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MILL SPRINGS AND SOMERSET, KY.
the villages and drinking establishments, a nuisance and disturbance
to the quiet citizens of the country. Captain Everett has just joined
me, and reports a series of irregularities by stragglers of this regiment
as having passed under his notice in the several villages through which
he passed.
Is there no such thing as obtaining a regiment of reliable cavalry ?
Such a regiment is indispensable with this brigade at this time. The
absence of such troops has kept me in the saddle until I am nearly worn
down with fatigue.
I very much need a brigade commissary of subsistence, who could have
the means to purchase such articles as it may become necessary to pur-
chase. The system of making purchases by regimental commissaries
and giving promise to pay is open to abuse, and has become a great
annoyance.
The two Tennessee regiments will be here to-morrow. I shall, no
doubt, need them by the time they arrive.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. SCHOEPF,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS.
P. S.-I regret to add that Major Helveti, of the Kentucky Cavalry,
and Captain Prime, Engineers, are both missing, and have been; I now
learn, captured by the enemy. These officers left camp with me on
Wednesday on a reconnaissance, but, taking a different road, fell into the
hands of the enemy. An earlier report would have been made of this,
but I had looked for their return until after the departure of the Satur-
day's mail, my last reliable means of communicating with you. I deem
it useless now to send a dispatch by a cavalry express.
No. 2.
Report of Col. Ferdinand Van Derveer, Thirty-fifth Ohio Infantry.
CAMP NEAR SOMERSET, KY., December 8, 1861.
GENERAL: I have the honor to report that at 2 o'clock this afternoon
rapid firing was heard from our advance picket, 30 strong, stationed on
the Fishing Creek road, about 2 miles from our camp.
The battalion was immediately formed, and two companies went
quickly to the relief of the picket. The enemy had been checked and
were scattered through the woods.
The picket was first alarmed by several of Captain Dillion's cavalry,
who had been posted a few miles in advance, rushing past. They could
not be stopped, and in a few moments the whole company came rushing
along, refusing to halt to assist our men, and so ran on to camp. Had
they rendered any assistance the enemy would have been routed with
considerable loss.
Our picket, under the direction of Lieut. W. C. Dine, of Company D,
being in an open field, formed and delivered three volleys, retreating
while loading to the woods, which they reached, and then came on to
camp in small parties.
We killed 1 of their officers in command of the advance, 1 of their
horses, and captured 1 horse. Our own loss was 1 killed, 1 wounded,
and 15 missing.9
CaA. XVII.]
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 7., book, 1882; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth154610/m1/15/?q=Army: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.