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1 1 THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. CU FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1938 "Morgan the Raider" Rides Again Through Ohio's Peaceful Valleys Seventy-five Years Have Passed Since the Daring Confederate Cavalryman Led His Troopers in a Spectacular Invasion of Northern Soil, But the Memory of His "Terrible Men" Is Still Fresh in the Minds of Many an Old-Timer in the Buckeye State. © Western Newspaper Union. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON T HE little old white- haired lady smiled rem iniscently as she re peated the question. “Do I remember John Morgan’s raid through here in the summer of ’63? As well as though it were only yesterday! “You see, I was only nine years old then and we old folks always remember best the things that happened when we were children. Fa ther and my two brothers were away when the news came that Morgan and his men were only a few miles outside our town. They said he was taking every horse he could lay his hands on and I remember how Mother’s eyes flashed as she said, ‘Well, he’s not going to get ours!’ So I helped her lead Brown Bess and Tony—both of them were fine saddle horses — into our parlor. Then we pulled down the shades and locked the door and waited . . . “But the raiders didn’t tarry in our town long. You see, the Yankee cavalrymen were hot on their heels and by that time they were trying to find a safe cross ing over the river and get back into Kentucky . . . “No, I never took much stock in that talk about Morgan’s ‘terrible men’—I reckon it was that poem, ‘Kentucky Belle,’ we used to re cite at school that had the most to do with us people up North thinking they were such rascals. Of course, they did destroy a lot of property and carry off all sorts of things, but I never heard of their mistreating any women or children. “In fact, when I think of John Morgan I always like to remem ber that story of how he asked little Jimmy Crisman to act as a guide for him and the boy said he GEN. JOHN HUNT MORGAN, C. S. A. ingum river, a stanch abolition ist, who had been loudest in his boasts of what he would do “if that d—d rascal Morgan showed his face here.” He was one of the first drafted by Morgan to help ferry his troops across the river. Back and forth he rowed for hours under the hot July sun while the sweat streamed down his face, which was all the red der because of the jibes of the hated “Reds.” Or they may recall the story of the plucky farm woman who rode alongside the raiders and gave them “a piece of her mind” until one of them gently lifted her from her saddle and rode away leading her horse. She couldn’t have been more indignant them the Morgan’s raiders on the march. (From a contemporary drawing in Harper’s Weekly.) ■f would but refused to go alone. So Morgan allowed him to take his aunt along and later the boy and his aunt were sent back to their home accompanied by an escort to see that they got there safe. I reckon they weren’t so bad if they could do that sort of thing . . .” Such are the tales that are still told by old-timers in Indiana and Ohio who were living 75 years ago or whp heard from the lips of their parents stories of those exciting days when Gen. John H. Morgan, beau sabreur of the Confederacy, led his daring invasion of north ern soil and gave the people of those two states a bad case of the jitters. Not all of these people regard him as the gallant, roman tic figure that his admirers depict, for there are still some who re call how a favorite horse vanished up the road in a cloud of dust, never to return. To such folk, John Morgan is still a “d—d horsethief.” But even they can laugh as they recall some of the incidents of that raid. Valiant Bridge Burners. There was the case of the val iant home guards who assembled in one Ohio town to “deal the death blow to Morgan.” But when half a dozen of his scouts came clattering down the pike, some of these home guards, who had been detailed to defend a bridge, im mediately set fire to it and burned it down although there was scarcely a foot of water in the river! There was the Ohio editor who set out to find Morgan, interview him and get a tremendous “scoop.” Instead, Morgan found him, took his horse away from him and the angry journalist had to walk 12 weary miles back home. Then there was the gruff old j merchant, in a town on the Musk- farmer, sitting atop a load of hay, who met Morgan’s men as they trotted along the turnpike. They halted his team, stripped the har ness from his horses in a twin kling and left him sitting there on his load of hay speechless with astonishment. The Trooper’s Joke. And what a chuckle always ac companies the telling of the story of a timid citizen who sought ref uge in his pig pen. A gray-coated cavalryman spied him crouched down behind the rails. “Hi there, Yank!” he sang out merrily. “Are you all of the same litter?” A hundred such yams they still tell in farmhouses and villages in southern Indiana and Ohio about the man who led the Federals, both Union army forces and mili tia, such a merry