ir first battle in the same hour — yet fought with a courage and determination that could not be surpassed.
In many instances separated from their officers, and from each other, each one fought desperately on his own account, until overpowered by numbers.
The two lieutenants collected about eighteen men at the depot, threw themselves in a brick house, which they defended to the last extremity.
There was not an instance of flinching or cowardice in any boy in the company.
When we left Covington we were informed by the authorities that sent us, that ample provision would be forwarded for our company; also serviceable arms supplied us. Instead of this, what little sleep our boys had was taken on the bare ground, without shelter or even a blanket to cover them.
As for food, they had none, only what they bought or begged.
On our arrival at Cynthiana, we were well cared for by Col. Landrum, Acting Commissary Ware, and the citizens generally, who all seemed anxious to show kindness t
ter, and two beyond that place.
Since Morgan left, thirteen of his dead have been taken from the river near Cynthiana, where they were thrown for concealment.
Morgan himself admitted, at Paris, a loss here of twenty-four killed and seventy-eight wounded, and that of seventeen engagements, participated in by him since the beginning of the war, the affair at Cynthiana was much the fiercest and most desperate.
I append also a list of rebel wounded left in Cynthiana:
Geo. W. Clarke, Simpson Co., Ky., chest and arm, dangerous; T. N. Pitts, Georgia, arm; W. L. Richardson, Tennessee, side and arm; W. C. Borin, Logan Co., Ky., shoulder; George T. Arnold, Paris, Ky., right thigh and shoulder, dangerous; Vesy Price, lungs, dangerous; J. H. Estes, Georgia, thigh; A. Kinchlow, Glasgow, Ky., chest, dangerous; James Moore, Louisiana, thigh;----Calhoun, South--Carolina, thigh;----Casey, thigh; James Smith, chest; Ladoga Cornelli, Grant Co., Ky., thigh; Henry Elden, Lexington, Ky., arm.
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amuel Plunkett, do.; Lewis Wolff, Newport, Ky., Home Guards; Wm. S. Shipman, do.; Thomas Hartburn, Cincinnati, Pendleton Guards.
wounded.--Capt. S. G. Rogers, Co. I, Eighteenth Kentucky, slightly; Thos. S. Duval, Home Guards, arm amputated; Hector Reed, Home Guards, left side; J. W. Minor, Seventh Kentucky cavalry, left lung; Jacob Carver, Co. E, Eighteenth Kentucky, thigh amputated; John Scott, Seventh Kentucky cavalry, thigh; Chas. Tait, Thirty-fourth Ohio, both thighs; Rev. Geo. Morrison,way the majority of his wounded.
He left eighteen in care of our surgeons, several of them supposed to be mortally wounded.
I send our list of wounded:
Captain Rogers, Eighteenth Kentucky, leg, slightly.
T. S. Duvall, arm amputated.
H. Reed, Home Guard, left side.
J. W. Minor, Home Guard, left lung.
J. Carver, thigh amputated.
Geo. Scott, Seventh Kentucky cavalry, wounded, thigh.
Charles Tate, Thirty-fourth Ohio, both thighs.
Rev. Mr. Morrison, Home Guard, ankle.
le band from the rear, about a hundred and twenty-five yards distant.
It was here that Jacob Carver, company E, Eighteenth Kentucky, fell, severely wounded — as brave a man as ever pulled trigger — and I received a slight wound in the ankle.
It was here, too, that the lamented Thomas Ware, United States Commissioner for this county, one of the oldest citizens of Cynthiana, was instantly killed, nobly and bravely doing his duty as a patriot.
Here, too, was killed Jesse Current, young Thomas Rankins, Captain Lafe Wilson, young Hartburn of Cincinnati, and others; besides many, including F. L. St. Thomas, John Scott, Captain McClintock, John McClintock, Thomas Barry of Cincinnati, and Thos. J. Vimont, who fell severely wounded.
In consequence of the terrific storm of balls, and as but few of my men were left, among whom were Wm. W. Trimble and J. S. Frizell, who was also wounded, of this place, others not remembered, I ordered a retreat.
In the mean time Major William O. Smith had
