HEADQUARTERS,
Huntsville, July 30, 1862.

Have stockades been built at the bridges as ordered? With such an arrangement 30 or 40 men can protect the road at any point except perhaps bowling Green and Green River, where there ought to be from two to four companies.

D. C. BUELL,

Major-General.

General BOYLE, Louisville.

Numbers 2.

Reports of Colonel John F. Miller, Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry, commanding at Nashville, Tenn.

NASHVILLE, July 9, 1862.

The following dispatch was received this evening from General Boyle:

LOUISVILLE, July 9, 1862.

For companies Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry defeated with great loss this morning at Tompkinsville by Starnes's rebel cavalry, 1,000 strong. Are marching rapidly to Bowling Green. They took no prisoners, but killed without mercy. Can you assist us, and how? Send up a regiment to Bowling Green and send cavalry to cut off retreat of rebels.

Later he says:

The rebels are making a raid in force of 1,500 or 5,000 into Kentucky. Are near Glasgow. Send us one or two regiments to Munfordville to-night by railroad; it is of moment.

I sent the Eleventh Michigan Regiment about midnight up the railroad to his assistance. A courier from Major Ballard at Lebanon has just arrived with dispatches from Lieutenant Vale, commanding detachment of Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, at Alexandria, Tenn., dated this day, reporting upon what he calls reliable information that John Morgan is now at Sparta, with a force of 4,000 men, pressing horses, forage, &c., rapidly preparing for an expedition, either toward Nashville or into Kentucky, the latter being his avowed destination.

Major Ballard has sent out scouts toward Sparta.

JNumbers F. MILLER,

Commanding Post.

Colonel J. B. FRY.

HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,
Nashville, July 12, 1862.

COLONEL: Since my dispatch to you I sent five companies Seventy-fourth Ohio and one section Bush's battery to Bowling Green, having sent the Eleventh Michigan before Morgan menaced Bowling Green and Munfordville.

The following dispatch just received from Bowling Green shows result thus far:

Colonel Moore routed at Lebanon, Ky., yesterday. They are reported retreating toward Greensburg. Colonel Owen cut party of 500 to pieces above Burkesville. Colonel Stoughton and other forces are marching to intercept them at Bear Wallow. Six hundred men under Colonel Moody, with one piece of artillery, have marched dot Scottsville to cut them off there. Rivers rising, which is favorable to us.

S. D. BRUCE,

Colonel, Commanding.

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