On our celebrated raid into Kentucky during the Christmas holidays
of 1862 we captured at Muldraugh’s Hill an Indiana regiment of about
eight hundred men, who were recruited principally in Putnam County,
many of whom were my old friends and acquaintances. I saw and conversed
with a number of them while prisoners in our charge, and had my
fellow-soldiers show them as much kindness as possible under the
circumstances. This regiment had only a few months before been taken
prisoners at Big Hill, Ky., and after being exchanged were armed with
new Enfield rifles, all of which fell into our boys’ hands and took the
place of arms much inferior.
That was my first acquaintance with the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad. We burned all the trestles on Muldraugh’s Hill, and thus cut
the connections of the Federal army in Tennessee.