flour, camp equipage, and clothing, and several sick and wounded, with a note, asking them to give them proper attention. The whole road for twenty miles was strewn with baggage thrown from wagons, to hasten their retreat. The rebel army went within three miles of Beverly, and there met the rebels flying from Rich Mountain, and finding escape to Huttonsville impossible, they all united and returned toward Laurel Hill, taking the road in the direction of St. George.

General Morris's division pursued them for a mile or two beyond Leedsville that night, and halted from eleven until three o'clock in the morning, when the advance resumed pursuit, and continued it all day, in spite of the incessant rain. The rebel army left the turnpike, struck Cheat River, and pursued the mountain road down the valley. Our advance, composed of the Fourteenth Ohio, and Seventh and Ninth Indiana regiments, pushed on, being guided through the mountain gullies by the tents, camp furniture, provisions, and knapsacks thrown from the rebel wagons.

After a terrible forced march through the rain and mud over Laurel Hill, our advance came upon the enemy at Carrack's Ford, eight miles south of St. George, where they again made a stand, and a sharp conflict ensued. The rebels drew up in line of battle, and with a simultaneous cheer for " Jeff. Davis" by the whole command, opened upon the Federals, pouring a raking volley on the right of their advance column, the Ohio Fourteenth, which returned a hot fire, lasting twenty minutes. Dumont's Indiana Seventh made a charge upon. their battery, when they broke and run, crossing the ford toward St. George, leaving many of their wagons. which had become stalled in, the river, which was naturally deep, and, at this time, rendered deeper than usual by the heavy rains.

At this moment General Garnett, in attempting to

rally his retreating forces, was shot dead, by almost the last fire of the Federals. He fell, and by his side a sleek, smooth-faced young Georgian, in the agonies of death, lay weltering in his blood. The Seventh Indiana pursued the flying Confederates about two miles, when they gave up the chase, and the rebels reached Monterey, and formed a junction with General Jackson.

The Confederate loss in the three battles, Laurel Hill, Rich Mountain, and Carrack's Ford, was about two hundred killed, a large number wounded, and five hundred taken prisoners; beside which, it was a serious disaster to the South, as it involved the surrender of an important portion of Northwestern Virginia.

The Federal loss in killed and wounded was about fifty.

A feeling of deep sympathy was manifested for the unfortunate General Garnett. As he fell, Major Gordon went over to him, and finding that life was extinct closed his eyes, straightened his limbs, and placed a guard over the body, which was subsequently laid out and prepared for burial. Major Love assisted in the sad rites, seeming to forget that they met as foes in mortal combat, and now remembering only the years gone by, when they were room-mates at West Point. Major Love had ever cherished feelings of the warmest friendship for Major Garnett until he left the army of the United States to become general of the Confederate forces.

The body, under escort, together with his watch, sword, hand glass, and other personal property, was sent to his family.

The battle-ground presented a scene which is beyond our powers of description. The terrible realities of war, with all its attendant horrors- mangled limbs and bleeding forms. There lay, side by side, the impulsive, beardless youth, and stern manhood, gasping for a firmer hold on life. Some with torn and shattered limbs, some

shot through the head, and brains protruding from the wound; others with eyes blown out; some with jaws shot away, trying to speak, but without the power to articulate. Every imaginable form of wounds and untold suffering, and many were the kind offices performed by the Union soldiers to mitigate the intensity of their sufferings, and many a poor fellow's thirst was allayed by a sip from the canteen of some noble Federal soldiers, who remembered that they were brothers, of one blood, and citizens of one country..

July 11. At night a detachment of three companies of Colonel Woodruff's Second Kentucky regiment at tacked six hundred rebels between Mad River and Barboursville, on the Kanawha River, Western Virginia, completely routing them. Ten or twelve rebels were killed, and a number wounded. The Kentuckians had one killed.

