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encounters. Today (3d) we experienced the same difficulty in getting the artillery on, and had to press a number of oxen for the purpose. After two halts for the column to close up, our advance proceeded to Columbia. They were met by detachments from three regiments, (45th Ohio, 2d Ohio, and 1st Kentucky,) said to be under command of Col. Wolford. A brief engagement followed, in which we drove the enemy in great haste through the town, capturing six prisoners, killing two, among them Capt Carter, and wounding three. Our loss was two killed and two wounded, among them Capt. Cassel, a most dashing and daring officer, wounded in the thigh. Our men behaved badly at Columbia, breaking open a store and plundering it. I ordered the men to return the goods, and made all the reparation in my power. These outrages are very disgraceful, and are usually perpetrated by men accompanying the army simply for plunder. They are not worth a d — D, and are a disgrace to both armies. Passed thro
Provost Marshal then shook hands with them and told the men to bid each other farewell. This done, he stepped down from the scaffold. Just at 1 o'clock the trap fell, and Joseph Ford and John K Ould, of the 10th Regiment Ohio Volunteers, were launched into eternity. It was a solemn scene--one calculated to have a warning impression upon all who witnessed it. The fighting in Gen. Lee's retreat — the engagement at Amissville. The Yankee letter writers thus describe the whipping that Carter's Michigan cavalry brigade got near Amissville, Fauquier, while on their way to close up the gaps and prevent Lee's "escape" The engagement took place on the 24th ult: The 5th Michigan were in advance. The enemy's pickets were met within half a mile of the cross roads, when the advance guard was dismounted and deployed as skirmishers, and one section of Pennington's battery, under Lieut. Clark, was placed in position on a creed at the left of the road, supported by the 1st Michigan, Ma