No. 1.-report of Col. William H. H. Taylor, Fifth Ohio Cavalry.
Hdqrs. Fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Third Brig., First Div., Army West Tennessee, April 3, 1862.
General: I respectfully beg to report that, in obedience to your orders, I proceeded from this camp at midnight with about 400 men of this regiment in the direction of Corinth.
Being without guides, and the night so dark, after having marched some 4 miles we halted until near daybreak.
About a mile and a half beyond the house of Mr. Chambers we came upon the enemy's pickets, 9 in number, upon whom the advance guard immediately charged, wounding 1 rebel and making another prisoner.
The prisoner's name is Lammon, and a private in the First Alabama Cavalry.
We chased the rebels some distance in the direction of Greer's, and after obtaining a guide discovered that 15 of the enemy's cavalry were posted within a mile and a half of Greer's house.
Marching in that direction, we met a gentleman calling himself Dr. Parker, whom we had seen two hours previously at the house of Chambers, when, after asking his services as a guide, pleaded ignorance of the surrounding country and want of a horse, while after our departure he had saddled his horse and ridden some 3 miles, and upon the evidence of a woman living near the picket post he certainly had given information to the rebels of our approach.
I accordingly arrested him, and have brought him to camp for your examination.
Finding no trace of the fugitive rebels, I ordered my command back to camp, arriving here at 9 a. m. I learned that at Monterey the rebels have three regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, and a battery of artillery.
They are also in force with cavalry on the other side of Lick Creek.
I have the honor to remain, your obedient servant,
W. I. H. Taylor, Colonel Fifth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. Brig. Gen. William T. Sherman, Commanding First Division, Army of West Tennessee.