the flying enemy. The loss on the Union side was twenty killed and forty wounded. On the 12th Colonel Pegram, with six hundred rebel soldiers, surrendered unconditionally to. General McClellan.

While these events were taking place, General Garnett at Laurel Hill, hearing of the approach of McClellan to Beverly, left Laurel Hill in great haste for Cheat Mountain Pass, in hopes to pass Beverly before McClellan should reach it. On the morning of the 12th, the evacuation was discovered, and the Ninth Indiana of Morris's division immediately advanced in pursuit. The rebels, when within three miles of Beverly, met fugitives from Rich Mountain, and returned toward Laurel Hill, whence Morris's force was approaching, thus putting them between two fires. They therefore took the road to the right, which goes through Leedsville to the Cheat River. General Morris, who had been in front of Laurel Hill, pursued a mile or two beyond Leedsville, and then, 11 o'clock, P. M., halted until 3 o'clock, a. M., when the pursuit was resumed, amid incessant rain. The enemy, meantime, struck the Cheat River, and pursued the mountain road down the valley. Our advance, composed of the Fourteenth Ohio, and the Seventh and Ninth Indiana regiments, about two thousand men, pushed on, guided through the mountain gullies by the tents, camp-furniture, provisions, and knapsacks thrown from the wagons of the rebels to facilitate their flight. Our troops forded Cheat River four times, and finally, about one o'clock, came up with the enemy's rear-guard. The Fourteenth Ohio advanced rapidly to the ford in which the enemy's wagons were standing, when, suddenly, the rebels, about four thousand strong, opened a furious fire on them with small arms and two rifled cannon from the bluff on the opposite side of the river, about two hundred yards distant, where they had been concealed.

The firing was too high, cutting the trees above the heads of the men. The Fourteenth returned it with spirit. Meanwhile, two pieces of the Federal artillery came up and opened on the rebels. The Ninth Indiana then advanced to support the Fourteenth Ohio's left, while the Seventh Indiana crossed the river between the two fires, and came in on the enemy's right flank. The latter soon fled in great disorder, leaving their finest piece of artillery.

On the 13th of July, at the next ford (Carricksford), a quarter of a mile further on, General Garnett attempted to rally his forces, when the Seventh Indiana came up in hot pursuit, and another brisk engagement ensued. General Garnett was finally shot dead, when his army fled in confusion towards St. George, to escape into Northern Virginia. The Seventh Indiana regiment pursued them a mile or two, but as the men were much exhausted with their forced march of twenty miles, with but little rest from the march of the previous day, General Morris refused to let them pursue further. Among the fruits of the victory was the capture of the rebel camp at Laurel Hill, with a large amount of tents, camp equipage, baggage-wagons, a field camp-chest, supposed to contain all their money, two regimental flags, and a large number of rebel prisoners. The losses in these four engagements were as follows: