Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-07-09
[Telegraphie Correspondence Cincinnati Com
The Barle In Western Virginia.

BUcKEANNoN, Fa1 July z.
Our gallant band of fifty Buckley es, Third
Ohio Regiment under Capt. 0. A. Lawson,
Of Columbus, made a good record yesterday
afternoon. without Gen. NJ Clellan's knowl-
edge, Gen. Schleich ordered Col. Morrow to
detach fifty men for a scouting expedition
Surgeon McMeans accompanied the party,
five men being taken from each company of
the regiment. This expedition proceeded BY
bride paths across the hills to a point on
Beverly Pike, and encamped for the night.
About midnight Union men appealed to
them for protection against m~arauding rebels
who had forced their women and children TO
fee to the woods for safety, and had plllaged
their houses.
Lawson scaled q rough mountain and
! crossed Middle Fork in the morning, two
and a half miles above the bridge. He fol-
lowed the stream with great difficulty
through unbroken thickets, until he reached
a good ambush within musket range of the
bridge which was crowded with rebels. The
enemy discovered his party, and an advance
| guard of Eve cautiously approached him from
the bridge, all ready with their muskets.-
His men stood up, and both parties fred
simultaneously. Three of the rebels fell at
the first round, and the other two dropped
Immediately afterwards. The enemy now
opened upon his little band from three sides
from the bridge, behind, its entertainments,
and the thickets of the hillside.
In order to get better opportunity, he
moved his men into an open space seventy
I've yards from, and commanding the Eastern
entrance Ofthe bridge, and poured into the
crowd of rebels a CALLING FIRE; the effect was
awful imprecations and screams of smurder."
His men obeyed orders with absolute COM
posure. A number had already been hit,
and one was killed in the act of firing
A"sr firing four rounds into the bridge he
ordered q retreat and the lads backed slowly
into the bushes, carrying their wounded
The enemy did not pursue, and his party
recrossed the stream q mile and a half above
the bridge. Capt Lawson brought away
the musket of his dead soldier, but was unable
to carry of the body, the enemies ambuscade
from the hill sides being too hot. He says
his party was not much harrassed by the
rebels at the bridge, but the anbuscade was
annoying.
Those in the bridge and behind the m
bankment would pop up their heads and
blaze away without good aim, but those in
the bushes were more deliberate. An Irish
man in the party says it was "het as he'll"
Lawson says his men behaved ~splendidly,
not a man hinehed, and they obeyed orders
just as promptly as if on dress parade.
The men say the Captain himself ANNA
ted them by his cheerful voice, which was
heard above the din Of the conflict. DR.. Nc
Means says the Captain was IS calm and col
lected as if he wal playing soldier.
The casualties were as follows: Samuel
W. Jones, of Hamilton, Butler Co., shot
dead by ball through the breast; Corporal
Joseph High, of Columbus, shot in the right
foot by a rebel from the hill side. The ball
struck on the top of the ankle, and passed
downward, SCATTERING the small bones Of the
foot. The surgeons hope to a v the foot,
but it is doubtful. High was in the front of
the battle, and fell eIclaiming: "Cap:ain'
Pm hit but I must have another shot;
raising and standing on one foot he loaded
and fred twice more, when being faint, two
Of his comrades assisted him into the bush
es. Nicholas Black, e Brighton but; her
boy, Of CinciHnati, was struck in the fore
head, over the right eye, by a buckshot,
which lodged between the skull bones-a
severe wound, but not dangerous. he
fell, and, rising again, be took tvo more
shots at the enemy. George VI. Darling, Of
Newark, was SHOT in the left arm; the ball
entered ct the elbow, and tra7ersed the
muscles of the arm seven or eight inches,
blowing up a ghAstly furrow;lthe bone was
not brokeE David Edison, of GAINESVILLE,
Belmont county, slightly wounded in the
right ARM Joseph Backus, of Newark,
slightly wounded in the left leg VIM. Den
ing Of Hamilton, Butler county, had the
skin above his right ear cut by a ball. seven or
eight of the men received scratches, and had
their clothing riddled. Captain Lawson
says Mr.. Miller, Of WOrthington, was the
coolest and pluckiest fellow in the hght-
BE was the last to quit the field, and left the
bushes twics to get 8 fair shot but Dr..
NcMsans said every man Of The perty dis
played good pluck. The wounded were