3. Col. Corcoran, Sixty-ninth New York State Militia. 4. Col. Woodruff, Second Kentucky regiment. 5. Col. Wilcox, First Michigan regiment. 6. Col. Wood, Fourteenth New York State Militia, Brooklyn. 1. Capt. Keffer, Co. N, First California regt., Philadelphia. 2. Capt. Bowman, Co. E, Fifteenth regt. Mass. Vol. Preparations are being made to put the selected in the cells of the county prisons. We trust there will be no hanging, and we are all in pretty good spirits. Doc. 148. } AFFAIR AT CLARK'S STATION, MO. CAMP OF THE FIRST KANSAS, TIPTON, MO., November 11. They were placed fairly in a tin or ballot LAST night a band of rebels, armed and box, a cap covering it, and then well shaken. mounted, broke open and plundered the store The drawer appointed by the General was the of a loyal citizen, at Clark's Station, seven miles Hon. Alfred Ely, M. C., of Rochester, N. Y. east of this post. They fled toward the South, It so happened that the said lot fell on Michael taking with them a large amount of valuable Corcoran, colonel of the Sixty-ninth regiment goods. On receiving information of the robNew York State Militia, now at Castle Pinck-bery, Col. Deitzler sent a squad of cavalry in ney, near Charleston, S. C. Then the other five colonels were to stand with others next in rank to them against and in lieu of the other thirteen under trial for piracy, and also to be dealt with accordingly. The officers next in rank, to make up the thirteen, are: Major Potter, Thirty-eighth regiment N. Y. Volunteers. Lieut.-Col. Neff, Second Kentucky Volun teers. Major Revere, Tenth regiment Mass. Volun teers. Lieut.-Col. Bowman, Pennsylvania. Then out from among the captains were drawn three to make up the thirteen, the drawing done by Mr. Ely. It happened that the first three drawn from the box were these: 1. Capt. McQuade, Thirty-eighth regiment, N. Y.-not expected to survive from wounds received at the battle of Manassas. 2. Capt. Rockwood, Fifteenth Mass. 3. Capt. Ricketts, U. S. First Artillery; he still lies in a critical condition since the 2d July in one of the hospitals here. His wife has been his attendant ever since she could get to him. It was emphatically stated that whatever course was taken with those fourteen pirates by our Government, the same course would be followed in dealing with those selected in this way- -so that we wait impatiently to know the fate of our brother officers. I remain yours, most respectfully, JOHN WHYTE, First Lieut. Seventy-Ninth Regt. N. Y. S. M. P. S.-10 A. M. Nov. 12.-Gen. Winder has just come to the prison and called the captains, eleven in number, and balloted two out from them in place of the two whom I have mentioned as not fit to be removed from the hospital to the prison cells. The two drawn happened to be: pursuit, under charge of Lieut. Shriver. Tow- This evening the rest of the party came in with five more of the robbers, their horses and their arms, four Government mules found in their possession, and a large quantity of the plunder, having travelled about thirty miles, and visited many houses scattered over the country through which they passed, in which nearly all the inhabitants are virulent secessionists. They captured all of the gang engaged in the depredation of whom they got sight, except one who, being well mounted, made his escape. Doc. 149. FIGHT AT GAULEY BRIDGE, VA. Ar daylight on the morning of the 10th November, Col. De Villiers crossed the New River, with the first detachment from his regiment, the Eleventh Ohio. The river was swollen and rapid, but in spite of the difficulties which it presented, the colonel had passed over 66 before noon, nearly the whole available force | his order, "Advance one, and give the coununder his command. At 12 o'clock he drove tersign," they hesitated. He repeated the order in the enemy's pickets, planted our flag in their peremptorily, "Advance and give the counterbreast works, and posted guards all along the sign, or I'll blow you through." They answered, ridge overlooking our communications. In without advancing, "Mississippi." "Where driving in the pickets, John Roe, private of do you belong?" he demanded. "To the SecCompany A, pressed forward far in advance of ond Virginia regiment." "Where are you his companions, and received a ball from a Mis- going?" Along the ridge." They then in sissippi rifle through his head, killing him turn questioned him, "Who are you?" That's instantly. It required a long, extended line my own business," he answered, and taking of sentinels to guard the ridge of its whole deliberate aim he shot down his questioner. He length; consequently the posts in each were called for his boys to follow him, and sprung weak and widely separated from their reserve. down a ledge of rock, while a full volley went At eight o'clock in the evening the enemy in over his head. He heard his companions sumfull force made an attack upon these outposts, moned to surrender, and the order given to the driving some of them back over the ridge, while major to advance with the regiment. Several others held their position until the morning. started in pursuit of him. He had to descend Satisfied with this dash, and not waiting the the hill on the side toward the enemy's camp. advance of our