every cross road and afforded every facility to our troops. Provisions, forage, horses were willingly furnished, or,—if any reluctance was occasionally manifested, were pressed into the service. General Judah led a column along the river roads, Generals Hobson and Shackleford in the interior. A division of small gunboats kept the river itself on Morgan's right flank, and threw shell and shot among his columns, whenever opportunity offered. With some difficulty, the gunboats were warped over the shoals and forced up the rapids. The gallant officer in command, Lieutenant Commander Le Roy Fitch, clearly understood the exigency and faithfully met its requirements.

Eastward the flight and the pursuit continued through Southern Ohio until the 19th of July, when the enemy was brought to bay near Chester by our land forces. He had previously attempted to cross the river near Buffington Island, but had been handsomely repulsed and driven back into the country in confusion by Lieutenant Commander Fitch, leaving horses, carriages, boots, shoes, small arms and the like, strewn

along the road and the river bank in his precipitate retreat. It was a smart fight and reflected great honor upon our naval forces. The retirement of the enemy only brought him face to face with his pursuers.

General Shackleford, who was in immediate contact with the enemy, promptly formed his lines and delivered battle with great energy. The wearied men took new strength from the presence of the long sought foe, and fought with remarkable gallantry and vigor. An hour passed without decisive results, when General Shackleford ordered a charge. It was bravely and resolutely made by two regiments and one battalion of Kentucky troops. The 2d and 7th Ohio cavalry, of General Hobson's command which had now closed up, opened on the enemy's rear. The 8th and 9th Michigan cavalry charged. Colonel Sanders, coming up with two pieces of artillery, threw a few shells into the midst of the staggering columns. General Judah was operating vigorously on the flanks. Surrounded on all sides, nothing was left for the discomfited foe but to surrender. A flag of truce was immediately sent in, and Colonel Dick Morgan, General Basil Duke, and other officers and men, amounting to over seven hundred, with arms, horses, equipments, and plunder became the reward of that morning's conflict.

But the chief prize, the leader of the expedition, was yet at large. The force which had been captured was only a portion. of his command. General Shackleford at once pushed on to overtake the remainder. Fifteen miles further, at Tupper's Plains, the enemy was found posted in a dense forest and well protected. An attack was impracticable for that day, and the command was engaged in hunting down and capturing small detachments of the raiders, until reënforcements should arrive. During the subsequent night, however, the enemy managed to escape and retreated down the river in the direction of Eight Mile Island, hoping there to cross. But Lieutenant Commander Fitch with his gunboats rendered such hope abortive. Morgan now turned into the interior, pursued by General Shackleford,

who followed him with unabating persistence. For fifty-seven miles did this energetic officer pursue, until at three o'clock in the afternoon of the 20th, General Shackleford, with the aid of Colonel Wolford with the 45th Ohio infantry, had driven the foe to a high bluff near the river, from which escape was difficult. An unconditional surrender was demanded, and forty minutes were allowed for consultation. During the interval, Morgan, with six hundred men, managed to slip away unperceived, and the remainder of the enemy's force surrendered. The captures on that day amounted to over twelve hundred officers and men, with their arms and equipments. General Shackleford, exasperated by the treachery of Morgan, called for volunteers who would be willing to "stay in the saddle, without eating and drinking," until Morgan was captured. A thousand and more responded; but, as only five hundred horses were found serviceable, that number of men started, on the morning of the 21st, determined to run down the coveted game.

The chase had become decidedly animating and highly interesting. For three days and three nights longer were our troops in hot pursuit, until, on the morning of the 24th, Morgan was overtaken near Washington, in Guernsey county, but succeeded, by destroying bridges, in eluding our forces and causing them considerable delay. Still General Shackleford was persevering and vigorous, and pushed persistently on through Athens, Harrison county, Springfield and Salem, Jefferson county, capturing two hundred and thirty of the enemy by the way. Major W. B. Way, with the 9th Michigan cavalry, after a forced march of a day and night, succeeded, at eight o'clock on the morning of the 26th, in bringing Morgan to an engagement about a mile and a half from Salinesville. Fighting continued for an hour or more, and resulted in scattering the enemy in all directions. The enemy lost seventy-five killed and wounded, two hundred prisoners, and one hundred and fifty horses, with equipments and

arms. Finally, General Shackleford had the extreme satisfaction, on the morning of the 27th, of overtaking Morgan and the remnant of his command, about four hundred in number, near New Lisbon, in Columbiana county, and compelled them to an immediate surrender. The rebel partizan, with characteristic craft, pretended to have surrendered himself to a militia officer who had paroled him. But as, in the course of the interview, he had expressed considerable contempt for the militia of Ohio which had endeavored to check his career, and deemed them of no consequence, General Shackleford rightly judged his story to be a fabrication. The prisoner, therefore, and the officers who accompanied him, were immediately carried to Cincinnati and delivered over to General Burnside. The capture of the guerilla chief was immediately reported to the authorities at Washington. General Halleck at once ordered that Morgan and his officers be placed in close confinement in the penitentiaries of the State of Ohio. The order was obeyed, and the captured men were accordingly distributed among the prisons and confined under the usual regulations. Morgan, however, and a few of his officers succeeded, at a subsequent period, in escaping, and, assisted by disloyal persons within our lines, finally rejoined his friends. But the signal failure of his raid had not added to his reputation among his fellow officers. He seems afterwards to have fallen into some disgrace, and did not again become in any way promi

nent.

The admirable conduct of Generals Hobson, Judah and Shackleford and the pursuing party was beyond all praise. The Governors of Indiana and Ohio were very efficient in their dispositions of the militia of the two States. The committees of safety in the different counties were exceedingly active, and rendered very efficient service. The loyal people of Ohio turned out, and, by felling trees across the roads, organizing in squads to harass the fugitives, and adopting such other measures as the emergency suggested, gave valuable assistance