DARING SOLDIER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 253, 24 October 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)

DARING SOLDIER.

AMERICAN OFFICER. STORY OF UNION WARS. LONG is the roll of history's famous personages alleged to have entered the realm of the "living dead." As related in previous chapters of this series, the list is by various authorities supposed to include Marshal Ney, the Archduke Johann, Sir Hector Macdonald, Wilkes Booth, Louis XVII., King Sebastian, Stephen the Little and Czar Demetrius. Another which we should add to the list is that daring American soldier John Hunt Morgan, popularly known during civil war times as "Morgan the Raider." History ; says that this fearless officer was killed while attempting to escape from his Union captors in 1804. Traditon says otherwise. Morgan was born in Alabama 111 years ago, and when a child was taken by his parents to Kentucky. In the Mexican War lie fought with Zachary Taylor, and in '61 offered his sword to the Confederate cause, first distinguishing himself at the head of a squadron of°cavalry in the Battle of. Shiloh. Morgan was riot at all lacking in faith in himself. At the head of 1200 men he now began his career as a raider, and his first exploit was an invasion of Kentucky from pastern Tennessee. It was his conviction that while he rode through his home State vast hordes of men would flock to his standard -that he would become the liberator of Kentucky. Defeating the Union troops at Tomkinsville, he uttered a fiery proclamation and began preparing for Bragg's invasion of that State.' True to his anticipations, many young men joined Morgan, and his force charged through Kentucky upon a career of plunder and destruction. . Like a Thief in the Night. Like a thief in the night he would descend upon Union forces and take large numbers of them prisoners, and the next day he would -be heard of burning bridges and destroying railway tracks, stealing horses and terrifying