measures must be used, and all the citizens in the vicinity where these outrages are committed must be held responsible for them.

It would be injustice to close this report without speaking more particularly of the bravery and gallant conduct of all the officers and men composing the expedition. Without mentioning their names, I would say that all are entitled to great credit for the promptness with which they obeyed and executed all orders given and the energy they evinced in accomplishing the object for which they were sent; and I would particularly mention the names of Major Campbell, commanding the infantry; Lieutenant Chandler, commanding the artillery, and Major Seidel, commanding cavalry; also Captains Spaulding and Allen, of the Fifteenth Kentucky, and Lieutenant Heflebower, of Company G, Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, for their co-operation and valuable services rendered in the expedition.

During the route we destroyed seven boats, viz: one at Law's Landing, three at Guntersville, one at Deposit, and two at Ferrin's Landing; but I was hardly satisfied with our operations at Guntersville. I think that nest of treason and rendezvous of guerrillas and bushwhackers should be entirely destroyed and purified by fire, for as long as it is permitted to remain their facilities for reconstructing their boats and its proximity to the railroad will make it a dangerous place for the safety of our trains and railroad bridges and require it to be closely watched.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

J. W. PARAMORE,

Major, Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Commanding Expedition.

Lieutenant-Colonel MURRAY,

Commanding Third Ohio Cavalry.

JULY 29, 1862.-Skirmish at Russellville, Ky.

Report of Brigadier General Jeremiah T. Boyle, U. S. Army.

LOUISVILLE, July 29, 1862.

COLONEL: Guerrillas infest the Green River counties. Fight in Russellville to-day. Lieutenant Burgher, of Twenty-sixth Kentucky, killed; Captain Morrow badly wounded, and others wounded in the fight. Fifty-fourth Indiana will reach them to-night.*

J. T. BOYLE,

General.

Colonel J. B. FRY.

AUGUST 2-6, 1862.-Operations at Cumberland Gap and skirmish (6th) near Tazewell, Tenn.

Report of Brigadier General George W. Morgan, U. S. Army.

CUMBERLAND GAP, August 7, 1862.

COLONEL: To obtain forage and feel and learn the strength of the enemy, De Courcy was ordered to Tazewell on the 2nd instant. He

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*Some matters of detail omitted from above dispatch.

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