Early life of General Morgan--His qualities as a commander--His personal qualities. 18
Political condition of Kentucky in 1861--Bewilderment of the people--Camp Dick Robinson--First entrance of Confederate troops. 31
Military situation in the West--Advance to Bowlinggreen--Scarcity of arms--Organization of the army--Want of discipline--Qualities which compensated for its absence. 57
Morgan leaves Lexington--Roger W. Hanson--Service on Green River--Scouting--Our first skirmish--Narrow escape--Terry's Rangers. 88
Retreat from Bowlinggreen--Evacuation of Nashville--Our Fourth Ohio acquaintances--Scouting near Nashville--Morgan holds Murfreesboro'--Dash on Mitchell--Night attack--Capture of Gallatin--Stampede of our pickets--Promotion of Morgan--Concentration at Corinth. 110
Battle of Shiloh--Death of Sidney Johnson--Result of the battle--Expedition into Tennessee--Cotton turning and telegraphing--Defeat at Lebanon--Expedition to Cave City in Kentucky. 138
Reorganization at Chattanooga--First raid into Kentucky--Fight at Tompkinsville--Capture of Lebanon--Telegraphic strategy--Morgan master of the situation--Fight at Cynthiana--Evade the pursuing troops. 169
Capture of Gallatin--Active service near Nashville--Fights at Gallatin and Cairo--Destruction of the railroad--Sojourn at Hartsville--The videttes--Kentuckians running from the draft--"_The Vidette._" 208
Again on the march for Kentucky--Bushwhacking experience--The Confederate army enters the State--Service in front of Covington--Efforts to embarrass the retreat of the Federal General Morgan--Fight at Augusta--Retreat of the army from Kentucky--Morgan captures Lexington. 229
Morgan's retreat through Southwestern Kentucky--At Gallatin again--Scouting and ambuscades--Driven from Gallatin--A week's fighting around Lebanon--Battle of Hartsville. 282
December raid into Kentucky--Capture of Elizabethtown--Fighting at the Rolling Fork--Escape from the toils. 317
Service during the winter of '63 and '64--Cluke's raid into Kentucky--Battle of Milton--Defeat at Snow's Hill. 344
Service in Tennessee, and on the Cumberland in Kentucky--Fight at Greasy Creek--Active scouting--The division starts for the Ohio--Crossing of the Cumberland in the face of the enemy--Fights at Columbia, Green River and Lebanon--Crossing the Ohio--The militia objecting--Fight with the gunboats--March through Indiana and Ohio--Detour around Cincinnati--Defeat at Buffington. 388