detachments on the pikes leading to Cumberland and Tompkinsville and other points. They returned without having made any discoveries. It is rumored that General Price is at Hopkinsville with his forces. I am getting my column in motion for Prewitt's Knob.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

LEWIS ZAHM,

Second Cavalry Brigade.

Col. J. B. FRY.

I also captured a mail, which I send with this.

SEPTEMBER 25, 1862.-Skirmish near Snow's Pond, Ky.

Report of Brig. Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore, U. S. Army.

HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES FORCES, Snow's Pond, Lexington Pike, Ky., September 25, 1862.

SIR: Your two letters of to-day are received.

I have to report an attack on my lines this morning at 11 o'clock by over 500 rebel cavalry, with one field piece. They made a sudden dash on the pickets from the direction of California, capturing several small posts. Fifty men are missing, but I am in hopes that some of them will make their appearance. They disappeared [as suddenly as they came up] toward Crittenden. I learned their number from parties who met them on the Crittenden road. It is doubtless the identical party that I have heard of before, numbering 508.

I am gratified that more cavalry are coming, and I wish they were here now. It is next to impossible to resist these sudden dashes with infantry, and my pickets will be in constant danger of being driven in unless I have enough mounted force to scour the country for miles around.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Q. A. GILLMORE,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

Brig. Gen. A. J. SMITH,

Commanding U. S. Forces near Covington, Ky.

SEPTEMBER 27-28, 1862.-Skirmishes at Augusta [27th] and Brookville [28th], Ky.

REPORTS.

No. 1.-Lieut. Col. H. Blair Wilson, Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry.

No. 2.-Capt. A. D. Wilson, master of gunboat Allen Collyer, of skirmish at Augusta.

No. 3.-Joseph Doniphan, of skirmish at Augusta.

No. 1.

Report of Lieut. Col. H. Blair Wilson, Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry.

HDQRS. U. S. FORCES, Maysville, Ky., Sept.29, 1862.

SIR: About dusk on the evening of the 27th instant a special messenger brought me the intelligence from Ripley that Col. Basil W.