Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-07-25
Gen, McClellan's Column.

OGicial diSpatches-!SuccesS Of federat Troops
in Tie EnRauhG I'atiB
WAsnINGroN, July l9.-'l'hc following
dispatch has just been received at the Head
quarters of the Army:
BEVERLY, July 10, 1861.
COL +. ID. Townsend,
Adiutaut General L. S. Army:
One of Gen. Coxs regiments-the Second
Kentuckv-defcatcd and drove six hundred
vi Gen Wisc's men out of BarbUursvl!ie, Ca
bell county, on the 10th inst.
tSigncdl e. Il. McCIe1Ian'
NIaior-Gcneral Commanding,
Department OF the Ohio.
LII. COL. PEGRAM'S SURRENDER.
The following is the letter Of Lieut.. Col.
Pagram Offering to surrender after the defeat
of the Confedcratcs at Beverly:
HEADQUARTERS al lr. KehRe's House, !
Near Tygart's Valley River,
Six miles ipon, Beverly, July II, 'Gl. }
To Commanding Officer Of Northern
Forces. Beverly, Nirginia.-Sir: ! write to
state to you that | have. in consequence oil
the retreat of Gen. Garnet, and the laded
and reduced condition of my command, most
Of them having been without food for two
DAYS, concluded with the concurrence Of Il
majority oflny captains and field officers, t.
surrender my command to you Tomorrow, rs
prisoners Of ir0r. | have only to add trust
they will only receive mt your hands such
treatment as has been invariably shown to
the Northern prisoners by the South. ! am,
sir, your obGdicnt servant,
John Pegram.
Lieut.. Col. P. A., G. s., Commanding.
Gen. Mcclellan sent the following reply by
his aiA-decamp, Lieut. Williams:
HalguatcrS, Department Of The ohio, !
Bercriy, July -, 1861.
John Pegram, Esq, styling himself Lieut..
ca. p. A.. C. S.-ST: l0nr communication
dated Yesterday, proposing to surrender as
prisoners Of war the force assembled under
vuur command. las been delivered to me. As
commander of this Department. | will receive
YOU and them with the Kindness due 30 pris-
nners of war, but it i, not in my power to re-
licyc Won r. them from any liabilities incurred
By taking arms against the United States
am, very respectfully, your obedlent SER
want. GEO. Is. NCCLEihAN,
Major General United States Army Com
mandmg Department.
fnoher Engagement bet,recn the fetTot
Troops ard q Portion Of Hises Brigade.
CrNclHNArI July 1S.-The Kanawha cor
respondent of the Gazette, says:
On the morning of the Sth Gen. Cox or.
dered the 12th Ohio Regiment, two companies
g 81 pI lp { gel al
Artillery. and the " cSton Cavalry, to recon-
noitre a supposed NAKED battery, near the
mouth Of Pope creek. On reaching the
Creek, four miles from Gen. CnX's headquar-
tiers, they discovered TIE enemy, to the mum
Der of l 800, strongly "ntrcnched on S2arcy
| HILL, with masked battery OF two guns
| Ga reaching the Creek, our men were fired
upon from the masked battery, and from a
| log hoosc.
! The fire was promptly returned, and ON
, men, after firing forty ronnGS, crossed the
creek and silcnced the battery, hut our am
munitinn giving ont we were compelled to re-
tire. One gun of the masked battery Wa
nftcrwarI rcmautea and opened fire. Capt
| Allen and Lieut.. Pomeroy, Of tie 2lst Ohl'
and two others were killed Seventeen wcrC
wounded and three are missing. Col. Nor
ton, OF the lst Ohio Regiment, was also '}nd
| ~ WOUNDED and taken prisoner. The Con-
! iederatcs were commanded by Col. Tompkn,'
Col. Woodruff and 1t. Col NciI. Of the Isl
! Kentucky Regiment, and Col. Devaliers, OF
the 1lth Ohio, left Gen CoXS camp on the
/ l7lh. NothiNg had been heard from them
at the last accounts, and it is supposed they
are either killed or taken prisoners.