CHAP. XXVIII.] ..AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, 1881-1865. 



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troops in wrong directions by forged orders which he 

 despatched in place of those he intercepted. 



This raid was very successful, and the results may be 

 best summed up in the words of General Morgan's 

 Report. " I left Knoxville on the 4th day of this 

 month, witlx about 900 men, and returned to Livingston 

 on the 28th instant with nearly 1,200, having ])ecn 

 absent just twenty-four days, during which time I have 

 travelled over 1,000 miles, captured seventeen towns, 

 destroj^ed al. Jie government supplies and arms in them, 

 dispersed 1,500 home guards, and paroled nearly 1,200 

 regular troops. I lost in killed, wounded, and missing of 

 the number that I carried into Kentucky about ninety." ^ 



General Buell's army was obliged to fall back to 

 Louisville in August 1862, in consequence of a second 

 raid made by Morgan's corps, in which he took possession 

 of the Louisville and Nashville- Railroad, in Buell's rear, 

 at Gallatin, and so cut off' his communications with his 

 base.^ 



At the battle of Hartsville, shortly after the capture 

 of Gallatin, a fight took place between a portion of 

 Morgan's command and some Federal cavalry who 

 charged them with the sabre ; the account of it gives a 

 good idea of Morgan's style of fighting. General Duke 

 describes the 'attack. "Throwing down the eastern 

 fence of the meadow, some 300 poured into it, formed a 

 long line, and dashed across it with sabres drawn, 

 toward the line of horses which they saw in the road 

 beyond. Companies B, C, E, and F were by this time 

 dismounted, and had dropped on their knees behind a 

 low fence on the road side, as the enemy came rushing 

 on. They held their fire UT-til the enemy were within 

 thirty yards, when they opened. Then was seen the 

 effect of a volley from that long thin line which looked 

 so easy to break and yet whose fire was so deadly. 

 Every man had elbow-room and took dead aim at an 

 individual foe, and, as the blaze left the guns, two-thirds 

 of the riders and horses seemed to go down. The 

 cavalry was at once broken and recoiled. Our men 

 1 Duke, 205. = Ibid. 214. 



