Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-10-10

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4 Louistilih. Oct -Tlin Normal "a fnfotmed
of a sharp skirmish last night with Gen, Sill :
advance and two thousand rebel cavalry. al
Floyds Fork, the enemy being posted on the
surrounding hills. We repulscd them, and they
returned We then brought our artillery against
them, when they agail fled. We captured in
an old house 10 that yiciutyg forty thousand
rounds OF anfhunition. f 49,
L Heavy tnuskotry firing was heard on The
Shelbyylle1 road sixtcen fmiles distant, at 81
O'Clock this hornihe Resnlt unknpaRp.
The Journal also says a skirnish took place
this morning, five niles distaut ON the Bhrtis-
tdwn road. The rebels We're repulsci; their
loss is unknown, Our loss was twenty-hye inl
Killed and wounded. alr aDservne 49,
Z Gen. Morgan with his whole force, from Cunn-l
berland Gap, has reached the Ohio fivef OPP
ppsite Portsmouth,. ffe sihtaDsf
/ Cannonadng has been hoard to-day, near
/ Mount Washington.
4 The rebels evacuated shelbyyille, last night,
first compelling the store-keepers to receive
Confederate scrip IN payment for what they
wanted. sG t3
! AT Paris, Kentucky, all the store-keepcfs ex-
cept two sccesh, sent thdir goods away. The
rebels fntcrred 6f the two, supply Of blaHltets,
paying in Confederate scrip. The blankets Civ
ing out, they insisted un cutting up those store
Keepers carpets for blanketss Hhe secesh store
bfcepers declined receiving Confederate scrip
putin Jail, for discreiifhg Confedefate money,
We learn that Kirby Smith has been playing
tic s9me game upon several secesh storekeepers
lat Lexington, ~
( Louisville. Oct, 4-The southern line is
working 10 Fmnklin, KY, CLARK Co.
! Advices say Jack burner, with company Of
rebels went up Red River, TO capture Jim
| Townsend's home guards The rebels were
defeated with great slaughter.
! Col. s. ID. Bruce receives the highest com.
nIendatiou Of military circles here for his ope-
rations at Bowling Green.
The rebels burned bridge near Auburn,
4 Monday night Bruce WINS Immediately sent
thither with the 7th Ind, and part of the 9Th
Kentucky and rebuilt the bridge aud routed
the enemy at Russellville, killing aud wounding
so, and taking IS prisoners, aud 40 horses aud
saddles. He also routed party at Glasgow,
| yesterday, taking 10 prisoners, including Lieut..
Col. Crews, Capt. Brown and Lieut.. Thomas.
Portsmouth, Ohio, dispatch to Governor
Robinson, says John Morgan, with 1000 men,
yesterday attacked the Carter County home
gpards near Oliver Hill After several hours
severe skirmshing, Morgan was repulsed, and
20 of his men killed. Morgan then rctreaied
towards licking River, burning 81 houses on
his way. Last night Morgan returned to Oil
yer Hill. Meanwhile Colonel Leifert went to
Portsmouth, and brought down 500 of the Nth
Ohio. srg1 frN tr
Bardstown advices say, the rebels have from
10000 to $4,000 men within a circle of miles
in diameter, around Bardstown. Our central
advance was this afternoon four miles this side
of Bardstvwn. They have been slSirtnishing
and driving the rebels before them for the past
three days. We captured 600 prisoners.
1t is said Kirby Smith had arrived at Frank
fort with 10000 men, and Humphrey Marshal
e Is on the way with 5000 more. They evidentl,
!, mean to make a stand at frankfort, and battl
: at Bardstown seems imminent The report o
d aufcip1tp1 Gubt nf Mt WasbipUfop ffr
\ day, arose from our orces shelling the woods a
t they advanced. Bragg and Buckner, left Damn
$ vile, for Lexington, yesterday. Bragg in
y lspeechat Dannvile, Monday, threatened to sent
It every man who would not join the rebel army
g to the north Of the OhiorigeE The rebels ar
o cutting new road from Bardstown to Spring
field and Lexington.
Madison Ind, Oct. IN. C. CARRIER, Quar-
Itermaster 10 Gen. Geo. Morgans Division, tele
Egraphs the following to the Madison Courier:
., The advance brigade of Gen. @. W. Morgan
-t command from Cumberland Sap, arrived a
! Greenupsburg, Ky, to-day, the 3d, after an ex
Is hausting march of sixteen days having the roa,
:, to make in many places. The men are shoeles'
&c hatless, and naked. For days they have beel
:, without Iations, gathering their subsstencefron
d tho standing corn fields, which they grated. 4
9 make bread, after the faiignes Of the day., Tn
:; men bore the hardships and prfyations of th
march with the greatest fortitude. They, wer
IndICitfu bhu uluer arms twenty nourS q uay
, skirmishing in the woods op, each side of tn
; road, and repelling the attempts of the: rebe
cavalry in. front aud rear. The enemy block
AIDED the way in every place suitable and han
s rassed the columns as Inachas possible.
d Our column is 10000 strong, with a magnif
centpark of artillery, consisting of % piece
six of which are twenty Founders, and four hun
dred wagons, all of which were brought off il
safety, The works. at Cumberland Gap wer
e left in ruins. So ..l - ~
Z Bowling Green, Oct. 6, 1852. -Gogcrpo
: : Morton-We bad fight with $50 rebel
u at Russellvillc on Sept Soth, and wbippe'
It them badly, killing and wounding thirty
!. five, taking ten prisoners, forty-two horse
! and ffty guns. We lost one man., Howar
: Hudnut of Company A. ~ '-.'''@
J [Signed BEN. HARRIsoE,
y Colonel 7th Indiana Regiment.
: Louisville, Oct 7-General Gilbert, with h
ye corps, isat Lebanon. 81 .sLQ
{. II is supposed by military mon that the who
,r rebel force is reireating- TO Hollis Gap, a fe
v miles south OF Crab Orchard, where they inter
4 A TO make stand. The bridge at Shepardsyfl
is viii be completed by Sunday. Nearly all Il
bridges between Us and the rebels have bee
,e burned by. them, aRd-eome, thFee weeks wi
is elapse before they can be reconstructed.
Y The story of the capture, by the rebels, ne
Elizabethtewp, of fonr companies of the Oh
q / Cavalry last week, is untrue.
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