reserve, the enemy withdrew to While he eluded his pursuers, he found himself their camp. In the morning, Col. De Villiers, in a new danger. He had gotten within the with a part of his regiment and a detachment enemy's camp pickets! He had, while running, from the Second Kentucky, made a bold move- torn the U. S. from his cartridge box, and ment toward the enemy's camp, exchanging fire covered his belt plate with his cap box, and tore with their outposts and still advancing. A ball the stripe from his pantaloons. He was chalgrazed the colonel's ear, slightly abrading the lenged by their sentinels while making his way skin. The enemy withdrew at his approach,aban- out, and answered, giving the countersign, doning their principal encampment at Cotton "Mississippi," Second Virginia regiment. They Hill. Thus the first aggressive movement was asked him what he was doing there. He said successfully made by the Eleventh Ohio regi- | that the boys had gone off on a scout after the ment, supported in the latter part of the engage- Yankees; that he had been detained in camp, ment by reinforcements from the other two and in trying to find them had got bewildered. regiments of Gen. Cox's brigade, the First and As he passed through, to prevent further quesSecond Kentucky. tioning, he said, “Our boys are up on the ridge, which is the best way up?" They answered, "Bear to the left and you'll find it easier to climb." Soon again his pursuers were after him, as he expresses it, "breaking brush behind him;" this time, with a hound on his trail, he made his way to a brook, and running down the shallow stream, threw the dog off the scent, and as the day was dawning he came suddenly upon four pickets, who brought their arms to a ready, and challenged him. He gave the countersign, Mississippi; claimed to belong to the Second Virginia. His cap box had slipped from his belt plate. They asked him where he got that belt. He told them he had captured it that night from a Yankee. They told him to advance, and as he approached, he recognized their accoutrements and knew he was among his own men, a picket guard from the First Kentucky. He was taken before Col. Enyart and dismissed to his regiment. Such acts ought to be recorded, such men rewarded with promotion. I asked him what his motive was in halting a whole column of the enemy. He said his plan was to give intimation to the reserve of their advance that they might open upon them on their left flank, and so, perhaps, arrest their progress. General Cox took the initiative and fairly and alone drove the enemy from their position, by a bold movement across the river at its widest point, and up precipitous ascents which would have discouraged any less enthusiastic soldiers than those under his command, and these, too, stimulated to heroism by the example and presence of Col. De Villiers. The Eleventh lost eight men in killed and missing, one severely wounded, and ten slightly injured. Robert Bachelor, of Yellow Springs, received two mortal wounds while holding his position against overwhelming odds. Before going into action he said that he had heard so much of the cruelties practised by the enemy upon their prisoners, that he was determined he would never surrender. There were many instances of personal bravery displayed by our men. One deserves prominent record. Sergeant Carter, of Tippecanoe, Ohio, was upon the post first attacked by the enemy. The advance guard of the Second Virginia, consisting of twelve men, came suddenly upon him and his three companions. The bright moonlight revealed the flashing bayonets of the advancing regiment. He was surrounded and separated from his reserve. With great presence of mind he stepped out and challenged, "Halt! Who goes there?" The advance guard, supposing they had come upon a scouting party of their own men, answered, "Friends, with the countersign." At Colonel Benham is preparing to-day to move in pursuit of the retreating force under Floyd. D. B. -Cincinnati Commercial. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. In my last letter I informed you of an early preparation for a general battle, but up to this time nothing of the sort has transpired, although we are momentarily expecting it; and will surely have it, if some unforeseen event does not transpire. If such a thing as a battle takes place, it will be one of extermination on either side. For it will be the great battle for supremacy in the Kanawha Valley. The strength of the Southern forces is variously estimated at from seven to eight thousand, not including cavalry and artillery. Our forces must be at least thirteen thousand. The Southern forces are commanded by Generals Floyd and Henningsen, and are now situated between Cotton Mountain and Fayetteville. General Benham's brigade, some three thousand five hundred strong, are at this point, Gen. Schenck's is at Camp Ewing, near Mountain Cave; Col. McCook's brigade a few miles from them; Gen. Cox is at Gauley, and Gen. Rosecrans at Tompkins' farm. The men are all in good spirits, and anxiously awaiting the coming contest. The truth of the matter is, they are willing to meet double their number, so as to get out of Western Virginia; and if they are foiled in this attempt to capture Floyd, they