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Page 731 Chapter XXVIII. MORGAN'S FIRST KENTUCKY RAID.

JULY 4,-23, 1862.-Morgan's first Kentucky raid.

SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS.

July 4.-Morgan's command sets out from Knoxville, Tenn.

5.-Affair at Walden's Ridge, Tenn.

9.-Capture of Tompkinsville, Ky.

12.-Skirmish near and capture of Lebanon, Ky.

14(?).-Skirmish near Mackville, Ky.

17.-Capture of Cynthiana, Ky.

19.-Skirmish near Paris, Ky.

28.-Morgan's command arrives at Livingston, Tenn.

REPORTS, ETC.


Numbers 1.-Brigadier General Jeremiah J. Boyle, U. S. Army, commanding at Louisville, Ky., with resulting orders and correspondence.


Numbers 2.-Colonel John F. Miller, Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry, commanding at Nashville, Tenn.


Numbers 3.-Colonel Sanders D. Bruce, Twentieth Kentucky Infantry, of the capture of Tompkinsville.


Numbers 4.-Major Thomas J. Jordan, Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry, of the capture of Tompkinsville.


Numbers 5.-Lieutenant Colonel John J. Landram, Eighteenth Kentucky Infantry, of the capture of Cynthiana.


Numbers 6.-Brigadier General G. Clay, U. S. Army, of operations July 13-25, including skirmish near Paris.


Numbers 7.-Colonel Cicero Maxwell, Twenty-sixth Kentucky Infantry, of operations July 18-24.


Numbers 8.-J. V. Guthrie, of operations July 16-21.


Numbers 9.-Lieutenant Colonel Sidney Burbank, Thirteenth United States Infantry, commanding at Cincinnati, Ohio.


Numbers 10.-Major General E. Kirby Smith, C. S. Army, commanding Department of East Tennessee.


Numbers 11.-Colonel John H. Morgan, Second Kentucky Cavalry (Confederate), commanding expedition.


Numbers 12.-Major R. M. Gano, Cavalry Battalion.


Numbers 13.-George A. Ellsworth, telegraph operator Morgan's command.


Numbers 14.-Lieutenant Colonel F. M. Nix, First Georgia Partisan Rangers, of the capture of Cynthiana.


Numbers 15.-Lieutenant Colonel Basil W. Duke, Second Kentucky Cavalry, of the capture of Cynthiana.


Numbers 16.-Lieutenant Joseph E. Harris, commanding Morgan's artillery.


Numbers 1.

Reports of Brigadier General Jeremiah T. Boyle, U. S. Army, commanding at Louisville, Ky., with resulting orders and correspondence.

LOUISVILLE, KY., July 10, 1862.

The rebels under Starnes, over 2,000, with three pieces of artillery, crossed from Sparta, Tenn., into Kentucky; cut to pieces Major Jordan with three companies of the Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry at Tompkinsville, and are moving on Glasgow. I have concentrated all my available forces at Munfordville and Bowling Green, but I have not sufficient force to drive back the enemy. Kentucky will be overrun and


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