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i 111 iu|illroy Marshall, moving caution4-j forward, feeling his way in the gone. ..I direction of the Blue-grass counties, t ward which his aspirations unceasing y tended, reached within forty miles of H-» •! Green w ith 1,(500 cavalry and one mountn . howitzer, Cluko says in his letter: ** 1 (Marshall) lost his artillery the other night. The guard placed over it went to sleep, and some home-guards slipped in and carried off his gun, leaving the carriage and caiss. n. Cupt. Samuel McKee, of the Fourteen’.li Kentucky cavalry, a hrave and zealous oflicer, was captured at this time and sent *o Morgan as a prisouer. lie afterwards represented that congressional district in t.e Congress of the I'uited States.In this emergency Colonel Cluke formed the bold determination toADVANCE AT ONCE ON MT. STKBMXO.A march of sixty miles in twenty-four hours brought him to McIntyre’s Ferry, thirty miles from Mt. Sterling, on the night of the 20th. Crossing the Licking he continued his march and entered the town in two columns from the east and northwest; a slight skirmish, resulting in the loss of two or three on both sides, followed. A hotel used as a hospital by the Fnion troops was, with his ordinary disregard of civilized warfare set on tire, and the sick and nurses were captured. Cl uke remained in the vicinity of Mt. Sterling until the 2t»th, when he retired from the State.On Sunday, tlie22d of March, Itrig.-Cen. John l’egrani, with Icavalry and three pieces of artillery, crossed the Cumlierl.tnd at Stigall’s Ferry, near Somerset. Starting early on Monday morning and marching nil day and night, the command reached Danville at 2 p. m. on Tuesday.General (LImore had at tin* time hut 1.000 men toutli of the Kentucky River, of which only 000 were Uioiui'.ed. There were extensive hospitals and quit, a large ntuouiit of valuable stored at D mviUe to lie protected. iVgram's advance was promptly , telegraph'd by Colonel Wool ford, who held command along the front,and who estim tted the strength of the invading three at 3,.'.tin men. General S. P. Carter was at otp-e dispatched to Danville to remove the stores toa position north of Dick’s River and assume command of all troops in the vicinity. Re-enforcements were forwarded. Gen. Carter removed the stores in a train of 1.50 wagons in safety to the north side of the Kentucky River over llicknmn bridge, where he was joined by Colonel Ijen Ritnkle with GOO mounted infantry. At this moment CIP'lvK WAS KOVIXU Attol'T TlfE COt’N'TBV near Mount Sterling and Humphrey Marshall was near Hazel Green. The best sources of information stated I’egmn's force at 3,.TOO «o 4,000, and to oppose these widely separated antagonists Gilmore had hut 2,dot) mounted men and the same number o. infantry. The roar-guard uf the In ion forces in Danville made a gallant tight in the streets before retiring. The supply trainthoiiz d to lake command of either force, at his discretion.Jrt accordance with the above instructions, Carter was ordered to ad\uuce from Hainan Fridge by way of Far. v1 e r, and Walker moved against theforcesof Cluke cud Humphrey Marshall towards Hazel Green. In advancing from Hickman liridge, the Second Tennessee and L ghteeuth and Twenty-second M diig.in infantry acconip.m.. d Carter's column. On arriving at lh tsville, near Cump Hick Robinson, at which point the ! Danville road di lsmches from ;he Lancasterroad, it was foi.u I that I’ecr.uu had divided1 his force, falling hack on both roads, a part going towards Crab Orchard and the re- , maiudcr towards Stanford. Dick's River bridges on both roads were burned in 1 he rapid retreat before Pegram’s entire force had crossed, and some stragglers were picked , up. Leaving the unautry to follow as fast as possible, c AIITI l: PRESSED ON WITH HIS OAVATItV, about !’!»() strong, on the Crab Orchard road, five miles le-yond I,:inc.a.ster, where, finding the river so much swollen as to render crossing dangerous, he bivouacked his command on the banks And early on the mornitig of the 29.h marched to Crab Orchard, where the rear of Ashby's column was overtaken j and a brisk skirmish ensued, in which Car- ' ter captured a number of prisoners. Gen- | eral Carter followed the retreating enemy seventeen mites on t lie Somerset road, halted at Ruck Creek, and sent out scouts to gain I information as to the movements of Pegratus I four, which was moving on the Stanford aud Somerset road. The wide detour made in following Ashby from Lancaster via Crab Orchaul toSianbiul had enabled Pegrtm to gain the r .ad leading from the Litter print to Somerset several hours in advance of bis piir.-imrs. Carter had pushed on with a comparatively in-: nif.eunt force, under the | sappos'.tiou that tbo three inf.uitry rc.i-meuts were not far in his rear, General Gilm 're, moving from Lexington with al»ou’4lt;U of the Seventh Ohio cavalry under Colonel Israel G.tnv.rd, and two Rodman guns, passed the infantry and countermanded Carter's order, dir. iug them to halt. Leaving j the Sixteenth Tennessco battalion to watchthe road towards Stanford, l’egram had placed the First Louisiana and First Tennessee regiments, under command of Colonelk-‘Scott, at the junction of the S'anfor.l and Crab Orchard Loads. The First Georgia, dismounted, was posted on the right of the selected position, Major Slccles’s battalion of Morgan's cavalry in the centre, and the .Second Ten nesses on the left. His three pieces of artillery occupied a commanding position.THE MOVEMENT l.KOAV l VIil.Von the morning of the 39th. Soon -after crossing Ruck’s Creek Carter came up with Ashby's cavalry and Steele’s battalion, and a running light began and was kept up for several miles, when, within two miles of Somerset, the confederate force was discovered occupying a strong position ou Dutton's
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