In July 1863, Confederate General John H. Morgan led a force of 2,000 cavalrymen across southern Ohio after entering from Indiana on July 13. Union cavalry chased his men across twenty Ohio counties, and most of Morgan's troops were captured in Meigs County at the Battle of Buffington Island. Morgan escaped with several hundred cavalry, raced northeast while fighting skirmishes along the way, and forded the Muskingum near Rokeby Lock on July 23, 1863. As they moved, the soldiers raided local farms for food and replacement horses, but they were finally captured in Columbiana County on July 26. The raid marked the northern-most point ever reached by Confederate forces, and across southern Ohio frightened residents burned bridges over fordable streams and buried silver and jewelry to hide them from the marauders.