Maitland, James M. (1815-1864) to Joseph M. Maitland
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03523.10.085 Author/Creator: Maitland, James M. (1815-1864) Place Written: Kingston, Ohio Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 26 July 1863 Pagination: 2 p. ; 31 x 19 cm. Order a Copy
Updates his son with news of Morgan's Raid: "The Morgan Raid has been the absorbing topic for the last two weeks and strong efforts have been made to capture him. Thus far about 3,000 of his men have been captured, and sent to different places for confinement: the news yesterday that he with about 1,000 of his men had made their escape 12 miles below Wheeling. The most of his men were captured on an Island called Buffington's in the Ohio River... among the officers captured was Basil Duke and two of Morgan's Brothers." Notes that he was mistaken in predicting that the draft in Ohio would begin the following week. It will be postponed until David Tod, Governor of Ohio, receives orders from Washington as to the exact number of men Ohio is required to raise. Writes, "I am in hopes if the Conscription Law is put in force soon to fill up the Old Regiments and Charlestown taken that the Rebs will begin to see that all their efforts [illegible] useless." Comments on discontent in North Carolina regarding the way Jefferson Davis is handling affairs. Also remarks that the Raleigh Standard, a newspaper he calls Governor Zebulon Vance's "organ," is in favor of "a reconstruction of the Union."
Joseph Maitland enlisted on 8 August 1862 as a private. He was mustered into "G" Co. OH 95th Infantry. He was mustered out 31 May 1865 at Memphis, Tennessee.
During his July 1863 raid through Ohio and Indiana, Confederate General John H. Morgan captured supplies and soldiers, disrupted railroads, and destroyed bridges. Symbolically, Morgan's Raid was terrifying to many who feared Southern invasion of Union soil.
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