[Andersonville by John McElroy]@TWC D-Link bookAndersonville CHAPTER XI 11/12
I never heard of one refusing to trade for greenbacks, and if the men on guard could not be restrained by these stringent laws, what hope could there be of restraining anybody else? One day we were favored with a visit from the redoubtable General John H. Morgan, next to J.E.B.Stuart the greatest of Rebel cavalry leaders. He had lately escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary.
He was invited to Richmond to be made a Major General, and was given a grand ovation by the citizens and civic Government.
He came into our building to visit a number of the First Kentucky Cavalry (loyal)--captured at New Philadelphia, East Tennessee--whom he was anxious to have exchanged for men of his own regiment--the First Kentucky Cavalry (Rebel)--who were captured at the same time he was.
I happened to get very close to him while he was standing there talking to his old acquaintances, and I made a mental photograph of him, which still retains all its original distinctness.
He was a tall, heavy man, with a full, coarse, and somewhat dull face, and lazy, sluggish gray eyes.
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