chase for 29 days through four states. According to evidence present ed in Howard Swiggett’s biogra phy of Morgan, “The Rebel Raid er” (published by Bobbs Merrill in 1934), he made this raid under direct orders from President Jef- 'ferson Davis as a part of the Cop perhead conspiracy in the Old Northwest. It was timed to cor respond with Lee’s advance into Pennsylvania and if, as Davis hoped, southern sympathizers ral lied to the Stars and Bars as Lee crossed the Mason and Dixon line and Morgan crossed the Ohio, the North’s support of Lincoln’s pros ecution of the war would collapse and there would be a demand for peace whieh the northern Presi dent dare not disregard. After a number of skirmishes with Union troops stationed as garrisons of Kentucky towns along the line of march, Morgan reached the Ohio at Bragvens- burg July 7, captured two steam boats, drove off 300 Federal mi litia and two Federal gunboats. and then crossed the river to In diana. He was now in the heart of enemy country, his force of 1,500 pursued by thousands of Federals from the Kentucky camps, and facing hostile militia, populace and soldiery, wherever he might turn. Descending on Corydon, he found 4,000 militia drawn up to bar his way. He dis persed them and moved on with out halting through Salisbury and Palmyra to Salem. Threatened Cincinnati. From Salem he proceeded on up the Ohio, destroying and burning as he went, in an effort to cripple the transportation system and de prive the Federals of their stores. At Versailles he encountered a strong force of enemy troops sent to capture him but eluded them and continued on his way. -After threatening Cincinnati, he skirted the city and reached Camp Shady. There he destroyed a large num ber of Federal army wagons, much forage and other supplies. Continuing east, laying waste to rail lines, he finished his dash through Ohio at Pomeroy. By this time it had become apparent to Morgan that Davis had been de ceived as to the power of the Cop perheads in the North for they had not rallied to his flag as he had hoped. Instead, as he had pushed on through Ohio, he found the populace celebrating the victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg and most certainly not in a recep tive mood toward him and his raiders. By this time it is estimated that fully 25,000 Federal troops were in motion to surround Morgan and his troopers. Even then hejmight have made his escape into West Virginia but for an unexpected rise in the Ohio that delayed the command and prevented it from crossing the river immediately. While they were compelled to wait, Federal troops and gun boats came up. The raiders pushed further up the river to an other ford. Here many crossed before the pursuers caught up, and made their escape. Hemmed in by Federals, the remainder of the command split up in small groups—some escaping, some be ing captured. General Morgan and a large number of his men escaped, doubled back on the trail and headed toward Athens and Zanesville. Captured by Kentuckian. But the game was almost up. And ironically enough it “took a Kentuckian to catch a Kentuck ian.” For when Morgan was finally surrounded and forced to surrender on July 26, 1863, near Lisbon in Columbiana county, Ohio, the man to whom he sur rendered was Maj. George W. Rue of the Ninth Kentucky cav alry of the Union army, a native of Lexington, an old acquaintance of Morgan’s before the war and an old ."Hversary of his during the first two years of the war. After his surrender, Morgan was sent to Columbus where he was imprisoned in the Ohio peni tentiary. Four months later, how ever, he and six of his men man aged to escape and finally reached the Confederate lines in safety. After taking part in some minor engagements in West Virginia and Kentucky, he went to Tennes see. There his stormy career ended on September 3,1864, when he was killed by Union troopers in the garden of the Williams home in Grdeneville, Tenn. The poem “Kentucky Belle,” j which was a favorite “recitation” | a generation ago and which did i so much to establish the tradition of “Morgan’s terrible men,” was 1 written by Constance Fenimore Woolson, a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, the novelist. Its title is the name of the saddle | mare who was the prized posses- sion of the woman who tells the ; story—a Tennessee girl who had I married a German farmer and came north to live in Ohio. In the “stimmer of ’63” I was at work that morning, someone came riding like mad. Over the bridge and up the road—Farm er Roufa little lad. Bareback he rode; he had no hat; he hardly stopped to say. “Morgan's men are coming, Frau; they're galloping on this way. “I'm sent to warn the neighbors, he isn't a mile behind; He sweeps up aU the horses—all the horses that he can find. , Morgan, Morgan, the Raider, and Mor gan's terrible men. WlJ» bowie knife and pistols, are gal loping up the glen.’’ The lad rode down the valley, and I stood still at the door; The baby laughed and pratUed. playing with spools on the floor. Kentucky was out in the pasture. Con rad, my man, was gone. Nearer, nearer, Morgan’s men were gal loping, galloping onl Suddenly I picked up baby and ran to the pasture bar; “Kentuck!” I call: “Kentuck!" she knew me ever so far. I led her down to the gully that turns off there to the right; I tied her to the bushes; her head was just out of sight. As 1 ran back to the loghouse. at once there came a sound— The ring of hoofs, galloping hoofs, trem bling over the ground; Coming into the turnpike, out from the White Woman glen— Morgan, Morgan, the Raider, and Mor gan's terrible men. As near they drew and nearer, my heart beat fast in alarm; But still I stood in the doorway, with baby on my arm. They came; they passed; with spur and whip in haste they sped along— Morgan, Morgan, the Raider, and the band six hundred strong. Weary they looked and jaded, riding through night and day. Pushing on east to the river, many long miles away. To the .border strip where Virginia runs up into the west. And ford the Upper Ohio, before they could stop to rest. On like the wind they hurried and Mor gan rode in advance; Bright were his eyes, like live coals, as he gave me a sideways glance; And as I was just breathing freely, after my choking pain. When the last one of the troopers sud denly drew his rein. But he was only a lad, worn out by the hard campaigning under Morgan, and , I told the laddia that X, too, was from the South, Water came to his dim eyes and quivers round the mouth. “Do you know the Blue Grass Coun try?” he wistfully began to say. Then swayed like a willow sapling, and fainted dead away. Monument near Lisbon, Ohio, marking the site of Morgan’s sur* render. I got him Into the loghouse and worked and brought him to; I ted and coaxed him, as I thought his mother’d do; And when the lad got better and the noise In his head was gone, Morgan’s men were miles away, gallop ing, galloping on. And rich Ohio sat startled through all those summer days. For strange, wild men were galloping over her broad highways; Now here, nuw there, now seen, now gone, now north, now east, now west. Through river, valley and comland farms sweeping away her best. A bold ride and a long ridel But they were taken at last; They almost reached the river by riding hard and fast; But the boys In blue were upon them ere ever they gained the ford. And Morgan, Morgan the Raider, laid down his terrible sword. • She kept the boy until it was dark, then went down to the gully and led out “Kentucky Balle.” I kissed the star on her forehead—my pretty, gentle lass— But I knew that she'd be happy, back In the old blue grass. A suit of clothes of Conrad’s with all the money I had. And Kentuck, pretty Kentuck, I gave to the worn-out lad. I guided him to the southward as well as I knew how; The boy rode off with many thanks and many a backward bow; And then the glow it faded and my heart began to swell! As down the glen away she went, my lost Kentucky Belle. When Conrad came In the evening the moon was shining high; Baby and I were both crying—I couldn’t tell him why— But a battered suit of clothing was hang ing on the wall. And a thin old horse with drooping head stood In Kentucky's stall. Well, he was kind and never once said a hard word to me; He kpew I couldn’t help It-tt was all for Tennessee. But after the war was over—just think what came to pass— A letter, sir, and the two were safe, back In the old blue grass. The lad had got across the border, rid ing Kentucky Belle, And Kentuck, she was thriving and fat and hearty and well. ■a eared for her and kept her, nor touched her with whip or spur. Ahl we've had many horses, but never s horse like herl e e a e a IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HA Bean HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for July 31 SAMSON: STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS LESSON TEXT—Judges 14:9, 6; 15:11-14; 16:15-21. GOLDEN TEXT—Be strong In the Lord, and in the power of his might.—Ephesians 6:10. PRIMARY TOPIC—A Man Who Waited His Strength. JUNIOR TOPIC—How Strong Was Sam son? INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Who Is Strong? YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Physical Strength and Moral Weakness. There is no more tragic individual among the sons of men than the one who entered upon life with every promise of success, who has lived for a time in favor with God and with man, and then because of moral failure is set aside by God, shunned by man, and ends life as a disappointment and a failure. “And yet such disastrous climaxes of what should have been great and victorious careers lie all about us, and nowhere with such frequency and inexcusableness as among those whom God has called to preach, evangelize, and teach His Word. The saddest tragedy in all the world is a man who once knew the power of the Holy Spirit and who now walks the streets of some great city or is buried in the cottage of an unknown countryside, without power, without work, without joy, without the lead ing of the Lord. He knows a weari ness that labor never gives, for he wakens every morning more tired and weary than when he went to sleep the night before” (Wilbur M. Smith). The life story of Samson