will feel worse than crazy. They are all now well uniformed, and have plenty to eat. They are neat, clean, and tidy. I don't suppose that a single man is now unequipped in the whole division. Since writing the above, I have learned that the rebels have vamosed from the Fayetteville road, and are now making tall tracks for Lewisburg. Floyd was too "wide awake" to put his head into the trap laid for him. Several of our officers are terribly exasperated at being thus deprived of capturing the arch-thief; and among them all, I saw none more excited than the brave Gen. Benham. He felt almost confident that his brigade alone would be able for Floyd, and to be thus deprived of seeing him excited him considerably. It was surprising to me to see how expeditiously he marched his whole brigade across the Kanawha at night. Not a murmur escaped the lips of a single man -not a sound hardly was heard-all was done in a quiet, easy, and knowing manner. The men have the greatest confidence in him. He is an old soldier, having served twenty-eight years in the regular army; was second in his class, and is now about forty-five years of age. -Cincinnati Times, November 13. Doc. 150. MASSACRE AT GUYANDOTTE, VA. ADJUTANT WHEELER'S REPORT. THE undersigned, acting as Adjutant of the Ninth Virginia regiment, would beg leave respectfully to report, that, on Sunday evening, the 10th Nov., a little after seven o'clock, the said regiment, consisting of only one hundred and fifty men yet in camp, was completely surprised by seven hundred cavalry, under command of Jenkins, the guerilla chief, and cut to pieces or captured, with the loss also of about thirty horses, a small stock of Government stores, and two hundred Enfield rifles. The dead and wounded on either side could not be clearly ascertained, but supposed to be ten or twelve killed, and twenty or thirty wounded. The enemy captured seventy prisoners, and their loss in killed and wounded was equal to, if not greater than ours. They left one of their captains dead in the street. His name was Hubbell, or a name similar in sound. Three other bodies of the enemy were found in the street, and they were seen to throw several from the suspension bridge into the Guyandotte, killed by our men while they were crossing the bridge, besides a wagon load was hauled off in the night. Three of our dead were found-one was known to be shot one mile above town, on the bank of the Ohio River, and four in crossing the Guyandotte River. Several others are missing, and are supposed to be killed. Among the number is Capt. G. W. Bailey, of Portsmouth, who commanded a company in the railroad masked battery affair at Vienna, and also at Bull Run. Among those taken prisoners, are the Hon. K. V. Whaley, who was in command of the place; T. J. Heyslip, Clerk in the Quartermaster's Department; Capt. Paine, of Ohio, who was one of the first three to plant the Stars and Stripes on the walls of Monterey, in Mexico; and Capt. Ross, of Ironton, an intelligent Scotchman. Captain Thomas, of Higginsport, Ohio, is supposed to be taken; and also Dr. Morris, of Ironton, the first Surgeon. The rebels also arrested and took with them the following Union citizens, after having first taken and destroyed their goods: Wm. Dowthit, merchant, and his son; Dr. Rouse, druggist, who was also a Commissioner of the Federal Court; Albert White, and perhaps some others. At Barboursville they captured John W. Alford, candidate for the Legislature; Matthew Thompson and all his goods; old Mr. Kyle and Morey. These prisoners were lashed together and compelled to walk. Among their other cruelties, I will mention one incident: James E. Wood, a citizen of the place for many years, but now in the army, had his hand shot off. He was then run over by the cavalry and his hips put out of place, but he managed to get to the middle of the suspension bridge, jumped off and swam to the opposite shore of the Guyandotte, where he was taken and his hands tied behind him and refused any thing to eat, until a secession woman almost compelled them to allow her tominister to his wants; and when they marched off, he was compelled to march afoot in his disabled condition. The attack was so sudden and unexpected, that not more than forty of our men got into line to resist them. Others, however, fought them singly, and those only made their escape, who were satisfied at the start that the number of the enemy was too great to contend against, and fled immediately, except in a few instances, where they hid under houses and log piles until the enemy retired. Some fifty or sixty are known to have got away, and perhaps others will turn up. The rebels held the place until about ten o'clock the next morning, when the S. B. Boston came up with about two hundred of the Fifth Virginia regiment, under Col. Zeigler. They were joined by a number of the Home Guards, of Lawrence County, Ohio, who had assembled at Proctorsville, opposite, to prevent the rebels from landing in Ohio, which they had threatened to do. On the arrival of the Boston, some shots were fired at her from Guyandotte, which were answered by a shot from a small two-pounder, sending a ball through a rebel's brick house. The rebels immediately left on double-quick time, and