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Title
Covered
Bridge
photograph
Subject
Bridges -- Ohio River
Civil War--Prisoners and prisons
Civil War 1861-1865
Place
Chester (Ohio)
Meigs County (Ohio)
Description
This
image
shows
a
covered
bridge
near
Chester
,
Ohio
,
where
John
Morgan
made
his
escape
.
John
Hunt
Morgan
was a
prominent
Confederate
cavalry
officer
in the
American
Civil
War
. The
Northern
soldiers
took
Morgan
and
most
of his
captured
men
to
Columbus
after
an
attempted
raid
into
Ohio
. The
enlisted
men
were
confined
in the
Camp
Chase
Confederate
prison
camp
.
Morgan
and
several
of his
officers
were
held
at the
Ohio
Penitentiary
.
Morgan
arrived
there on
October
1
. He and
several
of his
men
immediately
made
plans
to
escape
. They
tunneled
out
of a
cell
into an
airshaft
on
November
13
,
1863
. They
remained
in their
cells
until
November
27
,
when
Morgan
and
six
of his
soldiers
used
the
airshaft
to
reach
the
prison
yard
. They then
fashioned
a
rope
from their
prison
uniforms
and
scaled
the
wall
.
Utilizing
some
of the
one
thousand
dollars
that his
sister
had
smuggled
into the
prison
inside
a
Bible
,
Morgan
purchased
a
train
ticket
to
Cincinnati
. He then
made
his
escape
across
the
Ohio
River
into
Kentucky
.
After
his
escape
,
Morgan
returned
to the
Confederate
army
. He
led
cavalry
forces
in
Tennessee
and
Kentucky
. On
September
4
,
1864
,
Northern
soldiers
surrounded
a
farmhouse
near
Greenville
,
Tennessee
,
where
Morgan
was
staying
. The
Confederate
general
attempted
to
escape
from the
house
, but was
shot
by the
Union
soldiers
.
Morgan
died
from his
wounds
.
General
John
Hunt
Morgan
is
buried
in
Lexington
,
Kentucky
.
Collection
Ohio
Department
of
Industrial
and
Economic
Development
Source
State
Archives
Series
741
AV
;
Box
3
,
Folder
50
Format
Picture
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
AL06520.tif
Image Height
4084
Image Width
4084
File Size
34434704 Bytes
Date created
2011-08-06
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