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NINTH INDIANA REGIMENT.-Killed.-Co. A— Privates Daniel S. Souders, Jackson Kilmer. Co. E-Sergeant Thomas R. McKay. Co. FPrivate Walter H. Pangborn. Co. G-Privates Joseph Gordon, Perry Knowles, Charles Wilson. Co. H-Corporal Benjamin F. Huntington.

Wounded.-Co. A-Sergt. Hezekiah Thomas, | Co. E-Sergeants G. L. J. King, slightly; D. J. seriously; Privates J. W. Holland, seriously; Kemp, slightly; J. R. Cole, slightly. Privates C. H. King, seriously; Levi Butler, slightly; John Burns, left on field; Col. Song, slightly; Henry Meek, slightly; Levi Ryan, slightly; George Huid, slightly; Thomas Boyne, slightly; Wm. J. Lockwood, slightly; Samuel Henry, Wm. Shields or Shuly, slightly; M. Holert, slightly; James McMullins, slightly; Daniel J. slightly; E. Lam, slightly. Co. G-Privates Crooks, slightly; James C. Bolan, slightly. Co. Dennis Spencer, slightly; Elijah Mitchell, slightB-Second Lieut. John D. Merriman, slightly;ly. Co. H-Second Lieutenant William O'Neil, First Sergt. George W. Martin, slightly; Cor- in the thigh; Sergeant William A. Durst, slight poral Charles Beck, left arm fractured; Private ly. Co. I-Corporals H. H. Swindler, slightly; Joseph J. Hopton, slightly. Co. C-Sergeant Benj. Kenyon, slightly; Frederick Fisher, slightWm. Henthorn, supposed mortally; Privates ly. Co. K-Sergeant A. W. Huffman; Privates Jonathan Dunn, supposed mortally; W. J. John Nelroman, seriously; John Kath, slightly. Henthorn, slightly; Elijah Beckett, severely; Missing.-Co. D-Private William Brown. Isaiah Masters, slightly. Co. D-First Lieut. Co. E-Sergeant Lat. Randolph. Co. F-PriDerius Dirlam, slightly; Sergeant Hiram A. vates William Stinson, Jacob Weassan. Ward, supposed mortally; Privates Wm. Jones, supposed mortally; Jonathan Ward, severely; William White, slightly; Daniel S. Coc, severely; R. B. Compton, slightly. Co. E-Privates John E. Rearich, severely in leg; Richard D. Phelps, severely, in thigh; August Fruh, slightly, on the head. Co. F-Corporal Enville A. Hasson, slightly, in elbow; Privates Thomas Jones, severely, in thigh-fractured; Asa Meredith, severely, in shoulder; George ders. Co. D-Private Moris E. Richards. Co. Alter, slightly, in elbow; John McKinly, slightly, in hand; Hugh Wilson, slightly-toe shot off. Co. G-Privates George Haney, supposed mortally; Michael Harris, slightly, in neck; John D. Fisher, slightly, on top of head; Gilbert J. Ogden, slightly, in right leg; John Ewalt, slightly, in right arm. Co. H-Corporal Cornelius S. Barrett, severely, in face; Privates John P. Durson, severely, in arm; William Chadwick, elbow shattered; Blair Kinkead, severely, in calf of leg; George W. Read, severely, in cheek. Co. J-Privates Archelam Snigo, slightly, in hand; Wm. Barlo, slightly; N. C. Lovett, slightly; Isaac Kirk, slightly; James Break, slightly, in leg. Co. K-Privates Sheppard Lewis, supposed mortally; Harlem Page, severely; Andrew Hutchinson, slightly.

Missing. Co. A-Private John Richards. Co. D-Private Wm. H. Brown. Co. I-Private Lorenzo Shackler. Co. K-Privates Marcus L. Decker, John H. Briscoe.

THIRTY-SECOND OHIO REGIMENT.-Killed.Co. G-Private Samuel H. Prior. Co. F-Pri

vate William Clarke.

