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After several more skirmishes, during which he captured and paroled thousands of Union soldiers, Morgan's raid almost ended on July 19, 1863, at Buffington Island, Ohio, when approximately 700 of his men were captured while trying to cross the Ohio River into West Virginia.

Intercepted by Union gunboats, less than 200 of his men succeeded in crossing.

Most of Morgan's men captured that day spent the rest of the war in the infamous Camp Douglas Prisoner of War camp in Chicago, which had a very high death rate.

On July 26, near Salineville, Ohio ( actually closer to New Lisbon-now just called Lisbon ), Morgan and his exhausted, hungry and saddlesore soldiers were finally forced to surrender.