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and artillery. Proceeding to Lebanon, Ool. 

 Wolford and his brigade there joined. Orders 

 were also received by Gen. Hobson from Gen. 

 Burnside, in command of the department, di- 

 recting him to assume full command, and to 

 pursue until the enemy was captured. The 

 command then marched toward Bardstown, 

 until 1 A. M. After two hours' rest the pursuit 

 was resumed. At night, a halt was made until 

 rations could be obtained by the Louisville and 

 Nashville railroad. The pursuit was renewed 

 early on Tuesday, the 7th, and by night the 

 force was within nine miles of Brandenburg. 

 Gen. Hobson, wishing to cooperate with the 

 gunboats and make a night attack, proceeded 

 with a small escort to Rock Haven. Here he 

 found that the gunboats had gone up the river. 

 It was 1 A. M. before he returned. The men 

 being so overcome with fatigue and want of 

 leep that it was almost impossible to arouse 

 them, he reluctantly concluded to wait until day- 

 break. Pushing on at that time, he reached the 

 river as the last boat with the enemy had crossed. 

 During the night the enemy marched to- 

 ward Corydon, in Indiana, which they reached 

 early the next forenoon. Some opposition 

 was made to their progress by the inhabitants. 

 Great excitement, however, prevailed in the 

 State. A proclamation was issued by Gov. 

 Morton, ordering all the able-bodied citizens in 



the southern counties of the State under arms. 

 From Corydon, Gen. Morgan moved by the 

 way of Greenville and Palmyra to Salem. At 

 Palmyra a force of three hundred and fifty- 

 Home Guards had concentrated, having fallen 

 back from near Corydon to that place. Con- 

 sidering their inability to retard the progress 

 of the enemy, they also fell back to Salem. So 

 sudden, however, was the entrance of the en- 

 emy into Salem, that these Guards were all 

 made prisoners and subsequently paroled. At 

 Salem, the depot of the Louisville and Chicago 

 railroad was burned. Orders were also issued 

 by Gen. Morgan to burn all the mills and fac- 

 tories in the town, but upon the payment of 

 one thousand dollars for each mill and factory, 

 they were spared. The railroad track was torn 

 up, the water tank near the town burned, and 

 one passenger and three freight cars. Three 

 bridges between Salem and Farrabee's Station 

 were also destroyed. Good horses were taken 

 wherever found, and the whole command was 

 remounted. From Salem the enemy moved 

 to Canton, in Washington county, four and a 

 half miles distant. Here over one hundred 

 horses were taken, and, joining his left column 

 with the right, which entered the town by 

 way of Harristown, Gen. Morgan moved in the 

 direction of Vienna, in Scott county, on the 

 line of the Jeffersonville railroad. About 11 



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