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Show Tin: VAtJNA FiN. AI IN A. ITAII Jta Civuliiiof teOld H NDIA AND ITS PEOPLES 6 y Copt. L R. Cloud Robimon WHAT IS INDIA? getwfiHiirtt, th eierug ry Utile shout India. been annihilated, ha there hut Fpent . a la eur aroirra rlviUzaiMi. hy EXCKIT StS.S. iL Me-graph- ' Ay J Ui iCMi ii (Jen. ; JohnHMonj BPICNTLY ii Sr look plar In Lrxlnf (on, Ky, cemtxiuy yhlih was the them of many nwa aturlr In paprra throughout lh country and which recalled for a moment lit name of on of (It m'Mt plcturroqu figure la American lilMory. It the for mal nefl!n( 10 the public of the old borne of Gen. John Hunt Morgan, famoua Confederate commander In lb (1U war. Thla home, now owned Lrxlngion woman, Mr. John by John at one, ha I men reunited to lh architectural alyl of antebellum day and, remaining aa It doe, many ndlca of thla cavalier of th old South, It now aland aa a memorial to a man whoa deeda marked him aa on of th boldeat and moat daubing cavalry leadera o our blatory. Among thou who attended th opening wu a little group of aged men to whom thla ceremony had a apodal significance. There were only IK of them and they were the survivors of the thou eanda who rod with Morgan on thoae tqioctncu-l- r mid which made him the Idol of hla follower. They entered the front door, through which once rode General Morgan and hla Lexington Rifles, and walked reverently through Ita room, characteristically Southern lu their simplicity and spaciousness. They saw the massive chandeliers, the heavy doors and the circular alalrwny, which are Juki aa they were when thla fine old munalon houaed the gallant and debonair horseman, only mellowed and made even more beautiful by the pmoting years. They pointed out to each other the south gateway Into the paved courtyard through which, according to local tradition, the general, pursued by bla enemies, rode hla beloved uiare, Itlaek Ilea," and clattered up the side steps to bid furcwell to Ids adored mother. John Hunt Morgan was born In Huntsville, Ala., June 1, 182(1, the oldest of the six sons of Calvin C. Morgan. When he was four years old his father moved to Kentucky where he bought a farm In Fayette county. There the future cavalryman grew to manhood and at the outbreak of the Mexican war enlisted In the service, rising to the position of first lieutenant In a cavalry regiment. When the Civil wur sturted he was a prosperous young business uinn of Lexington, having married the daughter of a lending merchant of that town, John W. Hunt, and being engaged In the manufacture of bugging. It Is said that at first Morgan remained neutral, hoping thut Impending conflict would be settled nmlcubl.v, hut when a Federal force front Cutup Hick Robinson entered Lexington he was angered hy the Invasion und decided to cast his fortunes with the Confederacy. Morgan's official position in the Civil war Is something of an anomaly. In that respect, It resembled the position of his homeland, Kentucky. It was oue of the border states which both the North and the South tried to win to their sides und It furnished thousands of uieu for both armies. In It the horrors of civil conflict were shown at their worst. Families were divided and frequently brother fought against brother. It was a fertile field for guerilla warfare and such was the nature of much of the fighting which took place upon Its soil. Morgan became such a thorn In the, side of various Union comnmnders and gave the citizens of two Northern states such a scare by his spectacular raids that amid the blind passion and prejudice of the war. he came to be regarded in the North as a guerilla lender. On the other hand, the South regarded him as a regular Confederate cavalryman, subject to the orders of higher Confederate officers and the government ' at Richmond. Certainly he was regularly commissioned as a captain of Kentucky volunteers, attached to the division of Gen. Simon U. Buckner, early In the war, as the colonel of a cavalry regiment In Gen. Braxton Braggs army In 1SG2-6and later as a brigadier-generaOne of General Morgan's men was an expert telegraph operator, who carried Ids Instrument behind his saddle. On one occasion Morgan wanted to know If there were any Federal troops at Louisville who could he sent quickly to Bowling Green to reinforce the large force stationed there and cut him off while he was raiding behind the Union lines. General, Boyle was in command at Louisville and General Granger at Bowling Green. Reaching ttie main railway line between the two b Morgan had his telegrapher tap the a cities, line and put himself in communication with Boyle whom he informed that Morgan had been In the vicinity of Bowling Green and that there was dangef of his attacking the town. IIow many troops can you send immediately to force me? tapped out the telegrapher on his ' key, ending the message with the name Granger." Back came the reply, There are no troops in Louisville who can be made at once available. Are there troops elsewhere who could he sent to Bowling Green? If so, where are they now? tele-agrap- ,in hl IbrCrfu. that mt lh hat nere a counlike France rdisly. Instead f e try continent or rviuhinsUoa of countries tike Europe. V ar apt to forget that India ha a population nf S2U.taa.ut, coiumI nf different race, speaking different languages and prat thing different religion. W iIm forget th social or rla result of caste, Hindu is under shirlt every eysietn bora IniQ a group which for life 1 Ones hla omiaHou. method ol lit In and even marriage limitation. There are 2.PNI lllolu rastr la India, and It le difficult lo realize lhal Hindu out nf a Mal of tint . re looked up hy lh castes whl.h are