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Sergeant T. Scott wounded in thigh. The enemy’s loss was ten killed and some mlt;iIIT OB TEN UtKXED TO DEATHin the houses. All the Yankees were, shot in the liVad, that being the only portion of their ]ersons they would expose. I occupied the town about six hours, when my scouts reported a large l'orec advancing from Winchester, when I immediately moved in the direction of Owingsvillc.’’Kunkle’a command, having marched rapidly 100 miles, and the Tenth Kentucky cavalry l.-id miles, were unable to follow thefreshly-mounted confederates. Major Brown, however, with a small force, followed as faias Ticktown. recapturing a few Governmenthorses and taking a few prisoners. On the afternoon of the 2Gth, Colonel Knnkle having learned that Cluke h id taken a strong position on Slate Creek, thirteen miles from Mount Sterling, moved at once upon him. Major Williams, with 250 of the Fourteenth Kentucky cavalry and one howitzer, was sent to the right to ford the creek and attack (’hike’s left llank while he assaulted with the remainder of his force in front. Col one1 Cluke immediately withdrew iu the direction of Owingsvillc ar,d Kunkle returned to Mount Sterling. Here he received an order from General Gilmore to move towards liex-ington in consequence of the reports from Big Hill and the. Iliglilof I.ieutenant-Colonel Minor from Hichmond. Bnnkle. discrcdit-ing the genuine iessofnn order that directed him to turn his back upon the enemy, marched to Baris instead. Hereon the ■J-th lie received an order 1o march again upon Mt. Sterling. Cluke had, in the meantime, returned to that place, where he was busilj engaged in providing clothing and subsistence for his men. Kuiikle uioved at midnight on the 31st. arriv-ng at Winchester on the following morning. Here lie waiter one day to obtain much-needed rest for Iih men, and on the 2d of March advance i upon Mt. Sterling, (.’lake evacuated t! ■ town on hearing of Kunkle’s approach an took jn'tsition, as before, on Slate Ciccfc, from which a few shells sulliced to dislod i him, when lie retreated to Hazel Gree:., where Humphrey Marshall was expected, on his way from Abingdon, Virginia, throug i Bound (tap to Kentucky. Cluke encamp* 1 at Hazel Green, where nearly his emi. : command was soonSTRICKEN' DOWN WITH EKYSIPET.AS.On the 19th, when his elnctive s*rer:: \ was diminished to 300 men, lie found 1.1 -self menaced by a force rent rip the I’i; Sandy from Louisa, while another force w advancing from Broctor on his left.Tennessee infantry, Colonel Carter, and the Eighteenth Michigan, Colonel Doolittle, were acting as guard to th*- train which iuoved rapidly over the smooth turnpike road towards Camp Dick Kobinson.HEADING HIS MEN IN A DASHING CIIAtlGE|Lieutenant-Coloncl Adams was cut off and with four of his men captured, but sub r-qnently escaped. Thirty more oi* the First | Kentucky were c aptured that niglit on picket, but were recaptured, together with an equal number of lVgrams men, by Captain Kooue. j of the same regiment. I’egram learning, from an intercepted dispatch from Colonel Kunkle to General Carter, that the former would arrive with his command at Lancaster that night, and would try and join the latter on the main Lexington road, determined to prevent the junction by moving forward to Camp 1 iek Uubim-on; but sixty miles of hard marching and a skirmish in twenty-eh ht hours had used up his men and horses,and he was obliged togo into camp. lt;General Pegram, learning from th© citizens that Gilmore regarded his force as the advance of a heavy infantry column, and having in view theclearing of the three counties, Liueolu, ikjyie,and Garrard, oi all the cattle that could be collected, he moved upon what he terms in his report“tiii: oinnALTKit at mrKMAv nmixjf,held by a force greatly superior to my own.” On the he commenced falling back,driving before him an immense herd of cattle, and halting on the morning of the both within three miles of Somerset, took up a strong position to resist Gilmore's advance untiJ iie could get his cattle safely across the Cumlierland. As pillage was the solo ohject of the expedition, it had thus far succeeded equal to his most sanguine expectations. Tuercportsimlustricuslv circulated byOIrke and his men to the effect that a f »rmid able invasion of the State was contemplated 1 v Gemm! JJragg, who pi opus ed to repeat the tactics of the previous summer, created the impression that Pegrain's cavalry formed ti e advance of a lar^e army, in answer to a telegram from Gmcrd Gilmore, requesting permission to leave his he viquaiters at Lexington and take the lic !«l in comtiiand of the.forces in front. General Lurnsiiln directedhim on the x'Ttlj to move Carters force across the Kentucky Klveraadattac h rirn \:sv :v vio'cmorst v.Hoyle wa * ordered to cone* at rate a force at Lebanon to co-operate with lt;dmore, (Y!-onei Walker, with the Tenth Kentucky cavalry end several det-iclunen ■* of mnmlcd infantry, was ordered ti attack Cuke and• r-•I* *• t
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Sat, Jul 15, 1882
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