the hypocritical secession citizens, who had been instrumental in getting up the attack, came on the bank of the Ohio with a great number of white flags, which they waived quite enthusiastically, supposing they could still deceive our brave Union men, who had plead for them and saved their property from destruction, but it was all in vain. Their destruction was decreed by an indignant people, and three regiments would not have prevented them from burning the town. Our troops passed over; a few shots were fired at the rear guard of the retreating rebels, and a few arrests made of leading secessionists, among them H. H. Miller, who had been for some time with the rebel army, and came in with Jenkins and got trapped at home; E. A. Smith, who was seen firing with a revolver on our soldiers in the street; John S. Everett, who shot at one of our soldiers swimming the Guyandotte, and several others. And then the town was soon in flames. No Union man's house was set on fire, but several caught from the others. The town is, at least three-fourths of it, burnt up. All the stores, the hotel, and the finest dwelling houses, are in ashes. He Mr. Wheeler says, in addition to what he has written, that the first intimation he or any one else had of the attack upon the town-all was confusion, and indiscriminate fighting was going on in the streets. The attack was made about seven o'clock in the evening, and in a short time the rebels had formed their lines around the town. Mr. Wheeler made his escape, in company with his little boy, by running into a cornfield with a heavy fire in his rear. walked all night before he met a man whom he dared to approach upon the subject of crossing the river. When he did finally encounter a Union (?) man, he had to employ the persuasive chink of the almighty dollar before he could be accommodated. Congressman Whaley acted gallantly, appearing in the streets and urging his men to resistance. The secession citizens who knew of the contemplated attack, had succeeded in completely deluding Whaley's men. There was not a single picket out at the time of the attack, and no alarm was given. IRONTON "REGISTER" ACCOUNT. Our neighboring town of Guyandotte, Virginia, opposite the upper part of this countya town of about one thousand inhabitants when the war began-was the theatre of tragic events and terrible scenes last Sunday night and Monday. The town is two-thirds in ashes -hotels, business houses, and dwellings, all in one dreadful ruin. The people-nearly all of the bitterest and most violent secessionists and rebels, with scarcely "ten righteous" among them, far in advance, in rebel work, of any in all Western Virginia--the people have met with a terrible retribution, awfully severe, yet the fruit of their own works. What a reward is theirs! Ten of its leading men now prisoners in jail, their stores, hotels, and fine residences in total ruins, their families wanderers! Col. K. V. Whaley, of Wayne Co., Va., was forming the Ninth Virginia regiment, with his camp at Guyandotte. He had altogether about one hundred and fifty men, but many were absent on furlough last Sunday. On Saturday, thirty-five men of the cavalry of Col. Zeigler's Fifth Virginia, under Lieuts. Feazzel and Shanley, joined him; and probably Col. Whaley had on Sunday night, when attacked, not to exceed one hundred and thirty-five or one hundred and forty men under his command in Guyandotte. Eighteen were in the hospital, mostly with the measles. The attack was sudden, and entirely unexpected, and his men were “taking it easy"'-some at church, some sauntering about town, some asleep in their quarters, and only a camp guard" out, no "pickets out. In short, they were in a criminally careless condition, and, so far as Col. Whaley was concerned, merited to be "cleaned out," and it was done, although there was abundant evidence of his gallant conduct in the fight. About eight o'clock in the evening the rebel guerilla cavalry of Col. Jenkins, in force estimated from four hundred to eight hundred-very good authority It is supposed that Jenkins went with his force to his own plantation, as the next night his warehouse was thrown open, a large fire burning in front of it, and a man with a lantern under the bank, hailed the steamboat Moderator, but our captain was not quite green enough to be caught in that secesh trap. He, however, rang the bell twice, as though he were going to land. But ten or twelve men showed them-" selves, and there is very little doubt that the warehouse was full of his ragamuffin crew. When I left, there was a report that three thousand infantry of the rebel army were at Barboursville, marching on Guyandotte, but I supposed it to be a false rumor. Yours, most respectfully, J. C. WHEELER. puts it at eight hundred, but probably four | Ceredo, one of them a rebel captain. They hundred is nearer the actual number-suddenly carried off their wounded, except one we hear fell upon Col. Whaley, from different directions."Rally! was instantly the word in Whaley's camp; the men gathered in squads, sheltering themselves behind buildings, embankments, and from the darkness of their various places of making “stands,” made a gallant resistance of over an hour, pouring a dreadful fire in upon their