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Also  that,  when  Morgan  came  at  other  times,  his  work
of  destruction  was  stopped  by  Kentucky  troops.  His
expressed  purpose  in  1864  to  cut  the  road  from  Cincin-
nati to  Lexington,  and  then  move  on  to  the  Louisville
and  Nashville  road,  was  frustrated  before  he  had  time  to
injure  either.  Others  besides  Morgan,  notably  Generals
Lyon  and  Pegram,  and  many  lesser  raiders,  were
successfully  prevented  from  burning  bridges  and  tearing
up  tracks.  It  will  be  remembered  that  in  1862  Home
Guards  stopped  a  column  of  Morgan's  troops  at  Augusta,
and  by  a  bloody  fight  prevented  the  execution  of  a  plan
to  cross  the  Ohio  and  move  down  upon  Cincinnati;  also,
that  when  Morgan  did  cross  the  Ohio  in  1863  the  Ken-
tucky pursuers  were  so  hard  upon  his  track  that  at  one
time  he  travelled  ninety  miles  in  thirty-five  hours,  and
they  finally  captured  him.
The  city  of  Louisville  was  a  place  of  immense  storage
of  supplies  necessary  for  the  army,  the  destruction  of
which  would  have  been  an  enormous  loss.  Time  and
again  Louisville  was  threatened,  but  never  taken.  The
Kentucky  Unionists  were  conspicuous  in  defending  all
these  interests.  In  defending  their  State  they  were  de-
fending the  National  cause.
