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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Morgan 's cavalry during the Bragg invasion. (search)
Morgan's cavalry during the Bragg invasion. by Basil W. Duke, Brigadier-General, C. S. A.
While Bragg was concentrating at Chattanooga, in August, 1862, preparatory to his march into Kentucky, Colonel John H. Morgan, with his cavalry command, numbering some nine hundred effectives, was actively engaged in middle Tennessee, operating chiefly against the Federal garrisons in the vicinity of Nashville, and the detachments employed immediately north and to the east of that city.
All of these were successively captured or dispersed, and on the 21st of August Morgan defeated and completely routed a select body of cavalry, twelve hundred strong, sent under command of General R. W. Johnson to drive him out of Tennessee.
Of this force 164 were killed and wounded, and a much larger number, including Johnson and his staff, were made prisoners.
Morgan had been notified of the intended invasion of Kentucky, and part of his duty was the destruction of the railroad track and bridges betwee
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Union vessels in the Vicksburg operations. (search)