Wounded. Co. F-Privates Abraham Lessy, seriously; John Clarke, seriously. Co. GPrivates Robert J. Hamilton, seriously; Harper Brosens, seriously. Co. H-Private Chas. Prior, seriously. Co. K-Private Thomas B. Hess, seriously. Co. B-Private Isaac Hamilton, slightly. Co. F-First Lieutenant Charles C. Brant, slightly; Private Will Sharpe, slightly. Co. G-Private James White, slightly.

THIRTEENTH INDIANA REGIMENT.-Killed.Co. B-Private William Day. Co. K-Second Lieutenant Joseph P. Jones.

Wounded.-Co. A-Private Jas. Miller, slightly. Co. B-Private Matt. Fogen, slightly, left on field. Co. C-Serg't Edward Foster, seriously.

Wounded. Co. A-Capt. Thomas Madden, seriously. Co. B-Privates Stephen Wilcox, Sweet. Co. C-Private Erastus San

E-Capt. James R. Sherwood; Private Charles H. Allen. Co. I-Privates Christian Bliss, Levisone Packard, William Hackerthorn. Co. KSergeant Frank M. Rust; Private David Widman.

SECOND VIRGINIA REGIMENT.-Killed.—Co. A-Private Gustavius Steider, shot in the head. Co. G-First Lieutenant Sickman.

Wounded.—Co. D-Fourth Corporal John L. Heist, mortally. Co. C-Fourth Serg't Christ. Schweder, dangerously. Co. F-First Corporal James Stewart.

Slightly Wounded.-Co. A-Second Lientenant O. R. West, in the knee. Private Samuel L. Reynolds, in shoulder. Co. D-Private M. B. Mayson, shot through body. Co. GPrivate William Hulville, in cheek. Total killed

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WHEELING "INTELLIGENCER" ACCOUNT.

CAMP ELEWATER, VA., Dec. 18, 1861. On the 9th of December, an order was received from head-quarters, at Huttonville, for a portion of the Second Virginia to report at Cheat Mountain Summit immediately, or as soon as the weather and muddy roads would permit. About 2 o'clock P. M. of that day, detachments of Companies A, C, D, G, H, I, J and K, in all about two hundred and ninety men, under command of Major Owens, took up the line of march for the Summit, where we arrived at 9 o'clock, and were joined by detach ments of the Twenty-fifth and Thirty-second Ohio, Ninth and Thirteenth Indiana regiments,

making a column of one thousand four hundred | odds were too great against us.
men at the Summit. The object of the expedi-
tion was explained to us, it being to clean out
Camp Baldwin, situated on top of the Alleghany
Mountains, distant from Cheat Mountain Sum-
mit about twenty-five miles.

On the 12th instant we left there, (the Summit,) and marched to the old camp of the rebels at Greenbrier, and there halted long enough to get supper and rest, where our force was divided, seven hundred going up the Greenbrier River, and a like number up the turnpike toward Staunton, where the two columns were to make the attack at 4 o'clock in the morning; but owing to the roughness of the road, and three miles of it up the mountain, much steeper than any part of Wheeling Hill, the column which your correspondent was with could not get up until about 8 o'clock in the morning, when we commenced the fight, on our side, by wounding two of the rebel pickets and killing one; our lines were formed, and forward, charge bayonets given; away we went, whooping like devils, within two hundred yards of the rebel intrench ments, when the fire became so hot that all had to take shelter behind logs, trees, and whatever else could be found. In this position we kept up a regular Indian fight for over four hours; toward the last the firing became so accurate, that if an inch of one's person was exposed, he was sure to catch it. At last came orders to draw off, which was done in tolerably good order. My opinion is that there were over three thousand rebels we had to fight, and at no time had we over two hundred and fifty men in the fight; opposed to this force was at least one thousand five hundred rebel muskets, and four or five pieces of artillery, among which was a thirty-two pounder.

Our loss in killed and wounded, I think, will reach nearly one hundred and fifty, and the rebel loss in killed alone, over two hundred. It was one of the hardest fought battles that has yet occurred in Western Virginia. The fight occurred in Highland County, seven miles from Monterey, from which place they (the rebels) received large reinforcements. I notice that some member of the Convention proposed to include Highland in the new State. I think if he had been at the fight he would accept the amendment to strike out that county.

