just exactly the way john mosley's command operated. it illustrates threw his pen however subtle john m. porter was in command in this division of cavalry he commanded in tennessee and kentucky. he was not one who followed the customary rules for the use of cavalry. his men fought, dismounted, his men did not carry out the usual scouting operations of cavalry that you would see. war union cavalry commanders like john buford. morgan used his command far as to make lightning like strikes in kentucky to disrupt union support systems and even during the winter months he would send elements of them and how many to do these kinds of things, we will never know. this gives you a glimpse of one of them and how dramatic the operation was. john m. porter after he was released from johnson island came back to butler county. the way he got back was a bizarre routes. they released him. he was exchanged. union forces exchanged him and got union prisoners of war back. he was exchanged in richmond, virginia. the day he got off the boat on the james river