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He was held two months and was·then court martialed as a
spy. He was sent 'to Johnson’s Island under sentence of death.
Friends at Henderson and Morganfield learned of his trouble
and through their influence President Lincoln was induced to
pardon him. Finally, after eighteen months, he was taken with
others to Virginia for an exchange. He reported at Richmond
and then Lynchburg, where he was ordered to report to his ·
command, but before his time was up the army was in full
retreat and he never rejoined it. After some delay he joined
his brother, Dr. Burgess M. Long, and his family, in Union
County.
He resumed the practice of law, but in 1888 he returned to
Virginia and bought a farm in the county of Nottoway, where
he died.
A. R. LYNN (1844-1941), one of Morgan’s Raiders during l
the War between the States, was Union County’s last Con-
federate veteran. For many years untilhis death, a few months
before his ninety-seventh birthday, he was known to hundreds
of Union Countians as "Unc1e Bob" Lynn.
He was born on a farm in this county and led the normal
life of a farmer's son until the outbreak of the war. Imme- °
diately he tried to enlist in one of the three Confederate »_
companies being formed at Sulphur Springs, but was rejected
because of his youth. In August he tried again, exaggerating
his age a little, as he would not be eighteen until October.
This time he was accepted, being enrolled in the Tenth Ken-
tucky Cavalry of the Second Brigade, which was commanded
by Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan. Shortly after his enlistment
the regiment went south, engaging in the Battle of Murfrees-
boro, Tennessee, scouting and fighting almost every day.
Mr. Lynn followed General Morgan on his raid through _
Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, in the summer of 1863, con- A
sidered by many the General's boldest incursion into Northern
territory. It was during this raid that the command marched
from Summanville, Indiana, to Cincinnati, more than ninety
miles, in thirty-five hours. And it was this march that was Mr.
Lynn’s undoing.
The invaders were hotly pursued by Union forces; and their
escape was impeded by swollen fords and streams. ln at-
tempting to cross the Ohio at Buffingtoifs Landing above Cin-
mnnah Mr Lvrm was thi--·vvv· from his horse He m¤4··were·i