has passed north, via Sparta, to avoid our troops, and thus join Bragg on the other side of the mountains. He also expects to join Morgan soon, who will also join Bragg. Can they not be cut off somewhere northeast of McMinnville? He went toward Short Mountain from here, thence via Sparta. If we had deployed along this road last night it would have been better. We entirely cut off 500 Texas Rangers, who fell back into the woods, and after we left they went on north.

GEO. P. BUELL,

Colonel, Commanding.

General WOOD.

P. S.-I start immediately. The wagons captured at Murfreesborough are at Pikeville, and very little force there-two pieces of artillery and a little cavalry.

AUGUST 30, 1862.-Battle of Richmond, Ky., or engagements at Mount Zion Church, White's Farm, and Richmond.

REPORTS, ETC.

Numbers 1.-Major General Horatio G. Wright, U. S. Army, commanding Department of the Ohio, with instructions to Major General William Nelson.

Numbers 2.-Major General William Nelson, U. S. Army, commanding Army of Kentucky.

Numbers 3.-Return of Casualties in the Union forces.

Numbers 4.-Brigadier General James S. Jackson, U. S. Army, Chief of Cavalry, including operations August 28-30.

Numbers 5.-Brigadier General Mahlon D. Manson, U. S. Army, commanding First Brigade.

Numbers 6.-Lieutenant Colonel John R. Mahan, Fifty-fifth Indiana Infantry.

Numbers 7.-Brigadier General Charles Cruft, U. S. Army, commanding Second Brigade.

Numbers 8.-Lieutenant Luther F. Hale, Battery F, First Michigan Light Artillery.

Numbers 9.-Captain John F. Baird, Sixty-sixth Indiana Infantry.

No. 10.-Captain Jasper N. Rodman, Sixty-sixth Indiana Infantry.

No. 11.-Major Frederick G. Bracht, Eighteenth Kentucky Infantry.

No. 12.-Colonel William L. McMillen, Ninety-fifth Ohio Kentucky.

No. 13.-Lieutenant Thomas P. Jones, Ninety-fifth Ohio Kentucky.

No. 14.-Major Bill Cross, Third Tennessee Infantry (Union).

No. 15.-Major General John P. McCown, C. S. Army, commanding Department of East Tennessee.

No. 16.-Major General E. Kirby Smith, C. S. Army, commanding Army of Kentucky, including operations August 30-September 16, and congratulatory orders.

No. 17.-Colonel John S. Scott, First Louisiana Cavalry, commanding Cavalry Brigade, including operations from August 13- September 11.

No. 18.-Brigadier General Thomas J. Churchill, C. S. Army, commanding Third Division.

No. 19.-Colonel T. H. McCray, Thirty-first Arkansas Infantry, commanding First Brigade.

No. 20.-Colonel Evander McNair, Fourth Arkansas Infantry, commanding Second Brigade.

No. 21.-Brigadier General P. R. Cleburne, C. S. Army, commanding Fourth Division.

No. 22.-Colonel Preston Smith, Provisional Army of the Confederate States and Acting Brigadier-General, commanding First Brigade, Fourth Division.

No. 23.-Colonel Benjamin J. Hill, Thirty-fifth Tennessee Infantry, commanding Second Brigade.