useless, owing to the superior number of the enemy. He immediately ordered a retreat, and after retreating about 1 mile found that the enemy were charging on our rear guard. We then halted and again formed a line of battle, with the men dismounted. We held our fire until the enemy advanced within about 50 yards, when poured in a volley which scattered them in all directions.

We now fell back to a ravine and awaited their coming; they soon advanced, and met with the same result as before. We were about to charge upon them when to our right a heavy column of rebel cavalry dashed forward and was about to cut us off from the river. General Johnson, seeing them, hoisted a white flag and proposed to surrender his whole force. Seeing that to stand now would be useless, I, with part of my command and parts of the Second Indiana and Fifth Kentucky, numbering in all about 200 men, dashed forward through their lines and made good our escape; the balance of our force, consisting of parts of the three commands, broke to the left and crossed the Cumberland River about 4 miles to the east of the town of Lebanon. We arrived in Nashville about 2 o'clock next morning.

The force of the enemy I estimate at about from 1,400 to 1,500 of Morgan's cavalry and about 1,000 armed citizens.

The following is a list of the killed, wounded, and missing of the three different commands, as near as can be ascertained:

Of my command-

Commissioned officers killed, 1 (Adjt. N. Wynkoop); commissioned officers wounded 2 (Captain Levi Chilson and Lieutenant Joseph Vale). Noncommissioned officers and privates killed, 8; missing, 43.

Of the Second Indiana Cavalry-

Commissioned officers wounded, 2; missing, 1. Non-commissioned officers and privates killed, 12; wounded, 40; missing, 31.

Of the Fifth Kentucky Cavalry-

Commissioned officers wounded, 3. Non-commissioned officers and privates missing, 101.

Total killed, wounded, and missing, 244.

The report of killed may not be correct, as many of the missing may have been killed. All the officers and men of my command fought with great courage and coolness during the engagement, promptly obeying all commands.

Great credit is due Captain Chilson and Lieutenant Raplee, of the Fourth Kentucky, as well as their men, for courage shown throughout the engagement.

My report would have been handed in much sooner had it not been for my illness since my arrival here.

I am, sir, with high respect, your most obedient servant,

GEO. C. WYNKOOP,

Colonel Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry.

Colonel J. B. FRY, Assistant Adjutant-General.

Numbers 6.

Reports of Colonel John H. Morgan, Second Kentucky Cavalry (Confederate), including proclamation.

HEADQUARTERS MORGAN'S BRIGADE,
Gallatin, Tenn., August 22, 1862.

GENERAL: I have the honor to report that having received information while at Hartsville that a force of 300 Federal infantry had arrived in