8.75 x 5.75" album, with embossed leather boards, Autographs in gilt on cover, fore-edges of pages in gilt, frontis is gilt, with Autographs retailed by Lippincott, Philadephia, 118pp, containing the autographs of 62 officers serving with John Morgan as well as seven additional pages containing information about officer's killed in action, or those serving on Morgan's General staff; autographs collected in 1863. Free end paper stamped J. H. Barcus, title page with inked inscription Autographs of Genl. John Hunt Morgan and other Confederate officers confined in the PENITENTIARY Coumbus, Ohio. August 1, 1863. After terrorizing the citizens of Indiana and Ohio with his daring raid, Morgan, along with nearly his entire command was captured near New Lisbon, Ohio, on July 26, 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, Illinois. In late July, Morgan and 68 of his officers were sent to Columbus and interred in the Ohio State Pennitentiary. By late October Captain Thomas E. Hines, had devised an escape plan after discovery of ventilation shaft below his cell floor from which a tunnel was ulitmately dug through two six foot thick walls and 12 feet of grouting to reach the prison wall. On the night of November 24, Morgan, Hines, Captains J. C. Bennett, L. D. Hockersmith, C. S. Magee, Captain 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 Confderate lines in Georgia. This album contains the autographs of virtually all of Morgan's men confined in Columbus, including the General himself as signer of the first page of the album, his three brothers, his brother-in-law Colonel Basil Duke, accompanied by a tipped-in carte de visite of Duke in uniform, with the penciled sentiment Yours Truly, B. W. Duke, Col. CSA, and each of the officers who escaped with Morgan. In addition, the album contains pages memorializing the deaths Colonel Waller Chenault and Major Thomas Y. Brent who were killed at the Green River Bridge at the beginning of the great raid on July 4, 1863; and Morgan's brother Thomas, who was killed the next day at a skirmish in Lebanon, Kentucky. One of several albums apparently kept by the prisoners. This is the third example we have been privileged to offer; each album has been identical, suggesting that they were sold by the prison suttler.
8.75 x 5.75" album, with embossed leather boards, Autographs in gilt on cover, fore-edges of pages in gilt, frontis is gilt, with Autographs retailed by Lippincott, Philadephia, 118pp, containing the autographs of 62 officers serving with John Morgan as well as seven additional pages containing information about officer's killed in action, or those serving on Morgan's General staff; autographs collected in 1863. Free end paper stamped J. H. Barcus, title page with inked inscription Autographs of Genl. John Hunt Morgan and other Confederate officers confined in the PENITENTIARY Coumbus, Ohio. August 1, 1863. After terrorizing the citizens of Indiana and Ohio with his daring raid, Morgan, along with nearly his entire command was captured near New Lisbon, Ohio, on July 26, 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, Illinois. In late July, Morgan and 68 of his officers were sent to Columbus and interred in the Ohio State Pennitentiary. By late October Captain Thomas E. Hines, had devised an escape plan after discovery of ventilation shaft below his cell floor from which a tunnel was ulitmately dug through two six foot thick walls and 12 feet of grouting to reach the prison wall. On the night of November 24, Morgan, Hines, Captains J. C. Bennett, L. D. Hockersmith, C. S. Magee, Captain 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 Confderate lines in Georgia. This album contains the autographs of virtually all of Morgan's men confined in Columbus, including the General himself as signer of the first page of the album, his three brothers, his brother-in-law Colonel Basil Duke, accompanied by a tipped-in carte de visite of Duke in uniform, with the penciled sentiment Yours Truly, B. W. Duke, Col. CSA, and each of the officers who escaped with Morgan. In addition, the album contains pages memorializing the deaths Colonel Waller Chenault and Major Thomas Y. Brent who were killed at the Green River Bridge at the beginning of the great raid on July 4, 1863; and Morgan's brother Thomas, who was killed the next day at a skirmish in Lebanon, Kentucky. One of several albums apparently kept by the prisoners. This is the third example we have been privileged to offer; each album has been identical, suggesting that they were sold by the prison suttler.
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