AUGUST 30-SEPTEMBER 2, 1864.-Expedition to Natchez Bayou, La., with skirmish (September 1) near Gentilly's Plantation.

REPORTS.

No. 1.-Brigadier General Robert A. Cameron, U. S. Army, commanding District

of La Fourche.

No. 2.-Captain Aaron McFeely, Sixteenth Indiana Infantry.

No. 1. Reports of Brigadier General Robert A. Cameron, U. S. Army, commanding District of La Fourche.

THIBODEAUX, September 2, 1864.

(Received 12.10 p.m.)

A scouting party of two commissioned officers and thirty-five enlisted men left here on the 30th. Colonel Davis telegraphs me from Napoleonville that six of them came in, reporting the rest captured last evening near Gentilly's plantation, near Bay Natchez, which is below and this side of Lake Natchez. He says he sent a force after the rebels at 2 p.m. (he must mean 2 a.m.), who are driving the rebels.

R. A. CAMERON,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

Major GEORGE B. DRAKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

THIBODEAUX, September 2, 1864.

(Received 8 p.m.)

Fifteen of the party of the Sixteenth Indiana surprised at Gentilly's plantation are reported safe.

R. A. CAMERON,

Brigadier-General.

Major CHRISTENSEN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

THIBODEAUX, September 3, 1864.

(Received 12 m.)

Captain Steele, of the Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, pursued the party of guerrillas who surprised the Sixteenth Indiana scouts, driving them across Lake Natchez Bay. He returned to-day, reporting that he had wounded 2 rebels and suffered no loss.

R. A. CAMDEN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

Major G. B. DRAKE.

No. 2. Reports of Captain Aaron McFeely, Sixteenth Indiana Infantry.

HDQRS. CO. G, 16TH INDIANA VOL. MOUNTED INFANTRY,
Near Thibodeaux, September 11, 1864.

SIR: I have the honor to make the following report:

On the 31st of August, 1864, I was furnished with a detail of thirty-five men and one lieutenant, and was ordered to report at post headquarters