The loss in the Second Virginia regiment is three killed and ten wounded-some mortally, though they have not died, and one missing. Among the killed was Lieut. Sickman, of the Plummer Guards, now Company G in the regiment. He was highly esteemed and a gallant officer. The rebel artillery was silenced four or five times by some boys of the Second, who annihilated one artillery company. There were many amusing incidents occurring during the fight, which, as I have spun this letter out to a considerable length, cannot be related here. From our column, which was composed of the Second Virginia and Ninth Indiana, all fought bravely, and were deserving of victory, but the

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learned that the rebels contemplate attacking Elkwater in force. Let them come! The rebels also had a Second Virginia in the fight, and they were all fine-looking men, and well clothed. Our regiment was the last to leave the rebels. Considering that this was the first time we had been under fire, the men behaved well indeed. Major Milroy, of the Ninth Indiana, regardless of danger to himself, was everywhere encouraging the men during the fight.

SECESSION NARRATIVES.

RICHMOND "ENQUIRER" ACCOUNT.

RICHMOND, Dec. 16.

THE news has reached this city, both officially and otherwise, of a brilliant triumph of our arms over the enemy, on Friday morning last, the 13th inst.

The scene of the conflict was on the top of the Alleghany Mountain where it is crossed by the turnpike road leading west from Staunton, through Monterey, to Cheat Mountain. This point is about fifteen miles beyond Monterey, and about ten miles this side of the battle of Greenbrier, on the 3d of October. The intrenched camp of the enemy on Cheat Mountain is about seven miles beyond the Greenbrier River, and therefore seventeen miles west of the scene of the battle on Friday last.

The troops of the enemy were supposed to number about five thousand, and supposed also to be under the orders of Gen. Reynolds, the same who commanded at Greenbrier. The troops on our side consisted of two Georgia regiments, Col. J. B. Baldwin's regiment of Virginia troops, and two Virginia battalionsthe one commanded by Lieut.-Col. Hansbrough, of Taylor County, the other by Maj. Rogers, of Barbour County. There were also two fieldbatteries-the one commanded by Capt. Anderson, the other the battery of Capt. Rice. Our whole force numbered about two thousand, and were under the command of Col. Edward Johnson, of the Georgia troops, a native of Chesterfield County, Va.

It has already been stated that our army had fallen back from their entrenched camp at Greenbrier River, the scene of their former glory, and that a portion of our troops had been transferred elsewhere. Encouraged by this, the enemy threw forward their column, and by a night march reached the present camp of our troops, on the Alleghany, on Friday morning. They commenced their attack about sunrise. The battle raged for seven hours, when the enemy, appalled by his heavy losses, and the total failure of his efforts, beat a final retreat.

On our side twenty men fell upon the field. The wounded and missing will amount, it is supposed, to a hundred men. The loss of the enemy was very great. Their ambulances were busy throughout the fight, and as their rear was unmolested, they carried off a vast number of killed and wounded. Notwithstanding, when

forced to yield in the field, they left a large number of their dead in our hands. Eighty had already been found, at the date of our reports. Among the slain on our side, we are sorry to hear the name of Captain Anderson of the artillery. Lieut.-Col. Hansbrough is among the wounded, but, we are happy to hear, not dangerously.

Thus have the heroes of Greenbrier again taught the enemy a bloody lesson. On the river side and on the mountain top, twice has Reynolds sought to overpower them with superior numbers, and twice he has been driven back with shattered lines, and with heavy slaughter. This last failure has proved even far more disastrous than the first; and again have the brave soldiers, who have been enduring the hardships of the Virginia mountains, gladdened the hearts of their countrymen and added new glory to their own fame, by winning a victory of which our whole people will be proud.

For the particulars, as above narrated, we are indebted to a gentleman who came hither from Monterey after the news of the battle had reached there. Since writing it, we have obtained a copy of a despatch received here by the War Department. It is as follows:

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Six were found yesterday, with their eyes picked out by the crows, and many more doubtless lie scattered through the dense forest.

