Litchfield Enquirer

Some of the rebel prisoners confined in Camp Morton, Indiana, attempted to take advantage of a thunderstorm a few evenings since to make their escape. About twenty-five of them raised the fence posts in the northeast corner of the camp, near the road, by means of levers under the fence boards and then rushed violently in a body, against the fence, causing two or three panels to fall to the ground. Through the door thus made they stampeded and to their heels.

The guard was instantly alarmed and the long roll beat. Nearly every man in camp that could be spared from duty joined in the pursuit. Col. Rose, the Commandant of the post, ordered a portion of the troops take to the left of the turnpike, and another to the right of the road. A force was placed in the centre, and in this way the prisoners were almost surrounded. The result was that thirteen of the twenty-five were retaken of whom two were wounded. The others escaped, but it is thought that they will be recaptured. The names of the wounded are James A. Cash, Sergeant of Company E, Twenty-sixth Tennessee, who received a severe buckshot wound in the leg, and David M. Bagley, of Company K, Second Kentucky. Bagley's wound was from a Minnie ball, producing a fracture of the thigh bone of a serious nature.