2020-01 Putnal
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/18/2020
Unusual pair of Morgan Raid items, includes: Autograph Letter Signed by A.S. Stuver, Co I 115th Ohio Volunteers, 4pp. octavo, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 26, 1863, and reads in part: "...Since I wrote to you last, the Morgan Raid has taken place, and we had to turn out in full strength. Morgan was at the nearest point, 11 miles from Cincinnati and at the same time we were 5 miles from Cincinnati....There was a great scare here then, but as Morgan moved over 40 miles a day it was soon over. 2400 of Morgan's men came down the river in the last 2 days; the men were sent to Indianapolis, Ind. and the officers about 100 of them are in the City Prison here. There are some more expected in a day or two. Morgan has only got about 600 men with him, and today they are in Columbiana Co. but it is not likely that they will get much further. Yesterday Major McCook the father of 6 sons in the army, was buried here. He was killed in the Battle of Buffington Island, where so many of Morgan's men were taken prisoners....Two of Major McCook's sons, a private and Brig Gen. have been killed. One is yet a Maj. Gen., two colonels, and one a Capt. They were all on his funeral. Maj. McCook was a Paymaster in the army and went voluntary after Morgan. He was 60 years old..." Fine condition...plus; Partly-printed Document Signed, "Morgan Raid Claims" 2pp. folio, May 4, 1869, for $220 of Asahel Skinner's property lost in Rutland County. Fine condition. Morgan's Raid was a diversionary incursion by Confederate cavalry into the northern U.S. states of Indiana and Ohio during the American Civil War. The raid took place from June 11-July 26, 1863, and is named for the commander of the Confederates, Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan. Although it caused temporary alarm in the North, the raid was ultimately classed as a failure. The raid covered more than 1,000 miles , beginning in Tennessee and ending in northern Ohio. It coincided with the Vicksburg Campaign and the Gettysburg Campaign, and it was meant to draw U.S. troops away from these fronts by frightening the North into demanding their troops return home. Despite his initial successes, Morgan was thwarted in his attempts to recross the Ohio River and eventually was forced to surrender what remained of his command in northeastern Ohio near the Pennsylvania border. Morgan and other senior officers were kept in the Ohio state penitentiary, but they tunneled their way out and took a train to Cincinnati, where they crossed the Ohio River to safety.
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