I will send First Tennessee, Colonel Gillem, one section Bush's battery and two companies cavalry to Lebanon, Tenn., to-day. Have there now four companies infantry and two companies cavalry. Some forces may go over from Murfreesborough also.

We will move northeast from Lebanon above Sparta to take or scatter Starnes, who is in that region with from 500 to 1,000 men, and to intercept retreating rebels from Kentucky.

JNumbers F. MILLER,

Colonel, Commanding Post.

Colonel J. B. FRY.

Numbers 3.

Report of Colonel Sanders D. Bruce, Twentieth Kentucky Infantry, of capture of Tompkinsville.

BOWLING GREEN, KY., July 10, 1862.

Send more force and some artillery, if they can be spared. One thousand five hundred rebel cavalry and two pieces of artillery attacked Major Jordan at Tompkinsville and killed or captured hi three companies. Confirmed by Judge Graham, from Tompkinsville. We are after them. Show this to Governor Johnson.

S. D. BRUCE,

Colonel, Commanding.

OLIVER D. GREENE, Assistant Adjutant-General.

Numbers 4.

Report of Major Thomas J. Jordan, Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry, of the capture of Tompkinsville.

LOUISVILLE, KY., December 29, 1862.

SIR: On July 6 I was in command of the post at Tompkinsville, Ky., having with me Companies C, I, and M of the Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry. During that day I was informed that a large body of the enemy were collecting at Salina, a little village on the south side of the Cumberland River, some 20 miles from me. About the same time i learned that Company E, of my regiment, was at Glasgow, Ky., 27 miles north of me. I at once ordered that company to join me, which it did about noon on the 7th, thus making my command about 230 effective men. With this force I determined to attack Salina, and, if possible, capture or disperse the forces of the enemy at that point before they could be fully concentrated.

At 8 o'clock on that night I moved from my camp with my whole command, leaving only a detachment of Company to guard my tents and stores. I succeeded in crossing the Cumberland at a point 12 miles north of Salina, and at daylight on the morning of the 8th entered the place, but I was disappointed in not finding the enemy. I made every inquiry probable from the inhabitants, but all denied any knowledge of forces being either there or in the neighborhood. Thinking that I had been misled, but far from being satisfied, I marched back to my camp, at which I arrived about 8 o'clock in the evening. I at once ordered the usual pickets to be posted on all the roads leading to my