brings us the picture of God’s patient and gracious dealing with such a failure, reveals the inexorable law of cause and effect in the moral realm as well as the certainty that the wages of sin not repented of and forsaken is death. I. Physical Strength and Favor With God (15:5, 6). Samson had the distinction (given to only one other Old Testament character) of having his birth an nounced beforehand. He was to be a Nazarite and was to “begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistine”—a commission which sin kept him from ever finishing. God gave him the marvelous herit age of a strong and healthy body as well as His own blessing upon him for carrying out the Lord’s work. The fact that he is named among the heroes of faith in He brews indicates that he did have faith in God. Yet his life was a failure. Samson would have been a great favorite ih this athletic age. Let those who worship the body and glorify physical prowess take note that such strength is not sufficient to guarantee success in life, and may indeed be a source of tempta tion which may lead to spiritual and moral downfall. Those who live for the flesh “shall of the flesh reap corruption” (Gal. 6:8). n. Moral Weakness and Spiritual Decay (15:11-14). The portion of the lesson selected for our consideration from Judges 15 gives only ap act of prowess on the part of Samson, but the reader will recognize it as one of the many deeds of Samson done as an ex pression of his uncontrolled sensual nature. Read the entire chapter and it will be evident that here is a man who, while occasionally re sponding to God’s leading, is on the downward path of moral and spir itual decadence. Scripture is absolutely honest in relating the facts as they are—and here it is not at all an attractive pic ture. It never is, although the world tries to make it appear to be. A learned audience of university people laughed with evident appre ciation at the statement of a pro fessor that “vice is always more interesting than virtue,” little real izing that they thus bore testimony to their own attitude toward sin. If the liquor advertisements were honest enough to picture the agony of a drunkard dying of delirium tremens they would present the real truth, but they would sell no “booze.” ‘HI. Failure, Darkness, and Death (16:15-21). Delilah finally betrayed the foolish Samson who apparently had become so sure of himself that he dared to venture anything. The man who was to be strong for God is now; in prisqn, shorn of his strength, blinded by his enemies, and finally he kills himself even as he slays his enemies (16:23-31). Thus he threw away the life that had become to him but a burden and a disgrace. “Thus he who began never com pleted his work. The column was broken in the middle. The story ends with a comma and a dash, blis tered over by a tear. For the light is turned into darkness, and bow great is the darkness” (J. M. Lang). Now Power Can Defeat God Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wick ed, when it cometh. For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.— Prov. 3:25,26. WHA T TO EA T and WHY * | * -ffou.iton (joudlii 'Piieuiitti Cheese-Prince of Proteins Noted Food Authority Tells Why You Should Eat More of the Food That Is So Rich in Protective Elements. By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS f « East 35th St., N.w York City. F OR many years, men*with an inventive turn of mind have’ dreamed of creating a product that would concentrate all the important food elements in a small tablet or capsule. They have been inspired by a desire to simplify meal prep- 1 aration without sacrificing nutritive values. No one has ever succeeded^ 1 in making a synthetic food that would both satisfy hun ger and properly nourish the body. But all the while, the re searchers have overlooked the magnificent possibilities of cheese, of the most concentrated. one nourishing, satisfying and versa tile of foods. —★— Cheese—The Body Builder Cheese is the most concentrated source of protein known. More over, the protein is of such high type that if it were the only body - building food in the diet, given in snffleient quantities, it would be adequate not only to maintain I'iu, but to support normal growth. One-half pound of American Cheddar cheese will supply all the protein required by an adult for an entire day. —★— Cheese—The Energy Food In addition to its rich store of protein, cheese is also a fine source of energy. A cube of Cheddar cheese one- and-one-eighth inches square pro vides 100 calories or the equiva lent in energy value ot the lean meat of one lamb chop or one medium-sized potato. One-half pound of Cheddar cheese furnishes 1,000 calories, about^ialf the daily requirement of an adult leading a sedentary life. —★— Cheese lor Mineral Salts Because milk is rich in miner als, it follows that cheese, which is made from milk, contains these precious substances in highly con centrated form. It is an excellent source of calcium, the mineral which is responsible for building strong bones and sound teeth, and for keeping the heart beating normally. A one-and-one-fourth inch