DECEMBER 5, 1864.-Skirmish near Dalton, Ga.

Report of Colonel Joshua B. Culver, Thirteenth Michigan Infantry.

DALTON, December 5, 1864.

A squad of fifty guerrillas attacked water-tank two miles and a half above here at 1 o'clock this morning. The guard, nine men, ran away. Rebels then went to the brigade one mile above and captured the guard, thirty men, cut the wire, and left. The thirty men captured belonged to the command at Tunnel Hill. No damage done the road.

J. B. CULVER,

Colonel Thirteenth Michigan, Commanding.

Captain H. A. FORD,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

DECEMBER 6, 1864.-JANUARY 15, 1865.-Lyon's raid from Paris, Tenn., to Hopkinsville, Ky., &c., with skirmishes.

REPORTS.*

Numbers 1.-Brigadier General Edward M. McCook, U. S. Army, commanding First Cavalry Division.

Numbers 2.-Colonel Oscar H. La Grange, First Wisconsin Cavalry, commanding Second Brigade.

Numbers 3.-Bvt. Brigadier General Louis D. Watkins, Sixth Kentucky Cavalry, commanding Third Brigade.

Numbers 4.-Colonel John K. Faulkner, Seventh Kentucky Cavalry.

Numbers 5.-Colonel William J. Palmer, Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry.

Numbers 6.-Colonel Felix Prince Salm, Sixty-eighth New York Infantry, commanding Reserve Brigade, District of the Etowah.

Numbers 7.-Lieutenant John H. Hull, One hundred and first U. S. Colored Infantry.

Numbers 8.-Brigadier General Hylan B. Lyon, C. S. Army, commanding Department of Western Kentucky.

Numbers 1. Report of Brigadier General Edward M. McCook, U. S. Army, commanding First Cavalry Division.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, CAVALRY CORPS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

Edgefield, Tenn., January 8, 1865.

I received orders at 5 p. m. on 11th of December, 1864, from General Wilson, commanding the corps, to concentrate two brigades of my command at Bowling Green, Ky., for the purpose of checking General Lyon, who was supposed to be advancing on that place in force. After my arrival there I ascertained that Lyon was in the vicinity of Hopkinsville with about 1,500 men, and received telegraphic orders from headquarters to move on him wherever found. I marched with La Grange's brigade to Franklin, were, on the 14th, I met Watkins' brigade, which had moved from Nashville, and on that day marched with both commands to Russellville, from which place I sent back all transportation,

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*See also reports of Thomas, Cruft, Harrison, Mitchell, Malloy, Thompson, Hottenstein, and Wilson, pp. 45, 513, 522, 525, 533, 544, 549, 561, respectively.

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