the two days was to them the dividing line between this world and the world of spirits-the portal of eternity. The Confederates were impaled upon the bayonet, pulled from their horses, knocked over with the butt of the gun or of the pistol, and so bold and impetuous was every movement with the Federals, that they fled in confusion, with the loss of forty killed and eighteen taken prisoners. Union loss, one killed, and six wounded. A captured lieutenant informed the Federal officers that General Pillow was in the neighborhood, and would call upon them in a few days with twenty-thousand men ; that he had promised they should take breakfast in Cairo that morning. The Confederate forces at Charleston and throughout the State of Missouri were composed principally of backwoodsmen, uneducated, but honest and sincere, and had taken up arms against the Government through the misrepresentations of designing men.

August 20. Mayor Berrett, of Washington, was arrested on a charge of disloyalty and sent to Fort Lafayette, New York, but on the twelfth of September was released by taking the oath of allegiance to the Government.

Many other arrests were also made at Washington, and other places in the free States, for disloyalty to the Government, uttering treasonable sentiments, etc., and among them several ladies.

August 26. Skirmish at Summerville. About fifty miles east of Charleston, Va., the central position of the Kanawha Valley, and up the Gauley River about twentyfive miles from Gauley Bridge, is Summerville, the county seat of Nicholas county. Here the Seventh Ohio regiment, under Colonel Tyler, was posted, and here, on the 21st, a slight skirmish took place between a detachment of fourteen men belonging to Company K and a reconnoitring party of the Richmond Blues, in which two of the Federals were killed, five wounded and taken prisoners, and four slightly wounded who made their

escape. Shortly after, Colonel Tyler with his command left Summerville (or, as it is called by some, Cross Lanes, where Tyler was encamped), hastily, in obedience to an order from General Cox, and made a forced march of eighteen miles, joining Cox at the mouth of TwentyMile Creek, six miles above Gauley Bridge. The cause of this sudden movement was the rapid concentration of the enemy under Floyd in the neighborhood of Gauley Bridge, and it seemed necessary to concentrate the National forces in order to oppose them. General Loring, of the Confederates, had been ordered to move with his forces from the Big Spring, in the direction of Huttonsville, around the Cheat Mountain, while General Jackson was to advance toward the Cheat Mountain, and thus block the progress of Rosecrans eastward, while General Floyd, with his brigade, was to make the advance from a point ten miles west of Lewisburgh.

After a hasty consultation between Colonel Tyler and General Cox, it was concluded best that the Seventh Pegiment should return to Cross Lanes, which they did on the twenty-fourth; and on the morning of the twentysixth, while Colonel Tyler and his command were quietly partaking of their breakfast, they were surrounded and attacked on both flanks and in front simultaneously by Floyd's Brigade, consisting of three thousand infantry, four hundred cavalry, and ten guns. The Union men immediately formed for battle, and fought bravely, while they saw but little chance of success. The enemy proving too powerful, Colonel Tyler sent forward to the baggage train, which was coming up three miles distant, and turned it back toward Gauley Bridge, which place it reached in safety. Companies B, C, and I suffered most severely. They, particularly, were in the hottest of the fight, and finally succeeded in cutting their way through and scattered, but soon rallied, and, forming again, fired upon the Confederates, but received no reply