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Taken by Union Taken by Morgan's

County. troops. men.

Hocking i8 38

Jackson 64 190

Jefferson 66 68

Meigs 86 265

Morgan 20 32

Muskingum 29 40

Noble 14 15

Perry 9 54

Pike 60 80

Ross 3

Sciota 6 3

Vinton 29 116

Warren i i

Washington 34 2

Total 1,308 2,261

Morgan entered Ohio with about 1,800 men, so it seems that they did not average much over one remount to the man while in that State. The tabulation shows that Morgan's Union pur- suers had a very pretty knack of their own in the matter of appropriating horse-flesh. And it must be remembered that these 1,308 horses here shown as taken by Union troops were never returned to their owners, who were paid for them by the State of Ohio, while the Union troops who "pressed" them, kept them.

Large numbers of Ohio horses captured from IMorgan at Buffington Island and in succeeding fights were not returned to their owners, but were kept by their captors, and their owners were paid for them by the State of Ohio under the head of "Rebel damages." Deducting also this considerable item from the sum total of "Rebel damages," and it begins to make that $428,168 "look like thirty cents."

The commissioners say in their report: "A separate column has been kept in the claims for damages by rebels of the value