different squads of home guards as they passed by. Without stopping to rest during the 11th and 12th, they reached Harrison, a village in Ohio, at about noon the 13th of July. The invaders evidently feared an attack from troops stationed at Cincinnati, and hence they moved on with great rapidity, although in a deplorable condition for the want of rest, being compelled to eat and sleep as they journeyed. They passed through Glendale, about twenty miles north of Cincinnati, crossing the Little Miami Railroad near Camp Dennison and marching on to Williamsburg, about thirty miles east of Cincinnati, where a halt was made for a few hours of rest and sleep. Early in the morning the invaders leaving Williamsburg marched in great haste through Piketon, Jackson and Berlin. At the last named place a fight occurred between the invaders and a gallant malitia company; several of Morgan's men were killed and wounded.

On the 18th the invaders passed near Pomeroy and from this point they were constantly harrassed by some regular soldiers who now made their appearance and took an active part in the race.

The invaders were evidently seeking a favorable fording place. They had by this time become heartily sick of the hospitality of Indiana and Ohio, notwithstanding their wants were abundantly supplied without money and price. Their purpose to cross the Ohio River at Buffington Island was now well understood by the Union troops. The ford was guarded by a company of malitia. On the morning of the 19th the regular Union troops from Pomeroy arrived and a fight took place. The invaders fought bravely but were soon thrown into great confusion and nearly one thousand of their number captured. The number killed and wounded on both sides was small. Two or three hundred of Morgan's men succeeded in crossing the Ohio River above Buffington Island whilst the General with about one thousand of his men were endeavoring to get away from Generals Hobson and Judah. He was overtaken and captured by Union General Shackleford; thus the invasion suddedly came to an end and the captured invaders were sent to the various military prisons.

What the real purpose of the invaders was, if

there was any well defined purpose, has never been developed. A part of the invaders found homes on Johnston's Island, whilst others were confined in Camp Chase at Columbus. General Morgan with sixty-seven of his men were confined in the penitentiary at Columbus, O. This was done in retaliation--the Confederacy having confined certain Union soldiers in Southern prisons. Having made a careful survey of at least that part of the prison in which they were confined, and ascertaining, in some way that has not been explained, that there was an air chamber under the floor of some of the cells in which they were confined, by cutting a hole through the floor they reached the air chamber. tools used were knives that had been slipped from the table at meal time and other pieces of iron secured in the prison yard. They having gained an entrance into the prison yard through the air chamber, they now had to scale a wall twenty-five feet high. This was done by tearing some of their bed clothes into strips and then platting them into a stout rope; the rope was fastened to a hook they had used in opening the

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way under the prison. This rope served as a ladder upon which they ascended to the top of the wall, and then fastening the rope and adjusting it on the other side they descended without difficulty. The night was dark and rainy which was all the more favorable. How they obtained the information necessary to enable them to escape, and how the seven members that escaped secured citizens' clothes, has not been revealed.

TWO FEMALE SPIES.

CHAPTER VIII.

One of the strong

General Grant had a wonderful capacity for originating and carrying out strategic plans. This peculiar faculty enabled him to accomplish great ends often during the war, without (seemingly) employing adequate means. points in his nature was not to divulge his plans to any one. He conceived the idea that it would accomplish much in the way of breaking the back-bone of the rebellion to make a successful raid from some point in Tennessee to the sea. But he must in some way secure information in regard to the route the army making the raid must take in order to reach the eastern sea-board. How to get a correct topography of the country through which the army must pass was a question hard to solve. He must know where an army of from sixty to eighty thousand strong could find provisions enough to sustain it in an enemy's land. It was too late in the war to send male