Near dawn on July 24, 1863, Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and his remaining raiders reached Campbell’s Station, now Lore City, where they entered John Fordyce’s home and warehouse at the former railroad station and took nearly $4,000 from the company safe, half of it belonging to Thomas Frame. The raiders then burned the residence, the warehouse, the Leatherwood Creek bridge, and several rail cars filled with tobacco before moving north toward Washington, now called Old Washington, knowing Union cavalry would soon arrive. In the five days since the Battle of Buffington Island, Brigadier General James Shackelford and about 500 Union cavalrymen had steadily reduced the distance to Morgan’s Raiders to seven miles, and when Union forces reached Campbell’s Station at 9:20 a.m. they found the railcars, warehouse, and stores on fire. Though the men and horses were fatigued, Shackelford resolved to continue the pursuit. Effective communication over undamaged telegraph lines and the use of railcars to transport troops were essential to the Union’s eventual capture of Morgan’s Raiders. By late afternoon on July 24, about 375 Union cavalrymen under Major George Rue of Kentucky had arrived by train near Belaire east of there, while more than 1,000 militiamen from Western Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio converged on Steubenville, giving the combined Union forces nearly a three-to-one advantage over Morgan’s Raiders.