We now hold these captured horses subject to the order of the United States Government; some of said horses are unfit for any kind of military service. I wish an order from my Government to dispose of the 9 horses in my care to reimburse my men for the expense they have been at during the past eleven months and purchasing such side-arms as we can after mounting men who have no horses.

If this meets with the favor of my Government address me at Litchfield, Ky.

Yours, with due respect,

W. E. WORTHAM,

Captain, Rock Creek Home Guards.

P. S.-Not being acquainted with the military law it may be that I am not addressing the proper authority. If so, you will please lay this before the proper authority.

Your obedient servant,

W. E. WORTHAM.

Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

AUGUST 18, 1862.-Surrender of Clarksville, Tenn.

REPORTS, ETC.

Numbers 1.-Major General U. S. Grant, U. S. Army.

Numbers 2.-Colonel Rodney Mason, Seventy-first Ohio Infantry, with War Department General Orders, Numbers 115, of 1862

Numbers 3.-Lieutenant Colonel George W. Andrews, Seventy-first Ohio Infantry.

Numbers 4.-Statement of Company Officers of the Seventy-first Ohio Infantry, with War Department General Orders, Nos. 120, 133, of 1862.

Numbers 5.-Major William H. Sidell, Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, Acting

Assistant Adjutant-General.

Numbers 1.

Report of Major General U. S. Grant, U. S. Army.

CORINTH, MISS., August 22, 1862.

Colonel Mason, with a portion of the Seventy-first Ohio, surrendered Clarksville to guerrillas. Prisoners were paroled and sent down the river. I ordered them to Benton Barracks. I have put Forts Donelson and Henry under command of Colonel Lowe, and have ordered six companies of infantry up to re-enforce him.

U. S. GRANT,

Major-General.

General H. W. HALLECK, Washington, D. C.

Numbers 2.

Reports of Colonel Rodney Mason, Seventy-first Ohio Infantry, with War Department General Orders, Numbers 115, of 1862.

PADUCAH, August 20, 1862.

(Received August 21, 1862.)

GENERAL: I report my detachment, being the garrison at Clarks-