"The next invasion of Indiana occurred in June of the fol-
lowing year. General John H. Morgan's men, collectively
and in detached bands, had become famous for partisan war-
fare in Kentucky and Tennessee, raiding towns, holding up
and robbing trains, destroying railroad property, and com-
mitting deeds of violence amounting to plain highway rob-
bery, except so far as they were excused by a state of war.
Captain Thomas Hines, of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry, was
one of the celebrated guerrilla leaders in Morgan's band.
Early in June, 1863, he obtained permission from General
Morgan to take such of his men as were best mounted, and
scout north of the Cumberland river. 3
2 Smith's History of Indiana, pages 360, 361.
Adjt. Gen. Terrell's Report. Vol. 1, page 146.
s Morgan's Cavalry, pag*J 430.
136 Morgan's Raid in Indiana
On June 13th, 1863, he advanced with 120 men to Eliza-
bethtown, Kentucky, forty miles southwest of Louisville,
where he plundered the citizens, and broke open the safe of
the Adams Express Company, and stole the contents. He
then stopped a south bound freight train loaded with horses,
and after taking 120 of the horses set fire to the train and
fled. His company was pursued by Federal troops, and part
of them were captured, with some of the stolen horses. 4
Finding Kentucky too warm for him, he resolved to cross
over into Indiana and "stir up the copperheads," as General
Basil Duke expressed it. 5
Two days after the raid on Elizabethtown, sixty-four of
these men 6 reached the Ohio river, forty miles northwest of
Elizabethtown, and about half way between Louisville and
Evansville, which were the nearest points on the river reached
by railroads and telegraph lines. At five o'clock on Thurs-
day morning, June 18, they crossed on 7 wood boats into
Perry county, Indiana, at Flint Island, between Rome and
Cannelton, 8 swimming their horses twenty or thirty yards
across the only part of the shallow channel which the horses
could not wade. 9 They were not in uniform, but were
dressed in ordinary clothes, each man carrying two revolvers,
4 Louisville Journal, June 15, 1863.
New Albany Daily Ledger, June 14, 1863.
s Morgan's Cavalry, page 431.
Madison Courier, June 25, 1863.
New Albany Daily Ledger, June 22, 1863.
6 New Albany Daily Ledger, June 22, 1863.
Indianapolis Journal, June 23, 1863.
7 New Albany Daily Ledger, June 22, 1863.
s Indianapolis Journal, June 23, 1863.
Madison Courier, June 24, 1863.
Smith's History of Indiana, page 373.
9 New Albany Daily Ledger, June 19, 1863.
Morgan's Raid in Indiana 137
while they also carried a medley of muskets, rifles and shot-
guns. 10
They rode north through Perry county into Orange coun-
ty, and as they went they made frequent stops to exchange
their jaded horses for fresh ones, pretending that they were
Union troops looking for deserters, and giving pretended
orders on the United States quartermaster at Indianapolis in
payment of any agreed difference in price. 11 . They even
went so far as to arrest two deserters who were pointed out
to them, and compelled the prisoners to accompany them for
several miles. 12 They arrived near Orleans, in Orange
county, fifty miles north, at six o'clock that evening. 13 But
having become an object of suspicion and finding that the
militia were gathering to oppose them, they forcibly seized
the horses of a party of fourteen militiamen. Then, turn-
ing east to the Washington county line, and meeting a man
who refused to give up his horse, they knocked him to the
ground, and when he got up and ran they shot him in the
back, and killed him,"
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