, 1863-04-03
The Rebel Marauders
Put to Flight.
BRILLIANT ACHIEVEMENT
OF GEN. GILMORE.
THE NEW BATTLE OF
SOMERSET.
GEN. BURNSIDE ARRIVES AT
LEXINGTON,

Especial Dispatch to the Chicago T,ibunc.1
LEx1sc1ox, Ky, April 2, 1863,
General Gilmore and Staff returned from
tue front last night, leaving Colone1s Runl1o
and Wolford to pick up prisoners and bring
up the rear. General Pegram's long planned
and boasted invasion Of Kentucky has ended
in destructive and disgraccful dcfeae, to the
bitter disappointment Of resident rebels, aud
the CONSERVATION Of the Dragging Confcdc
ratcs who, at 4 vast expense Of time, men and
money, have at last made but a mcasre haul,
Gen. Gilmore assumed command in person.
and left here with the determination to re.
capture the spoils of the rebel expcdftion
and punish the audacity Of the braggards.
Pcrcclrins that they had converted retreat
into peaceful fight, he left the infantry and
pushed on with his mounted force consisting
of the LIST Kentucky cavalry, Col. Wolford:
55tl' Ohio cavalry, mounted, Col. Rrnk1c: a
detachment Of the 44th, mounted, under Maj.
Mitchell, and 7th Ohio cavalry, Col. Ganard.
in all 1,2o0 men.
Such was the energy Of the pursuit, that,
notwithstanding tile rebels had thirty.six
hours the start, they wero oycrtakcn four
miles north Of Somerset
Gen. Carter, in command of 500 mounted
men had reached Duck Cre.k, twelve miles
from Somerset, where Gen, Gilmore reached
him with lis body guard and the 7th Ohio
cavalry, increasing the number to 1.ooo
with which they doublc.quickcd until
within reach Of the cncmys rear guard,
Wien the skirmishing commenced, Generals
Gilu.orc and Carter, with Wo1fords cavalry
and the body guard, were in the advance.
as often us the rebels made stand, they
were di*lodged with shell. Within twelve
miles Of Somerset, Mt Dutton's Hill, in very
strong position, tho rebels drew up in force
and planted their batteries, and here, about
L. o'clock commenced The real battle.
Our line Of battle was drawn up with the
batteries in the centre, supported BY the 7th
cavalry; Runklc, with detachment Of the
althand 45th on the left, and Wo1ford's On the
right. The preliminary artillery fight lasted
one and q half hours, dis.nountlng three Of
their guns. The wings were then ordered to
adyancc-Wolford did SO mounted and Ruiz
klc dismountcd-and found 1t too hot; but
when the enemy found him out and com
,ncnccd shelling him he threw aside all hesi-
tation, and at tue head Of his men he gallant
II charged up the llill. The rebels moved out
to meet him and for an instant the line way
cred, with the batteries playing directly upon
them, slot and shell booming over them,
and lcaden rain playing around them.
They paused only to take breath, and with
shout they hurled their column uron tho
advancing foe. Col. Runk1c aud his COM
mand behaved like heroes.
At the same time, Wolford, on tho right,
and Col. Garrard, iii the centre, charged, and
| the enemy broke In disorder to their horses.
under cover Of wooded hills, and fed pell-
nell through the town. Capt. Stone, with
detachment Of the 44th, was ordered forward
to encounter body Of Scott's and Ashby's
rebel cavalry, which were here detected in Il
flank movement on Wolford. COL l.andcrs
liastened to reinforce, and after Il short, sharp
and decided conflict, captured 60 prisoners,
and put the rest to rout.
| A detachment Of Scott's men were seen ay-
ing into the road, to cut of Capt Stowe,
when Gen. Gilmore, at the head of lbs body
| guard, charged down upon them like a whirl-
wind, and they turned Off into another road.
Gen. Gilmore and guard entered the town,
and held 1t until the 44th and 45th regiments
came mp. The enemy llladc another stand
| three miles below Somerset, and were again
routed. Night came on and our boys were
| exhausted. 1n the morning it was found that
the rebels had crossed the river during the
night, in great confusion, and more than one
hundred, 1t is said, were drowned.
They planted i battery on the river, which
was quickly demolished. We recovered four
hundred cattle at the river. Their loss, in
killed and captured, is nearly five hundred;
fifty were killed The loss Oh our side is but
thirty five in killed, wounded aud missing.
| The whole affair is said to have been brilliant
one.
4 Surgeon, under 4 flag Of true, came Ii,
our lines, after the battle, to search for Gen
rcgrans.
Gen. Burnside arrived at Lexington, ut six
O'Clock p. Ill.,, and WAS received with great
eclat by the citizens.
| CINCINNATI, April a-Thcrc is no direct
news from Vicksburg,
4 Lexington dispatch to the Cincinnati
Times states that Gen. Gilmore arrived from,
Somerset tlis morning: The enemy, mum.
boring 1000, were oyertaGen four miles north
Of Somerset. After five hours fighting the
rebels .!cd, pursued By cavalry, to the FLYER.
The rebels lost fifty killed and nearly 400 pris.
oncrs, including twenty officers. We rccoy.
| cred 400 stolen cattle. We lost ten killed
and twenty-five wounded. Our force mum,
/ bercd 200.
4 dispatch has been received at head.
quarters Of the army, from Louisville, April
| on the enemy in the neighborhood Of Somcr.
set, Ky. Gen. Burnside says "the alacrity
ygor and gallantry displayed bY our troop:
| arc highly commendable.f