| A look at Morgan’s Raiders and their dash through Meigs County, Ohio during the Civil War in 1863 which culminated in the Battle of Buffington Island, the only major battle of the war fought on Ohio soil. Accounts, Notes, Telegrams, Dairy Entries, Facts and Pictures |
"While the bulk of the regiments, which General Morgan was drawing off, were moving from the field in
perfect order, there were many stragglers from each, who were circling about the valley in a delirium of fright,
clinging instinctively, in all their terror, to bolts of calico and holding on to led horses, but changing the
direction in which they galloped, with every shell which whizzed or burst near them."
perfect order, there were many stragglers from each, who were circling about the valley in a delirium of fright,
clinging instinctively, in all their terror, to bolts of calico and holding on to led horses, but changing the
direction in which they galloped, with every shell which whizzed or burst near them."
Colonel Basil W. Duke,
2nd Kentucky Cavalry, CSA.
2nd Kentucky Cavalry, CSA.
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