Tom Strong Lincolns Scout a Story of the United States in the Times That Trie
Tom Strong Lincolns Scout a Story of the United States in the Times That Trie
Mason, Alfred Bishop, 1851-1933
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He had been sent with dispatches to Grant and this time there had been no suggestion by the President that he might fight a bit if he felt like it. So he was now again on his way to Washington. He was a long time getting there, nearly a year; and this was the way of it. 182 Tom Strong, Lincoln's Scout 183 July 2, 1863, Gen. John H. Morgan, a brilliant and daring Confederate cavalry commander, got his troops across the Cumberland River at Burkesville, in southern Kentucky, on flat-boats and cano...es lashed together. None but he and his second in command knew whither the pro- posed raid was to lead. People about their starting-point thought Morgan was merely reconnoitering. An old farmer from Calfkills Creek went along uninvited, because he wished to buy some salt at a " salt-lick " a few miles north of Burkesville and within the Union lines. He expected to go and come back safely with Morgan's men. After he had been through a few marches and more fights and saw no chance of ever getting home, he plaintively said: '* I swar ef I wouldn't give all the salt in Kaintucky to stand once more safe and sound on the banks of Calfkills Creek.
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