minutes under cover of a house, when 23 of them retired, leaving 5 men and 5 horses on the ground; how many wounded were carried off I cannot tell. I counted cartridges, an saw I could not stand another forty minutes' attack, and at night fell back here.

We had only 1 wounded and he very badly. I send you the prisoner we took in hopes you can get some information from him. He tells me they have eighty pieces of artillery; also tells me that he can't understand why they are retreating.

Respectfully,

G. W. BERRY,

Commanding Home Guard.

General LEW. WALLACE.

SEPTEMBER 17-OCTOBER 3, 1862.-Evacuation of Cumberland Gap, Tenn., and march of its garrison to Greenupsburg, Ky.

REPORTS, ETC.

No. 1.- Major General Horatio G. Wright, U. S. Army,commanding Department of the Ohio.

No. 2.- Brigadier General George W. Morgan, U. S. Army, including operations August 16-October 3.

No. 3.- Major General John P. McCown, C. S. Army, commanding Department of East Tennessee, of the evacuation of Cumberland Gap.

No. 1.

Report of Major General Horatio G. Wright, U. S. Army, commanding Department of the Ohio.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 15, 1862.

GENERAL: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the report of Brigadier General George W. Morgan, dated the 12th instant, detailing the circumstances occasioning the withdrawal of his command from Cumberland Gap:

It appears from this report that the evacuation, which was in pursuance of the unanimous opinion of a council of the general officers of the command, was a matter of necessity, arising from their provisions being exhausted, their communications cut off, and no information of any prospect of relief being received. While the evacuation of the Gap is to be regretted, I do not see how, with starvation staring him in the face and with no certainty of relief being afforded, he could have come to any conclusion than the one arrived at. The several communications which I had addressed to him appear not to have reached him. After the unfortunate near Richmond the entire country between the Ohio River and Cumberland Gap was in possession of the rebels, and communications could be sent only through the agency of individuals familiar with the country, and who of course ran great risk of capture. Several persons were found to undertake the mission, but none seem to have succeeded in getting through. The march of General Morgan from Cumberland Gap to the Ohio River was most successfully accomplished and reflects much credit on him and his officers for the skill with which it was conducted, and upon the men for the