2020-01 Putnal
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/18/2020
5" x 7-1/2" album, with embossed leather boards, Autographs in gilt on cover, fore-edges of pages in gilt, frontis is gilt, with Autographs retailed by Lippincott, Philadelphia, 57 Morgan Raiders Prisoners signatures, signed with rank, date and includes hometown, one per page. The pages are clean although loose from the binding. About half the album has blank pages. Free end paper with inked inscription "Autographs of Genl. John Hunt Morgan and other Confederate officers confined in the PENITENTIARY Columbus, Ohio. July 30, 1863. " The album contains the autographs of "Jno. H. Morgan", his brother Col. R.C. Morgan and relatives Thos. Morgan, C.C. Morgan, and C.H. Morgan . It includes those involved in the escape, Morgan, Hockersmith, Hines After terrorizing the citizens of Indiana and Ohio with his daring raid, Morgan, along with nearly his entire command was captured near New Lisbon, OH on July 26th, 1863. Morgan and his men were initially moved down river to Cincinnati. From this embarkation point, enlisted men were sent to Camp Douglas near present-day Chicago, IL. In late July, Morgan, and sixty-eight of his officers were sent to Columbus and interred in the Ohio State Penitentiary. By late October Captain Thomas E. Hines, had devised an escape plan after discovery of a ventilation shaft below his cell floor from which a tunnel was ultimately dug through two six-foot thick walls and twelve feet of grouting to reach the prison wall. On the night of November 24th, Morgan, Hines, Captains J. C. Bennett, L. D. Hockersmith, C. S. Magee, Ralph Sheldon, and B. Taylor escaped. Hines and Morgan traveled by train to Cincinnati, crossed the Ohio River into Kentucky and wound their way back to Confederate lines in Georgia.
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