Among the officers that distinguished themselves in the late battle was Major Boykin, who commanded the Thirty-first Virginia Regiment. He charged at the head of his men, cheered them on by his valor, and drove the enemy in confusion down the hill. Major Boykin is from Lewis County, a graduate of the Military Institute, and is quite a young man. He is the idol of his men. We learn that he has since been promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy.

We daily expect a renewal of the attack upon our camp. The enemy, under the guidance of a tory named Slavin, have been reconnoitring our position, with the intention of cutting a road for artillery. A party has gone out to capture them, and I hope they may succeed, as Slavin is a great scoundrel, and guided the enemy in the attack on the 13th inst. If they head "old Johnson," they may next head the devil. T. S. -Richmond Dispatch.

RICHMOND, Dec. 22

A letter from Camp Alleghany states that in the bloody fight of the 13th, Col. Johnson appeared upon the field in citizen's dress, gave his commands in the most emphatic manner, and led the fierce charges in person. After the Yankees had been driven to the woods, the Lea battery, of Lynchburg, opened upon them with marked effect. Capt. B. P. Anderson, who commanded this battery, seeing a number of men partially concealed by fallen timber, supposed they were our pickets, and called out to them to come into the ditches. Hardly were the words out of his mouth, when a shower of musketry was poured upon him, and the noble old hero fell from his horse and died in about fifteen minutes. The command of the battery now devolved upon Lieut. W. W. Hardwicke, of Lynchburg, who directed the shots admirably, and exhibited much personal bravery. Capt. Miller's battery, from Rockbridge, opened upon the enemy in the thicket, with canister shot, and sent many a poor Hessian to his last account.

From another letter, addressed to a gentleman in this city, we glean the following incidents:

CAMP ALLEGHANY, Dec. 21, 1861. Our boys are laughing heartily over the Yankees' published account of the battle of Alleghany. The following passage is really amusing: "The rebels set fire to their camp and retreated to Staunton. Our boys left the field in good order." Why, my dear sirs, it would have done your heart good to have seen the scoundrels run! The road for three miles was covered with their knapsacks, canteens, blankets, hats, and haversacks, and the citizens from the country bring us the news that they were stricken with the most disgraceful panic. The villains vented their spleen upon an old woman living upon the Greenbank road, aged eighty-two years, by destroying her furniture, carrying off her provisions, and breaking up her cooking utensils. Col. Johnson sent her a sack of flour and some other articles. Their troops went back Capt. Thompson also behaved with great galto Cheat Mountain in wild confusion, demoral-lantry. He was surrounded once, but extricated ized and dispirited. Nothing prevented their himself, receiving many bullets through his entire capture but the withdrawal of Col. Tal- clothing, but sustaining no personal injury. iaferro's brigade from this line of operation. It is stated of Capt. Anderson, the veteran We learn from our spies, and from men re-hero who fell early in the engagement, that this cently from Northwestern Virginia, that the was his fifty-eighth battle. enemy confess a loss, in killed, wounded, and Col. Johnson said on the battle-field, that he missing, of over seven hundred men. Their could storm Arlington Heights with ten thousand dead bodies are still being found in the woods. I such troops as the boys from the Northwest.

In the second charge, while leading in the front, Lieut. Lewis Thompson received a shot through his body and another in his arm, just as he had shouted, "Come on, my brave boys, follow me!" He fell into the arms of Col Johnson, who says he was as brave a man as he ever saw.

Johnson was always in the thickest of the fight, .sometimes with a club in his hand, but generally with a musket; and another officer has since remarked that he could load and shoot faster than any man he saw.

The enemy, in the early part of the engagement, got between our commissary stores and the Confederate troops, and afterward two dead Yankees were found close to our tents, who are said to have been shot by a sick man lying in one of them.

Many of our men had bullet-holes through their clothing, and it is miraculous that our list of killed and wounded is so small. Fifty-five of the enemy were buried by our men, and some of them recognized as "Union men" from Marion County, by their old neighbors. stated by one who saw a good many of the dead Hessians, that none of them were shot lower than the breast, and many through the heart.

