The pursuit of Morgan has terminated more happily than the most sanguine could have hoped. He and all his officers, and all but a score or so of his four or five thousand men, are now prisoners at Cincinnati. Morgan and the last remnant of his followers, some three hundred, were captured near New Lisbon, Ohio, on Sunday last. The men will be held for exchange, and the officers will be placed in the penitentiary and retained till the rebels release Col Streight and his officers, who were captured on a similar raid at Rome, Georgia. Morgan has been one of the most successful of rebel raiders, and has done immense mischief in Kentucky. The Richmond papers lately declared his raid into Indiana and Ohio the only aggressive operation they were making, and the only real movement towards conquering a peace. So utter a defeat as Morgan’s has never occurred to any previous expedition, and it must prove very disheartening to the rebels. They have not even the satisfaction of knowing that Morgan accomplished something before he was taken, for the damage be did to railroads and to private property was inconsiderable, and his raid has had an excellent moral effect in converting copperheads to a degree of loyalty they have never manifested before. On the whole the capture of Morgan and his band is one of the best of our recent victories.
Springfield Weekly Republican, Springfield, MA