cube of American Cheddar cheese contains as much calcium as an 8-ounce glass of milk. The individual who does not eare for milk as a beverage can easily obtain the necessary cal cium from cheese. Bat it is prac tically impossible to get adequate amounts of this mineral without either milk or cheese. In rennet cheese, phosphorus, as well as calcium, is present in the same proportions as in milk, but is much more highly concen trated. As in milk, these min erals are hi a form that is most nearly perfect for easy assimi lation. Rennet-curd cheese is al ways high in sulphur and fairly high in iron. Furthermore, the iron is in the most readily assimi lated form. —★— Cheese and Vitamins Cheese is a splendid source of vitamin A, which promotes growth and increases resistance to dis ease. It is especially important for eye health and is necessary to prevent the affliction known as night blindness. The amount of vitamin A varies with the type of cheese, bat both American Ched dar and Parmesan cheese are ex tremely rich in this substance, and cream cheese is an ontstand- ing source. Vitamins B and G Do You Want to Learn Haul to Plan a lauative Diet? Cel This Free Bulletin Offered hr C. Houston Goudlu R EADERS of (his newspaper are invited to write to C. Houston Goudiss, 6 East 39th Street, New York City, for a free copy of hie bulletin, “Help ful Hints on Planning a Laxa tive Diet.” The bulletin gives concrete enggeations for combatting faulty elimination through cor rect eating and proper habita of hygiene. It gives a list of laxa tive foods and contains a toll week’s sample menus. A post card is sufficient to carry your request. Win. this Free Bullatln on Manning a Correct Summer Diet •• S END for the free bulletin an "Keeping Cool with Food,” offered by C. Houston Goudiss. It outlines the principles of plan ning a healthful summer diet, lists "cooling” end "hasting" foods and is complete with menu suggestions. Just address C. Houston Goudiss, 6 East 39th Street, New York City. A poet card is all that is necaasary to carry your requasL are also found in whole milk cheese. With this wealth of food values, one would expect to find cheese appearing on the menu in some form every day. But though the annual production of cheese in the United States exceeds 700,000,000 pounds, it should be much greater. The annual per capita consump tion is only 5V4 pounds—a woe fully small figure when we con sider the wide benefits that would result from its greater use. i The failure of American home makers to use cheese in the amounts that they should is, I be lieve, dUe to three factors: first, a lack of knowledge concerning its splendid food values; second, a' belief in the old superstition that cheese is not easy to digest; and third, failure to take advantage of the many ways in which it ca be served. —'h— Digestibility of Choaso The foregoing outline of its many food values should give a new conception of its place in tha diet. As to its digestibility, stud ies by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture have entirely disproved the fallacy that it is not completely digestible. It was found that on an average about 95 per cent of the protein and over 95 per cent of the fat of cheese were digested and ab sorbed. The various kinds of cheese tested were found to com pare favorably in digestibility with the food of an average mixed diet. It was also demonstrated ex perimentally “that there was practically no difference between cheese and meat with respect to ease of digestion, at least in such quantities as are commonly eaten.” There was also a notion that because it is so high in food value, cheese should only be eaten in small quantities. But scientific tests have proven that cheese may be eaten by normal individuals in large quantities, as the principal source of protein, ’ with entirely beneficial effects upon health. 'I Place of Choose in the Diet There is a case on record of a young roan who lived for two years on a daily diet consisting ot one-half pound of cheese, a one- pound loaf of whole wheat bread and two pounds of fruit. While this limited diet might prove mo notonous to some people, it *s pos sible to utilize cheese as the easi est method of providing important food value, varying the diet, and simplifying meal preparation. Fof there are more than 200 distino* tive varieties of cheese listed by the department of agriculture, ranging from the smooth, delicate ly flavored cream cheese, which may be given to very young chil dren, to the sharp tangy cheese which is especially popular with men. Fortunately, almost every type can be purchased in pack aged form, in sizes that are con venient for large and small fami lies, making it possible to enjoy a wide variety. , Cheese can be used as a main dish; in salads or sandwiches; as a sauce for vegetables; as a des sert. It is desirable at the same time to serve bulky foods, such as fruits and vegetables. Cheese may also be combined advantageously i with carbohydrate foods. This is because the balanced diet requires more carbohydrates than protein. 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