great exposure at Donelson, the Colonel was stricken down with disease, and, in March, 1862, was compelled to quit the service on account of ill health.

In the month of July following, the Colonel was again authorized by the government to raise a regiment of cavalry. In less than three weeks after receiving the authority from the government to raise a regiment, more than twenty companies of volunteers were raised. to join his regiment. The Colonel insisted that the government should permit him to receive all the companies offered, but this was refused, and we think unwisely, by the government.

On the 3d day of September, 1862, and before his regiment the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry-had been mustered into service, Colonel Shackelford led a charge against a piece of artillery, at Geiger's Lake, on the Ohio River. In that charge his left foot was torn to pieces by a slug fired from the cannon. The Colonel was confined to his bed for five weeks with the wound, at the end of which time he took the field, and, being unable to ride on horseback, he went with his regiment in a buggy, and traveled with it for months in this way.

South-western Kentucky was at that time filled with rebels and guerrillas; consequently, the Colonel's regiinent was engaged almost every day in skirmishing and fighting.

In the month of March, 1863, Colonel Shackelford was confirmed, by the United States Senate, as a Brigadier-General, and was placed in command of the South-western part of Kentucky.

On the 27th of June, 1863, General Shackelford received orders to move at once to Glasgow, Kentucky, with his brigade. The order was promptly obeyed.

Morgan was then on the march for Kentucky, and crossed the Cumberland, as we have seen in the last chapter, at Burksville.

General Shackelford was ordered to Columbia, via Edmonton. He arrived with his command at Libb's Bend on the morning of the 5th of July, where he learned that Colonel Moore had repulsed Morgan in his attack upon his works, the day before. On the night of that same day the command reached Campbellsville, at which place the General received informa tion of the gallant defense, but final capture, of Colonel

Hanson and the Twentieth Regiment of Kentucky Infantry, at Lebanon, on that day.

General Shackelford remained at Campbellsville until the following morning, awaiting the arrival of General Hobson's brigade. At Lebanon they met Colonel Wolford and his brigade. Here General Hobson took command of the three brigades; Shackelford commanded his own and Hobson's brigade. Then the pursuit of Morgan commenced in earnest. They pursued him through Indiana and Ohio, and overtook him, on the 19th of July, at Buffington Island, at which place Morgan was completely routed by the advanceguard of Hobson, as we have heretofore stated, assisted by the gun-boats which General Judah had taken with him up the river.

General Shackelford, who had been reinforced by the Eighth and Ninth Michigan Regiments, under command of Colonel Sanders, was approaching the field of action at Buffington on a trot, when he received orders to reverse his column, and take the first road leading up the river, to cut off the retreat of the rebels. Colonel Wolford, whose brigade was in the rear, had also been ordered to take the same road. The column

of Shackelford had just been reversed, and had reached the road, where it met the forces under command of Wolford, when a courier rushed up and reported that the enemy had attacked the rear of his column. Colonel Wolford at once reported to Shackelford for orders. He was ordered to leave two regiments to hold the road, and then follow Shackelford's forces with the rest of his command. Promptly the General reversed his column, and moved rapidly to the place of attack, and formed a line of battle. The Ninth Kentucky Cavalry, Colonel Jacob, was placed on the extreme right; the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, Lieutenant-Colonel Holloway, in the center; and the Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry, Colonel Crittenden, on the extreme left. The Second Tennessee and Forty-third Ohio Mounted Infantry were kept in reserve.

The fight commenced, and continued for some time, when Shackelford ordered a charge to be made upon the rebel lines by the First, Third, and Eighth Regiments of Kentucky Cavalry. With their sabers gleaming in the bright sunlight of that Sabbath morning, and a terrifying yell, those gallant men rushed upon the enemy. The enemy fled at their approach, and Col

onel Dick Morgan and his brigade were made pris

oners.

This engagement occurred at Bashan Church, four miles in the rear of Buffington Island.

After disposing of the prisoners, General Shackelford reversed his column, and moved on the road running parallel with the river road, on which Morgan was making his escape. He marched fifteen miles in about two hours, and succeeded in throwing part of his force in the front of Morgan. Part of the command had been sent in various directions, after squads of rebels that had been scattered by the fight at Bashan Church, so that Shackelford had but about six hundred men with him when he got in Morgan's front. The General, in person, together with Captain Hoffman, his Adjutant-General, and three or four other officers, made a reconnoissance within a short distance of the place where Morgan and about two thousand of his men were halted. He was found in a deep and almost inaccessible ravine,

Shackelford at once reported, to Generals Judah and Hobson, Morgan's position. It was, however, late in the evening, an they did not receive the message in