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patched a portilt;lt;rt of tr.e Seventh Ohio cavalry by the a«n* route which the em-tay had taken, to cake fcL* ret rar in fl at direction, to attack him it» the rear, at thc-eame time informing (M. Wuollbrtl of this movement, with orders *oMARK TITK T’.icvr FIliltT UK CorLD until this Kin ■. or nrrivetl. The action was ( soon brought b» a Huccessful conclusion in that part of tin U M, 1'n* the enemy, finding himself attacked in the rear, and knowing from this that wo must have carried the hill, lied in lt;i»iifiu;ion by two roads toward tlie Cumberland Iliver. A rapid pursuit was ordered as noon as the troops for that purpose could be got tosMher, and the enemy was found j»ns*eil behind temporary defenses, • • another rtrong position, almnt three miles south of. Somerset. As night had already set in, and as my effee tive command had been reduced to about ?SM.i men bykilled, wounded and strnsr^lers and de-tachincut'H to guard prisoners, :t was not ilecimd proper to make a night attack. The enemy rc treated during the night and re-crosscd the Cumberland River/*General i artcr. referring to this fight in his personal history, says: “The troops then umier command of General Cdlmore ad-vauct d throu rh Somerset and a short distance out on lie mad to Wait shore, where there was a ferry over the Cumberland Kher,but, iiutlii gTin: I X KM V HAD M \JR AVOTHKt: STAND,General Gilmore recalled the nnin body♦and pass d tin' nigtt at Somerset. Tin-Cumberland Diver was so high from recent rains, that to cross it was impracticable, except. by means of the one ferryboat near WaiHwro. If the infantry liad not been baited byorder of General Cilmnrc they would have reach'd Somerset on the 3lt;» h, in time to have insured the capture of General 1'cgram, his artillery, men. her es, and the major part of the booty lie had gathered in Kentucky. When the forces were ordered forward by General Gilmore 011 the morning of the 31st, they found on reaching the river that General 1’egrnm had employed the afternoon and the night of the 3Wh and early morning of the 31st so well as to place the swolb n »iver bet ween himself and bis ( pursuers ’Peg rain moved out of his position at nightfall and coftraeneed crossing the river at StigalFs Ferry and at Newell's Ferry, three miles below, where he lost some forty horses. He reported his loss in men while on the expedition at *200 killed,wounded and missing. He started fromIJiuiville with Toil !eef-cattle, 537 of which he got safely across the Cumberland, the expense of which to the confederate government was about two and a half bullocks for each man lost in the raid. Gilmores loss from tirst to last was thirty in killed and wounded, nearly all ot which was at Dutton's UilL
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Washington National Tribune
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Sat, Jul 15, 1882
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