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A little hero named Musgrove, from Ritchie County, was shot through the arm by a man concealed behind a log. He immediately got a friend to load his musket, and, jumping over a pile of brush, shot the rascal who had wounded him, and secured his oil-cloth coat, with a name on it.

Every account which we have seen concurs in representing the rout of the enemy to have been complete, though it is not probable that we shall ever learn his actual loss.

-Richmond Dispatch, Dec. 23.

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PROCLAMATION OF GOV. JACKSON. DECEMBER 13, 1861.

Officers and Soldiers of the Missouri State Guard, and Fellow-Citizens:

IN the month of June last, after having exhausted every honorable means of averting the calamities of civil war, I called upon the State for fifty thousand volunteers, to drive the ruthless bands of hired invaders from our soil. Before making that call, I had asked that you might have the privilege of determining, at the polls, in a peaceable manner, your future political relations with the United States-determined, on my part, to abide that decision, whatever it might be. That privilege—a right which belongs to every freeman-was denied you. Our enemies chose to submit your rights to the arbitrament of the sword, and we accept the issue so boastingly tendered us.

There was no alternative left. We had either to draw the sword and defend our rights, or, like slaves, submit to the worst despotism on earth. Between these I could not and did not hesitate. I chose the former, and hence, from that time to the present, grim-visaged War has stalked through our State, from the Nishnebotena to the St. François-from the Desmoines to the Neosho-and in his trail have followed charred walls, bloodstained fields and desolate homes.

When the circumstances by which we were surrounded are considered, it must be acknowledged that the State responded nobly to my call; and to you, who left all the comforts of home, and for six long months have been enduring all the hardships, dangers, and sufferings of a soldier's life, too much praise and credit cannot be given. Patiently have you borne the burning rays of the summer's sun, the beating storm, chilling blasts and sickening hunger pains; and nobly have you stood upon the battle-field, amid showering balls, bursting bombs, and charging horse. Yea, more than this, you have dared the burning fever, the feeble pulse, and risked the solitary grave, with all of a patriot's faith and hope.

These things have you done, my brave soldiers, but our work is not complete yet, for war, with its horrors and train of suffering, still hovers over our beloved State. We are fighting for liberty, equality, and independence, and can never leave the field while the foot of an enemy shall be left to pollute our soil. Every thing on earth that renders life valuable and dear to freemen is at stake, and none but the basest slave and craven coward can yield in such a contest. Not so with the enemy. We seek not his subjugation, his country, or his home. He can quit the field, retire to his home, and thereby give peace and happiness to a bleeding and suffering country. He can by these means at once close the unrelenting crusade which he is now waging against us.

Our enemies in the State, though impudently and arrogantly asserting that a majority of the people are on their side, have by their own conduct given most indubitable evidence that all their claims are false, or that they themselves are too cowardly to fight their own battles.

Are there any so blind among them as not to see that the predominant feeling in the State is with the South? Do they not know that an overwhelming majority of the people will never submit to the rule of an abolition despotism? Are they not aware that the usurpations of their defunct convention are almost universally condemned by the people? If all these things are not well known to them, why did the convention, at its recent sitting, rescind their ordinance of a former session, submitting their highhanded usurpations to a vote of the people for ratification? They know, and everybody knows, that the people would have put their seal of condemnation, in thunder tones, upon all their unholy deeds, had the opportunity been afforded them.

Why, if they have the majority, did they import regiment after regiment, brigade after brigade, general after general, from the ranks of Lincoln's hired hordes in the North to fight their battles in Missouri? Our friends from the South were never invited into Missouri until the Lincoln Government had quartered their Hessian troops all over the State. These troops thus quartered in our midst have been met upon every field, with few exceptions, by Missouri's

sons alone, and with almost unvaried success. | piring, and many may desire to return to their Now, when we have the assistance of the rich homes. It is natural you should desire to do and powerful Southern Confederacy, with all so; but let me beg you not now to turn back her vast resources, and her gallant sons to stand from the work you have so nobly begun; do by our sides, what must be the result? If any not now fail when the eyes of the whole country among us have hitherto entertained the idea are upon you; do not lose your glorious repu that Missouri can be conquered, let them at tation for want of a little more patience; do once and forever banish the delusion from their not let the princely heritage of Missouri be lost minds. to you and your children, when a few more weeks or days of perseverance may win it for you. Let me, therefore, entreat you to embrace the opportunity which is now offered you to volunteer in the service of that great young government, the Southern Confederacyone of the brilliant stars of which is our own loved Missouri-and fight under that bright flag which has yet known no defeat.

