artillery are within 3 miles of where this force was taken. They have some 25,000 or 30,000 bushels of wheat at mills in that vicinity, being ground for the use of the army, and I suppose the enemy's force is left there for the purpose of protecting this.

Citizens of the neighborhood say there is one brigade of infantry and one of cavalry and three pieces of artillery between New Haven and Bardstown. Their object in concentrating this force seems to be to protect these mills.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

EDWARD M. McCOOK,

Colonel, Commanding Brigade.

Colonel KENNETT.

No. 3.

Findings of General Court-Martial in case of Col. Martin J. Crawford, Third Georgia Cavalry.

GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT NO.2, Murfreesborough, Tenn., 26, 1862.

I. At a general court-martial, convened at Murfreesborough, Tenn., December 15, 1862, in pursuance of Special Orders, No. 60, from these headquarters, and of which Maj. Gen. J. M. Withers, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, is president, was arraigned and tried Col. M. J. Crawford, Third Georgia Cavalry, on the following charge and specifications:

CHARGE-Conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline.

Specification 1.-In this, that he, Martin J. Crawford, colonel Third Georgia Cavalry, being in command of a portion of his regiment at New Haven, Ky., did allow the enemy to surprise and capture his command.

This at New Haven, Ky., on or about September 29.

Specification 2.-In this, that he, the said Martin J. Crawford, colonel Third Georgia Cavalry, being in command of a portion of his regiment at New Haven, Ky., did surrender his command to the enemy without offering them any resistance whatever. This at New Haven, Ky., on or about September 29.

To which charge and specifications the accused pleaded as follows:

To 1st specification, not guilty.

To 2d specification, the accused admitted that he surrendered his command to the enemy without offering them any resistance, but denied that there was any criminal or improper conduct on his part in so acting.

To the charge, not guilty.

FINDING AND SENTENCE.

The court, after mature deliberation on the evidence adduced, finds the accused as follows:

Of the 1st specification to charge, guilty.

Of the 2d specification to charge, not guilty.

Of the charge, guilty.

The court do therefore sentence the said Col. Martin J. Crawford, Third Georgia Cavalry, to three months' suspension from rank and pay and to be reprimanded in orders by the general commanding.