AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF JOHN HUNT MORGAN AND HIS MEN

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Pricing & History
An incomparably rare autograph book containing the autograph of General John Hunt Morgan "The Thunderbolt of the Confederacy," and most of his officers, apparently assembled while he was prisoner at the Ohio Penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio. Quarto size, bound in red-tooled leather, containing 53 autographs, all but one on a single page side. Free end paper inscribed "Autographs of Genl. Jno. H. Morgan and his Officers Confined in the Ohio Pennitentiary, Columbus, Ohio. July 30th, 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 26th, 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 sixty-eight 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 24th, Morgan, Hines, Captains J. C. Bennett, L. D. Hockersmith, C. S. Magee, Captain Ralph Sheldon, and B. Taylor escaped. Hines read more
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