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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1862.
SINGLE COPIES SIX CENTS.
$2 50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
Entered according to Act
of Congress, in the Year
1862, by Harper & Brother:, in
the
Clerk's
Office
of the District Court for the
Southern
District of New York.
THE BANDIT MORGAN.
WE
give
herewith a portrait of the guerrilla and
bandit, JOHN MORGAN,
of Kentucky. This man Was a well-to-do planter in Kentucky when the war broke
out. Having predatory instincts, he
collected together a band of dare-devil vagabonds,
proclaimed himself their captain and commenced
the life of a guerrilla
chief . He has distinguished
himself by burning bridges, tearing up rail- way tracks, robbing supply
trains, and plundering and wasting the few remaining prosperous portions of
Kentucky. Being well aware of the doom which awaits them if caught, he and his
men display the most desperate courage in their encounters with the soldiers and
the home Guards, and thus far none of them have been captured
alive. They have just completed a most successful raid through
Kentucky, stealing their food, clothing, and other necesaries from the people of
whom they claimed to be the friends. John Morgan is said to possess
some of the chivalrous qualities of his namesake and prototype, Morgan, the
Buccaneer of the Caribbean Sea : they will not, however, save him from being hanged if he falls into the hands
of his fellow-citizens in Kentucky. Our
portrait of him
was made by a
prisoner
who was lately several
days in his hands.
"AUNT CHARLOTTE"—OUR OLD
COOK.
WITHIN
our lines at Newbern " Aunt Charlotte," whose portrait we
give
herewith, is
one
of the
institutions. She is an old family cook. When her master and mistress ran away
and deserted her, to join their
fortunes and their fates with that of rebels and traitors, on the
approach of the national forces, and
their premises were assigned by General Burnside as the head-quarters of the Sanitary Commission for his
division, "Aunt Charlotte"
came into the employ of the Sanitary Inspector
for the Department of North Carolina, and
many a sick and wounded soldier front the States of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts has
had reason to bless the culinary accomplishments
of this venerable contraband cook, and to praise the alacrity with which,
in times of their greatest need, she exerted her skill to save them from
suffering.
On one occasion, soon after the battle, when a
steamboat-load of sick and wounded soldiers from the battle-field were
unexpectedly landed in
Newbern, and
found themselves in a bare hall, with no
accommodations for the night, without provisions or any appliances for
cooking, and too late in the evening for any relief from the ordinary
regulation sources—when their able and devoted surgeon—since a martyr to
his professional duties—was almost in despair at the prospect of that night's
responsibility, "our old
cook"
was appealed to, and the. alacrity with which she came to the relief,
and the unbought zeal which she
brought into that night's work
should endear her to all whose sympathies are enlisted for the sick and wounded
soldier.
By the time comfortable beds had been prepared
for their occupation "Aunt
Charlotte" had sent over a warm and bountiful supper for some forty odd
famished and exhausted patients—a supper of
those choice materials which the noble charity of Northern ladies has so
generously supplied the service through the Sanitary Commission, and which the
skill of "our
old cook," on that night of wretchedness, served up to our wan and famished
soldiers with a nicety and a delicacy of flavor
which can only come from an accomplished
cuisine, but which all palates, however unsophisticated,
can appreciate. The poor soldiers were no less surprised than gratified at such
unexpected relief from the sufferings of that wretched day of
AUNT CHARLOTTE.
exposure and hunger. And their expressions of satisfaction, as they quietly
dropped off to sleep after their hunger was appeased and their wants attended
to, would almost have paid the old slave woman for her long life of bondage. The
next morning, and the next night, and a second morning, did this old "colored
lady" add to her ordinary day's
labor the preparation of suitable food for this whole hospital of sick and
wounded soldiers.
"Aunt Charlotte" was horn in
Charleston, South Carolina,
but came many years ago to
Newbern,
and was the slave of one of ifs wealthiest citizens.
She is about sixty-five years old. She has a great deal of character, and
follows a thorough, systematic
routine of life—always at her post—always reliable. She possesses no mean administrative
abilities. She reminds one of an old merchant, (Next
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JOHN MORGAN, THE HIGHWAYMAN
OF KENTUCKY.
SEARCHING FOR REBELS IN A CAVE
IN ALABAMA.—SKETCHED
BY MR. HUBNER,
THIRD OHIO
VOLUNTEERS.— [SEE
PAGE 523]
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