shore them as untouchables or Sours Lots of folk who think they have Tndigeeil0a" have only an add condition which could he corrected In five or ten minute. An effective anti add like 1hlUlpe Milk ef Micnctia oon restore d'.gt-itloto normal. n )HcrT9 cf G f v - 4 ' ' John Hurt Morna Kif outcast. ago when the conquering Aryans descended from the North and became ruler slid masters MV. nf Indie, they formed a hlghet rlvlll t , a tlnn Ihso the dark. Dili k featured aborigine, and lo preserve their own purity of race, decided lo exclude ihe V-- r earlier rare from their more Intimate social settlement. Thu originated this body of untouchable.'" Touching them, nr even coming Into remote routed with them. Involves the high caste Hindus lo ceremonial defilement It I Interesting to note that In a re cent utterance the siatkesniau of these 7U.tRMi.tNS) people declared tlmwelf en eneral and MraMorgm tlrely opposed lo Ihe policy of Mahatma Gandhi, th Instigator nf ihe resistance In of mnvemrnl passive sued by thousand of Federal front the Kentucky Indlu. camp, and facing hostile militia, populace and Just (lien, region the size soldiery wherever be might turn. Descending on of all Imagine, exclusive only of Rue Europe, to bar be found militia drawn 4,000 up Corydon, of lati28 over sin. degree stretching hi way. II dispersed them end moved on withof 40 and longitude, with degrees out halting through Salisbury and Palmyra to tude S20.1NNMMI. practicing of a ' population Salem. There he tapped telegraph line and 130 learned of the frantic effort the Federal were nine great religions end sinking six dls lo dialects different belongings making to capture him, and of the wild reports Is India of an Immense Invading Confederate force which tlnd families of sieecli. That statisthe of view of the from point were being circulated. tician. From Salem he proceeded on up the Ohio, Statistics usually are dull and comand burning ae he went. In an effort to things, but at least In the monplace cripple the transportation system and deprive the we muy say that they India case of Federal of their stores. At Versailles he encounIf their meaning Is to are startling. tered a strong force of enemy troop sent to capmust clothe them with we be gru8ed. ture him but eluded them and continued on his This cun only be blood. and flesh way. After threatening Cincinnati, he aklrted the extensive traveling end hard done by city and reached Camp Shady. There he destroyed and romantlr In that vast, mysterious a large oumber of Federal army wagons, much land. and layother supplies. Continuing east, forage ing waste to rail lines, he finished his dash through Ohio at Pomeroy. At that time It was estimated 25,000 Federal troops were In hot pur- THE HIGHWAY TO INDIA suit of the daring raiders. Even then Morgan might have made his escape FROM the dawn ot history India been the victim of Invasion into Virginia, hut for an unexpected rise in the Ohio that delayed the command and prevented it after Invasion. What of the gateway from crossing the river Immediately. While they through which these Invasions caiue? A little north of latitude 34. a natural were compelled to wait. Federal troops and gunboats came up. The raiders pushed further up the cnl In the mountains, runs for a dis'river to another ford. Here many crossed before tance of 20 miles from lamrud on the the pursuers caught up, and tnnde their escape. edge of the tran Indus plain to ao Hemmed In hy Federal. the remainder of the open spot at Land! Khnna on the bor It Is known as command split up in small groups some escaping, der of Afghanistan. some being captured. General Morgan and a large the Kliyber pass. number of Ids men escaped, doubled back on the Until the advent ot sea power this trail and headed toward Athens and Zanesville. historic highway constituted practiBut the game was almost up. And ironically cally the only channel through which which enough It "took a Kentuckian to catch a Kentuck-lun- . could enier the many Influences For when Morgan was finally surrounded have played so large a pari In shaping the destinies of India. It provided und forced to surrender near Lisbon In Columbimala Inlet through which flowed the surrenman tie whom to ana county. Ohio, jhe the tide of Aryun stock which took dered was MaJ. George V. Rue of the Ninth Kenof the Ganges tucky cavalry of the Union army, a native of root tn the fertile soil Lexington, an old acquaintance of Morgan's before valley and gate to the world the rich the wur and an old adversary of his during the gift of Indian thought and civilization. first two years of the war. Rue hud entered the Many centuries later, though still 300 comof ns a years before the Christian era. a Union service the captain cavalry pany which he had organized and, according to western civilization, lured by the story of the richness of the country widen Ids reminiscences, published In the Ohio Archeological and Historical Society Publications sev- lay beyond, for the first time trod Its eral years ago, tie "was kept busy chasing John stony path. This was the Invasion of Morgan out of Kentucky. Six times I drove him Alexander Ihe Great. A thousand years out of the 'state, on six different occasions, before after Christ came another conqueror. the raid into Ohio when he surrendered to me Mahmud of Gaznl, oeidng up another on the Cuhaugh farm, where the monument bus momentous chapter in the story of the been erected." Thut monument stands south of continent Mahmud wns out for pi tin Lisbon and bears this Inscription : This stone der und he met and defeated the at Peshawar. This marked marks the spot where the Confederate raider, ot the Mohammedan invaGeneral