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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.)
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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.
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are also found in whole milk
cheese.
With this wealth of food values,
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annual production of cheese in the
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pounds, it should be much greater.
The annual per capita consump
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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.
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The foregoing outline of its
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disproved the fallacy that it is not
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It was found that on an average
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cheese and meat with respect to
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There was also a notion that
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cheese should only be eaten in
small quantities. But scientific
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large quantities, as the principal
source of protein, ’ with entirely
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'I
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There is a case on record of a
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pound loaf of whole wheat bread
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the department of agriculture,
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ly flavored cream cheese, which
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which is especially popular with
men. Fortunately, almost every
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Cheese can be used as a main
dish; in salads or sandwiches; as
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time to serve bulky foods, such as
fruits and vegetables. Cheese may
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with carbohydrate foods. This is
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more carbohydrates than protein.
And cheese is essentially a pro
tein feed, interchangeable with
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