sville to Shephardsville within eighteen miles of Louisville,
rendering it impassable for at least two months; the capture of eighteen
hundred and seventy-seven prisoners, including sixty-two commissioned
officers; the destruction of over two million dollars' worth of United
States property, and a large loss to the enemy in killed and wounded. The
loss of my entire command was: killed, 2; wounded, 24; missing, 64."

It seems impossible that so much could be accomplished with so slight a
loss. The number of his killed and wounded shows that the Federals touched
him very gingerly; that they did not force the fighting. In the capture of
the stockades in which he took so many prisoners, Morgan suffered hardly
any loss, as he forced the surrender with his artillery. But the joy which
Morgan and his men felt over the success of the raid was clouded when they
reached Tennessee by the news of the result of the battle of Stone River.
Murfreesboro no longer belonged to the South. Bragg had retreated to his
new line along Duck River.

CHAPTER XII.

A SPY! A SPY!

For nearly six months after the battle of Stone River, the Federal army
made no general advance. General Rosecrans made his headquarters at
Murfreesboro, while Bragg's was at Tullahoma. But these months were not
months of idleness. Almost daily skirmishes took place between the lines,
and there were a number of contests which arose to the dignity of battles.

Morgan's cavalry protected the right of Bragg's army. His headquarters
were nominally at MacMinnville, but it could truly be said they were in
the saddle. Morgan did not stay long in any one place. A number of
expeditions were made against him, sometimes with a whole division, but he
managed to elude them with slight loss.

Only twice during all this time did severe reverse overtake him--once at
Milton, when he failed in his efforts to capture a brigade of infantry,
and again at Snow Hill, when he was charged by a whole division of cavalry
under the leadership of General David Stanley.

His captures of scouting and forage parties were numerous during these
months, and he added a long list of prisoners to those he had already
captured. But so strongly was every place held, and so numerous had become
the Federal cavalry, it was impossible to make any large capture. The
enemy had learned by bitter experience, that eternal vigilance was their