but have no means of escape. They are hemmed in by the Home Guards and Federal troops. I have now captured all the trains on both roads to the Gap, and do not see how I can subsist many days longer without going down into the blue grass region, and this I cannot do without being sustained by infantry. The troops in this State are all raw recruits, and could be scattered to the winds by one-third their number if the move is made at once. My men are very much fatigued and my horses broken down. I would like to have a few days' rest, unless the necessities of the service demand my immediate assistance. I will be on the road (the London and Richmond) between this point and Rock-casttle River until I receive orders.

Very respectfully,

J. S. SCOTT,

Colonel, Commanding.

Colonel J. PEGRAM, Chief of Staff.

AUGUST 27, 1862.-Skirmish at Round Mountain, near Woodbury, Tenn.

Report of Colonel William Grose, Thirty-sixth Indiana Infantry.

MURFREESBOROUGH, TENN., August 30, 1862.

GENERAL: I arrived here this morning at 6 o'clock. The forces under my command had an engagement with General Forrest between 3 and 4 o'clock p.m. on the 27th instant at Round Mountain, 2 1/2 miles from Woodbury. He made the attack upon our rear, and as he supposed upon our train. But instead of my train his heavy force came in contact with the Twenty-third Kentucky, under Colonel Mundy. The enemy was handsomely repulsed, and with a portion of Captain Mendenhall's battery, the right wing of the Thirty-sixth Indiana, and Colonel Mundy's regiment we pursued and drove them over 2 miles, scattering them in every direction.

Our loss is 4 of Twenty-third Kentucky and 1 of Lieutentant-Colonel Cochran's cavalry wounded. The loss of the enemy is much larger.

Your obedient, servant,

WM. GROSE,

Colonel, Commanding Tenth Brigade.

Brigadier General JACOB AMMEN, McMinnsville, Tenn.

AUGUST 27, 1862.-Skirmish at Bridgeport, Ala., and attack on Fort McCook, Battle Creek, Tenn.

REPORTS.

No. 1.-Colonel Leonard A. Harris, Second Ohio Infantry.

No. 2.-Brigadier General Samuel B. Maxey, C. S. Army, with congratulatory orders.

No. 1.

Report of Colonel Leonard A. Harris, Second Ohio Infantry.

SIR: I have the honor to report that on the 21st of August I was directed by Major-General McCook to occupy the fort at the mounth of Battle Creek. On that night I marched into the fort with two regiments of infantry (the Second and Thirty-third Ohio), Edgarton's Ohio battery, and 110 of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry.