Fur guerrillas killed and several wounded. No loss on our side reported. The guerrillas were commanded by Taylor, a new man on south side of the river.

E. B. BROWN,

Brigadier- General of Volunteers.

Major- General ROSECRANS.

Numbers 2. Report of Major George W. Kelly, Fourth Missouri State Militia Cavalry.

BOONVILLE, September 11, 1864.

Lieutenant Kerr, with detachment Fourth Missouri State Militia, had a skirmish with sixty guerrillas, under Captain Taylor, some five miles northeast of Pisgah yesterday evening, killing 4 and wounding several; our horses being fatigued was all that saved the entire band from being broken.

G. W. KELLY,

Major, &c.

Captain J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant- General.

SEPTEMBER 11, 1864.- Skirmish at Hodge's Plantation, La.

Report of Colonel Hasbrouck Davis, Twelfth Illinois Cavalry.

DONALDSONVILLE, September 13, 1864.

(Received 5.20 p. m.)

Hodge's plantation, on the other side of the river, is in Colonel Logan's command. I have shown him your dispatch. He says the rebels attacked the plantation Sunday and were repulsed with loss of 1 killed and 3 wounded. Some of his men guarded the place last night and will do so again to- night.

H. DAVIS,

Colonel Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, Commanding post.

Major G. B. DRAKE,

Assistant Adjutant- General.

SEPTEMBER 11- 16, 1864.- Operations in Monroe and Ralls Counties, Mo.

Report of Captain John D. Meredith, Thirty- ninth Missouri Infantry.

CAMP KUTZNER, September 17, 1864.

LIEUTENANT: In obedience to Special Orders, Numbers [4], dated Hannibal, Mo., September 11, 1864, from Colonel Ed. A. Kutzner, commanding Thirty- ninth Regiment Infantry, Missouri Volunteers, I left camp at Hannibal about 7 p. m. of the 11th instant with twenty- five men of my company on the hunt for a band of guerrillas who were said to be committing