Burning the Railroad Bridge
16
footsteps are heard in the hall of the eagle house hotel building but no one
can be seen.
17 morgan
spent the night at the brown-pusey house where Elizabethtown ladies met morgan
and left with a souvenir button from his coat.
18 The next
morning Morgan’s men battled 750 union soldiers at fort sands & fort boyle five
miles away on muldraugh hill. They were
guarding two 500 feet long and 100 ft. tall wooden railroad bridges.
19 after
the cannon fire, the union soldiers surrendered, & morgan’s men set the
bridges on fire. Their mission to halt
food & ammunition deliveries by burning railway bridges successfully shut
down the union supply line for five weeks.
20 Morgan’s men galloped on to bardstown on
their way back to Tennessee.
Sources:
The
News-Enterprise Morgan’s raid remembered series by Darrell bird ass. Editor
dec.26,
1992-jan. 1993
Two centuries
in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Ky.
Daniel E.
McClure, Jr., Hardin county Historical Society, 1979.
Confederate
veteran & civil war times magazines
The second
regiment kentucky infantry csa
the orphan brigade
Mr. &
mrs. Kenny coplin
Mr. Mike
beumel
Battle for
the bridge http://wwwbattleforthebridge.org/morgan.htm
Hopemont;
the hunt-morgan house
http://www.uky.edu/LCC/HIS/sites/hopemont.html
Black
clouds above the l & n
http://www.equilt.com/landn.html
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