By your own strong arms, and willing hearts, and dauntless courage, you have passed successfully through the darkest hour and greatest peril which can possibly attend the unholy crusade now being waged against you. Our enemies must have been brought to know that a bloody revenge must and will follow a continuance of our persecution. It cannot be supposed that a large majority of our people are to be driven from their homes and firesides, and forced to surrender up the graves of their fathers and their children to Northern invaders. This can never be done as long as a man can be found or an arm shall be left to strike a blow. Over-present members of the Missouri State Guard whelming numbers may sometimes force us to retreat; circumstances may occasionally cause us to fall back; but, as certain as God reigns in heaven, we will return again and again, until the last man shall have perished, or we shall have reclaimed our homes.

I have said, and now repeat it, that our enemies can, at any moment, leave the field in safety, and retire to their homes, whereas we can never lay down our arms without dishonor while an enemy shall pollute our soil with his unhallowed tread. Honor and patriotism alike forbid it. The memories of the past and the hopes of the future equally forbid it. The question for Missouri to determine is now resolved into this single proposition: Shall she be the Empire State of the glorious Southern Confederacy, the bright star and peer of Virginia, in the Southern constellation, or shall she ignominiously submit to the abolition yoke of Northern fanaticism-conquered, humbled and disgraced-forced to remain under a Government made tyrannical by fanaticism, disgraced by its rulers, and contemptible in the eyes of the world?

But it is useless now to argue the interest or policy of the State; our enemies have chosen to submit them both to the arbitrament of the sword, and by the sword they must be settled. There is no reason why we should shrink from the contest. The Missouri State Guard, almost single-handed, have fought the armies of all the Western States for more than six months with unparalleled success. Their victories at Cole Camp, at Carthage, at Oak Hills, Fort Scott, Lexington, Fredericktown, and Belmont, cannot fail to inspire the country with renewed zeal, energy, and courage. These noble and heroic deeds have passed into history, and will form the brightest page of the crisis through which our country is passing.

That the bond of union between Missouri and her Southern sisters may be more perfect, and that encouragement be given our men, and that system and unity of purpose exist which insures success, it has been determined that the

shall have the liberty to reorganize under the laws of the Southern Confederacy-that our Southern brothers may have the privilege of supplying our wants and paying our troops, while we fight our battles, which are also theirs. Do not let the frosts of winter deter you from embracing the opportunity. Do not fail to remember those patriotic sires who wintered at Valley Forge-let their bright example encourage you the cause is the same-'tis liberty and equality for which we fight. You have no homes to which you can safely go—the Ilessian and the Jayhawker go wherever the army is not, and you will but put on the shackles of serfdom whenever you lay down your arms, even though it be but temporarily. I know your patriotism-you have proved it. I know your bravery-the world has seen it. I know your endurance-the cheerfulness with which you have borne your hardships have demonstrated it-then I pray you, maintain your reputation but a little while longer, and Missouri will be regenerated and redeemed.

To my fellow-citizens who have not yet joined the army, I have now a word to say. Can you longer delay? Can there be yet one lingering ray of hope in your hearts that the once glorions Union can ever be reconstructed or reunited? Can you expect to remain as quiet spectators, tilling your fields and attending to your private speculations, while fifty thousand of your brave brothers are on the "War Path"? Do you not know that absence from the field but prolongs the war, and that you are at all times liable to depredations from either party? Come out, then, like men. Remember that "he who is not for us is against us!" You know as well as I that the people of Missouri are Southern people-that their sympathies, their hopes, and their interests are with the South. Then I call upon you in the name of My brave soldiers, now in the field, the six our noble State, now struggling for independmonths for which you were called is now ex-ence, to come out and help your brothers who

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