The Battle of Buffington Island (Paperback)

A look at Morgan's Raiders and their dash through Meigs County, Ohio in 1864 and culminating in the Battle of Buffington Island, the only major battle of the Civil War fought in Ohio. Accounts, Notes, Telegrams, Diary Entries, Facts and Pictures. "There were many stragglers from each company who were circling about the valley in a delirium of fright, clinging instinctively, in all their terror, to bolts of calico and holding on to led horses, but changing the direction in which they galloped with every shell which whizzed or burst near them." Col. Basil W. Duke, 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A.