assailants in the streets. From their scattered condition at the onset, probably not many over one hundred Union men got to their guns-Enfield rifles, but those that did, fought desperately against four to one, and they only gave up the fight, at last, when overwhelmed by the superior numbers. of, said to be mortally wounded in the side. Also, they carried away, in wagons that belonged to Col. Whaley's men, several dead bodies. The names of the dead on our side, as far as we can learn, are James Massie, Wm. Vititoe, Pleasant Lunsford, all from the northeast part of this county, and John Malloy, an Irishman. We can arrive certainly at ten wounded on our side-among them Wm. Wilson, Clement Nance, George Sines, and Amos Lambert, of the northeast part of this county. The leg of Sines was broken by a ball. Also a man named Bragg was among the wounded. Dr. G. B. Bailey, of Portsmouth, who commanded the Portsmouth Company in the First Ohio, at the Bull Run defeat, is said to have been shot in the chin, and taken prisoner. He was acting as assistant surgeon in Col. Whaley's command. We know, leaving out of account any reported thrown into the river, that of the Federal troops five were killed, ten wounded— this positive; others probably killed and wounded. The rebel loss was probably greater, for they were exposed in the open streets, while our men fought from sheltered positions. P. S.-The dead body of Dr. Bailey, of Ports the Guyandotte. The wound in the chin was not serious; and probably he was either thrown from the bridge, or drowned while attempting to swim the Guyandotte River. There was a sanguinary struggle at the bridge over the Guyandotte River, and those who have since visited the bridge report it covered with blood, as in a slaughter-house. Some of the Federal troops were killed here, and their bodies are said to have been thrown off the bridge into the river by their rebel antagonists. A reliable man, who was in the fight, tells us that one wounded man begged not to be thrown over, but he says, "I heard a splash." Three of our men attempted to swim the Guyandotte River; two of them are reported shot; one did swim the river, but he received a bul-mouth, was found in the river, at the mouth of let in the leg. One man was pulled out from under a house. Another concealed near says: แ I heard an officer yell, 'Here, shoot this d-d Yankee!'" Wm. Wilson, of Marion, in this county, is said to have been thrown from the Of prisoners, the rebels took about forty-five, bridge. He swam out, concealed himself, and Col. Whaley of the number. Among them after daylight the next morning, he with an- were Dr. Jona. Morris, surgeon; Thos. Ross, other man, having passed up under the bank sergeant-major; Hamilton Smith, (son of John of the Ohio, was shot from the house of Rob-K.,) Jacob Black-all of Ironton. Capt. Uriah ert Stewart, a notorious rebel, just above Guy-Payne, who had a company there from the andotte, and wounded severely in the thigh. back part of this county, which suffered severeWilson was lying at Fuller's, in Quaker Bot-ly, was among the prisoners. Captain A. T. tom, Monday night. Yells of the infuriated rebels were often heard, such as: "Don't let a man escape! "Give 'em hell!" "Take no prisoners!" and language not best to repeat. There are reports of firing on our men from the windows in town; so men in the fight say. Brattin, of Ironton, after the fight, concealed himself under a house, and escaped the next morning. Ol. McClure escaped in the same way. It was McClure who shot the rebel captain. We are indebted to Captain Brattin for much of this narration, corroborated by several The rebels pursued the squads, charging upon others. In leaving Guyandotte Monday mornthem around the corners, running down indi-ing, the prisoners had their arms bound behind viduals, killing some, wounding others, taking others prisoners; and after the fight was over, they hunted many from places where they had attempted to conceal themselves. The rebel troops held possession of the town until about eight o'clock Monday morning, when they left, just as the steamer Boston, with a portion of the Fifth Virginia, under command of Col. Zeigler, was about arriving, and other Union soldiers were gathering in; for the country, for thirty miles above and thirty below, had been alarmed. with strong cords or ropes, and, in some instances, where they did not step to suit their guard, we are quite reliably informed they were kicked; one was seized by the hair of his head and kicked. The rebels captured about two hundred Enfield rifles, thirty-eight cavalry horses, and all the saddles and horse equipments, which had just been received, and were new; also, they took some commissary stores. When they first made the attack, a strong party went directly to the stables where our men had their horses, in their manner showing that they had been fully "posted." Several of their horses were We find it a difficult matter to arrive at the exact loss on either side, but probably can get fully as near to it as usual in such cases, per-killed. haps nearer. The dead bodies of six-four There is no doubt that the rebels in town Union, two rebels-have been brought down to had accurately informed the rebel troops of |