John Morgan, surrendered his command to Major George W. Rue, July 20, 1803, and is sion which was to end In the Mogul the farthest point north ever readied ly aiiy dynasty, the splendor of whose sway body of Confederate troops during the Civil war. Is perhaps unsurpassed In the annals Erected by Will L. Thompson, East Liverpool, of the world. Ohio, Today the Khyber pass plays a less historic purl, hut is still, as It was Columwas to sent his surrender Morgan After main land thoroughfare bethe before, bus where he was imprisoned In the Ohio peniIndia and central and western tween he and six months later, however, tentiary. Four Asia. of his uien dug through the stone floor of the made with the By an agreement dungeon in which they were confined, tunneled under the walls and, after a series of hairbreadth Afridis towards the end ot the lust escapes from capture while making their way century, the safety of the pass was south, finally managed to reneh the Confederate entrusted to the Afrldl tribe, which lines in safety. After taking part In some minor provided a body of men for patrol and Oils corps engagements in West Virginia and Kentucky he escort duties. More recently went to Tennessee and there on September 4, was placed on a regulut basis paid, armed and officered h.v British officers, 1SC4, while stationed at a farmhouse near Greenbecame a regiment known as the and was in a surrounded be the by ville, Tenn, night detachment of Federal troops under Gen. A. C. Khyber Rifles. The road as now Gillem. His presence there had been betrayed by metalled and graded, and you may a young woman who was living in the house. travel it In comfort by automobile and Kotsi. While attempting to escape a trooper shot him view the great fort ot Great Britain of ultimate the outpost hi a close through the heart, thus bringing to In the direction of Afghanistan. gallant and colorful career. Thousands vt year ty with U that 1Miiip. dors and gtt right after meeia. It prevents the dUret to ept ( occur two hour after rating. Vbt plreant preparation to take I And how good It Is forth system I Unlike a burning dose of soda which I hut temporary relief at beat rh ll ip Milk of Magnesia neutral-li- e many time It volume In add. Next time a beany meal, or loo diet ha brought oo th deb lead discomfort, try euurneMi I Milk M.iu) Cher l. I HK fV," of Magnesia rastaaa TelUat A Morgan St atue in Lexinqton CourtYard How soon could they be brought up to strengthen the town's defenses?' was the next message from the bogus Granger." Boyle replied, naming the places where troops were then stationed, stnting their exact number and calculating the time required to transport them to Bowling Green. Having received this. Morgan sent a final telegram, thanking Boyle for giving him so much valuable Information and praising him as a very smart boy." Then he signed the message with Ids 'own name I Tiie most spectacular enterprise of tills cavalry leader was Ids raid into Indiana nnd Ohio in the summer of 1S33. a feat of daring nnd skill almost unequnled during the whole course of the war and one which won him even the admiration of Ids enemies. Boldly conceived nnd skillfully executed. It just missed being curried to a triumphant conclusion through no fault of Morgan's but because a swift and unexpected rise of the Ohio river prevented his reaching safety at ttie lust moment. It was his own Idea, carried out In his own way and undertaken In spite of the disapproval of his theoretical superior officer. General Bragg. At that time Morgan was operating in Tennessee where the military situation was far from encouraging for the Confederates. General Buckner was In East Tennessee and General Bragg's army lay around Tullahoma, confronted by General Rose-cran- s with a superior force. Bragg dared not detach any troops to strengthen Buckners Inadequate force, which was essential to holding his part of the state, because General Burnside was preparing an army of 30,000 men in Kentucky to move against Buckner. So Bragg decided to retreat across the Tennessee river and In order to create a diversion to cover his retreat, he decided upon a cavalry expedition Into Kentucky. Morgan was selected for the Job with orders to go anywhere In Kentucky he wished and capture Louisville If possible. Morgan was willing to make the atempt but did not believe that he could hold out long enough for Bragg to accomplish his withdrawal. He proposed to carry the war into enemy territory by crossing the Ohio river, believing that ttie scare would not only hold Burnside in Kentucky but also reduce the pressure on Buckner and Bragg. But Bragg could not see it that way and gave the cavalry leader orders to confine his operations to Kentucky. Morgan, however, had set hia mind upon handling the expedition In his own way and when on June 11 his division of approximately 1,500 men, divided into three brigades, crossed the Cumberland and started north, his secret destination was Ohio. After a number of skirmishes with Union troops stationed as garrisons of towns along the tine of march, he reached the Ohio at Rragilens-burJuly 7, captured two steamboats, drove off 300 Federal militia and two Federal gunboats, and then crossed the river to Indiana. lie was now in the heart of enemy territory, his little force pur g, UaJ-put- by Wootara Nwipr Colon.) I ill. Western Ntiopox-- i I niun-- t s ttt head l-- UareMl-- M. Id. W foieetoSe Oirl'i. omaieta le. per leu r Co. Iloe tUst. WeaOwfal M ease. Hekae owe ekta a. Pro.ll Mhia.tioewi. it - b-- no 1 . I OaHe. iltwrtr4 I ViSA "A d ! took, babtl of speaking aa If It u i pert, movie and elrrlee. 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