From Gen. Fremont’s Department – Skirmish with the Rebels

WHEELING, April 13, 1862

To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Sec’y of War:

A dispatch just received from General Milroy at Monterey, under date of yesterday, states as follows: "The rebels, about 1,000 strong, with two cavalry companies and two pieces of artillery, attacked my pickets this morning about 10 o'clock, and drove them in some 2 miles. I sent out re-enforcements, consisting of two companies 75th Ohio, two companies 2d Virginia, two 25th Ohio, and two of 32d Ohio, one gun of Captain Hyman's battery, and one company of cavalry, all under Major Webster. The skirmishing was brisk for a short time, but the rebels were put to flight with considerable loss. The casualties on our side were 3 men of the 75th badly wounded. The men behaved nobly."

J. C. FREMONT,
Major-General, Commanding

– Published in The Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio, Thursday, April 24, 1862, p. 2