Identifier: famousadventures93cabl (find matches)
Title: Famous adventures and prison escapes of the civil war
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 Pittenger, William, 1840-1904 Richards, A. E. (Adolphus Edwards), 1844-1920 Duke, Basil Wilson, 1838-1916 Willcox, Orlando B Hines, Thomas Henry Moran, Frank E Shelton, W. H. (William Henry), 1840-1932? Wood, John Taylor
Subjects: Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916 Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875 Libby Prison Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862 Morgan's Ohio Raid, 1863
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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an. He madethe grand tour, was hurried along day after daythrough battle and ambush, dragged night after nighton the remorseless march, ferried over the broad Ohiounder fire of the militia and gunboats, and lodgedat last in a loathsome dungeon. On one occasion,in Ohio, when the home guards were peppering us inrather livelier fashion than usual, he said to CaptainC. H. Morgan, with tears in his voice: I swar if Iwould nt give all the salt in Kaintucky to stand oncemore safe and sound on the banks of Calfkiller Creek.Pushing on before dawn of the 3d, we reached Co-lumbia in the afternoon. The place was occupied bya detachment of Colonel Frank Wolfords brigade,which was quickly driven out. Encamping thatevening some eight miles from Columbia, we couldhear all night the ringing of the axes near GreenRiver bridge, on the road from Columbia to Campbells-ville. Three or four hundred of the 25th MichiganInfantry were stationed at the bridge to protect it; A KOMANCE OF MORGANS EOUGH-RIDEES 125
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126 ADVENTUKES AND ESCAPES IN THE CIVIL WAE but the commander, Colonel Orlando H. Moore, de-liberately quitting the elaborate stockade erected nearthe bridge,—in which nine officers out of ten wouldhave remained, but where we could have shelled himinto surrender without losing a man ourselves,— se-lected one of the strongest natural positions I ever saw,and fortified it skilfully although simply. The GreenRiver makes here an immense horseshoe sweep, withthe bridge at the toe of the horseshoe; and more thana mile south of it was the point where Colonel Mooreelected to make his fight. The river there wound backso nearly upon its previous course that the peninsula,or neck, was scarcely a hundred yards wide. Thisnarrow neck was also very short, the river bendingalmost immediately to the west again. At that timeit was thickly covered with trees and undergrowth, andColonel Moore, felling the heaviest timber, had con-structed a formidable abatis across the narrowest partof it. Just in fr

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