Hines' Raid

When they reached the Ohio River, Hines informed his men that they would pose as U.S. troops under General Jeremiah T. Boyle with orders to pursue deserters, called the Indiana Grays.

[1] Once he crossed the Ohio River, Hines' men rode straight to Paoli, Indiana, successfully posing as Union soldiers.

While being served dinner in Paoli, actual Indiana Home Guards entered the town and informed the mayor of the deception.

They then went to French Lick, Indiana where Hines met the local Copperhead leader Doctor William A. Bowles, whose home was a gathering place for the Democratic Party.

The Corydon Weekly Democrat said of the Home Guards, "Our citizens, though unused to actual war, showed the nerve of soldiers".

In Morgan's subsequent raid, on July 9, 1863, after capturing Corydon, he ransomed the citizens, partly because of Hines' treatment earlier that year.