July 16. A train on the North Missouri railroad, conveying a detachment of Colonel Smith's Zouaves, eight hundred in number, passed up the road from St. Louis as far as Millville, thirty miles above St. Charles, where the tracks were torn up, and they could proceed no further, and a sharp skirmish ensued. The troops were fired into from the woods, where the rebels, after tearing up the track, had secreted themselves, laying in wait for the train. The engagement resulted in the death of seven of the rebels, and several taken prisoners. One man, caught with a gun in his hand, was immediately hung, and another, who attempted to escape, was riddled with balls. The Federals lost three killed and 'seven wounded. Thirty horses were captured.

A messenger from Colonel Boernstein, while on his way from Jefferson City, Missouri, to Fulton, with despatches to Colonel McNeil, was arrested by secessionists, who subjected him to a rigid examination, and threatened his life, but, finding no papers about him, and that

he did not know any thing, finally released him. He had swallowed his despatches.

July 17. Occupation of Fairfax Court House. On the afternoon of Tuesday, the 16th of July, the Third Division of the grand corps d'armee, under Colonel Heintzelman, comprising the brigades of Colonels Franklin, Wilcox, and Howard, took up the line of march from Alexandria, with the intention of penetrating the heart of Virginia by way of Fairfax. Fairfax is situated on the Little River turnpike, leading from Alexandria, and is about fourteen miles from that city. It is a seedy old place, of about a thousand inhabitants, who lived in the glorious past of Virginia, with a court house, two or three churches, and some half dozen stores.

The troops proceeded without any difficulty whatever, up the old Fairfax and Polrick roads, ten miles from Alexandria, when they bivouacked at Polrick Creek over night. The next morning the troops were stirring at dawn, the line re-formed, and the troops proceeded on the old Fairfax road in the following order: the First Brigade, under Colonel Franklin, in advance; Second Brigade, under Colonel Wilcox, as the centre; and the Third Brigade, under Colonel Howard, of Maine, commanding.

The march of the troops was broken, at intervals, by a succession of barricades, consisting of large trees, felled and thrown across the road, the first of which was encountered about three miles from Fairfax Court House, but delayed the head of the division only a few minutes. The pioneers set to work and soon cleared the road with their axes. This barricade was erected at the foot of Long Hill, the top of which afforded an excellent covert for sharpshooters.

The second barricade was of a similar character, and was cleared in a similar manner, and occasioned only a few minutes' delay. The third barricade was more for

midable. It was at the entrance of a deep cut in the road, commencing about half way up a steep hill, crowned on one side with a thick wood, and the other by an open field. To pass this, a road was made through the field, enabling the army to march around it. At this point were stationed two hundred rebel cavalry, who fled upon the first appearance of our skirmishers, firing at them one rifle shot, which did no harm. Here it was ascertained that half a mile ahead the rebels had a fortification erected, and a battery planted, which was defended by a force of two thousand men, and that the rebel force in and around Fairfax Court House, guarding the different approaches, amounted to 10,000 or 15,000 men.

The fortification was encountered about half a mile from the court house. It consisted of a simple intrenchment, extending four hundred yards each side of the road, pierced for eight guns, but no guns mounted. The embrasures were formed of sand bags, and so placed as to command the road. The fortification was at the top of a steep hill, at the foot of which was a small, muddy creek. The trees upon the hill-side, for an eighth of a mile, were cut down. This fortification had been occupied for about three weeks by the Second and Third South Carolina regiments, under General Bonham.

In approaching this point our skirmishers had a brush with those of the rebels, in which a corporal of the Rhode Island regiment received a flesh wound in the thigh, and a rebel officer was captured by Captain Dyer. The advance of Burnside's brigade reached the fortification in time to make one prisoner, a South Carolina officer, who surrendered to Major Mission, paymaster of the Second Rhode Island regiment. The inside of the fortification presented abundant evidences of the haste with which it had been abandoned. Sacks of flour, meat, clothing, arms, equipments, and camp utensils