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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], East Tennessee. (search)
jor General John Morgan, with Captains J. C. Bennett, S. B. Taylor, Ralph Sheldon, T. I. Hines. L. Q. Hokersmith, and S. T. Magee, made his escape from the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus, on Friday night, and has reached Toronto, Canada, with his companions. With his usual good humor, he telegraphed from Toronto to Columbus that they needn't put themselves to any further trouble on his account. A telegram from Cincinnati gives the following description of the manner of his escape: Col. Dick Morgan (a brother of Gen. John Morgan) and six Captains were confined in the lower range of cells, and with knives dog through the floor of the cell, which was composed of cement and nine inches of brick. Underneath the cell was an air chamber, running the whole length of the building. This was known to them. When once in the chamber they dug through the earth to the outside wall. Gen. Morgan occupied the cell over Col. Morgan's. On Friday night, as the prisoners were locked up for the nig