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Tango0111 May 2026 1:46 p.m. PST

… and Ohio

"Micah C. Saufley, a Confederate veteran who served in the 6th Kentucky Cavalry and rode with John Morgan, wrote the following letter to his daughter on Christmas day, 1906 giving his reminiscences of Morgan's raid through Indiana and Ohio and his capture shortly after Buffington Island. It was shared at a United Daughters of the Confederacy meeting in Knoxville on January 16, 1907, and subsequently published in the Knoxville Sentinel.

First Lieutenant Micah C. Saufley served in Co. H of the 6th Kentucky Cavalry, riding as part of Morgan's command from his enlistment until his capture in Ohio in the days after Buffington Island. After the war, he entered the practice of law and was elected judge in 1870. He was appointed to the territorial supreme court of Wyoming in 1888 by President Grover Cleveland and served in that capacity until Wyoming achieved statehood in 1890. Returning to his home in Stanford, Kentucky, he again served as a judge and was regarded as one of the best circuit judges in Kentucky. He died August 12, 1910, at the age of 68…"


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doc mcb11 May 2026 2:29 p.m. PST

I'm sent to warm the neighbors, he isn't a mile behind, he sweeps up all the horses, every horse that he can find: Morgan, Morgan the raider, and Morgan's terrible men, with bowie knives and pistols, are galloping up the glen.

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