el alone, who aimed at him a tremendous
blow. This blow Calhoun avoided, and as it met with no resistance, its
force threw the Colonel forward on his saddle. As quick as lightning, the
point of Calhoun's sword reached his heart, and the combat was over.

[Illustration: THE FORCE OF THE BLOW THREW THE COLONEL FORWARD ON HIS
SADDLE.]

During this time Tribble had vanquished his antagonist. The remaining
Federal, seeing one of his comrades dead and the other a prisoner, threw
down his sword and surrendered. The dead officer proved to be Colonel D.
J. Halisy of the Sixth Kentucky cavalry.

This conflict was long remembered as one of the most remarkable ever
engaged in by any of Morgan's men, and Calhoun was warmly congratulated by
the whole command on his prowess.

The death of Colonel Halisy seemed to dampen the enthusiasm of Morgan's
pursuers. Although they followed him to Campbellsville, and from
Campbellsville to Columbia, the pursuit was a feeble one. In fact, so
timid was Colonel Hoskins that he ordered his advance not to engage Morgan
if they found him at Columbia, but to wait for the column from
Hodgensville to come up. From Columbia all pursuit ceased, and Morgan was
left to return to Tennessee at his leisure.

While at Columbia Morgan reports that his men heard distinctly the sound
of distant cannonading away to the southwest. To their accustomed ears it
told of a battle raging. It was the thunder of Rosecrans's cannon at Stone
River. Little did Morgan's men think at that time that that distant
thunder meant that hundreds of their brave brothers were being slaughtered
in that fatal charge of Breckinridge. Murfreesboro is, as the crow flies,
a hundred and eighteen miles from Columbia. In no other battle during the
war is it reported that cannonading was heard so far.

From Columbia Morgan proceeded by easy stages to Smithville, Tennessee,
which he reached January 5, just fourteen days after he had started on his
raid from Alexandria. During this time his command had travelled fully six
hundred miles. This raid was one of the most remarkable Morgan ever made,
when we consider what he accomplished, and the number of troops that tried
in vain to capture him. Riding within a few miles of thousands of men, he
easily eluded all his pursuers and escaped almost scot free.

General Morgan, in summing up the results of this raid, says: "It meant
the destruction of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from
Mumford