NEW YORK, April 28 [1862]

A letter from Edisto Island, S. C. 18th, reports a brilliant affair on St. John’s Island resulting in the total route of 200 rebel cavalry by about 60 of our men. The rebels lost about 50 in killed and wounded. No one on our side was killed.

The combined movement ordered by Gen. Fremont against the guerillas in Webster county, has proved eminently successful. Lieut. Lawson, with one detachment employed in this service, has returned, and others are returning. In a severe running fight Lawson Killed 17 guerillas, and took 10 prisoners.

The town of Addison – a small place, the only one in the [new] country – being deserted, was burned. It had been a guerilla haunt. A formidable organization in Braxton, Webster, and adjoining counties, in entirely destroyed, the leaders proposing to surrender. It is understood that the Guerillas taken will be promptly shot.

Gen. Milroy’s scouts, on the 23d inst., attacked the rear guard of the enemy, ten miles east of the Shenandoah mountains, the boundary of this department. They killed one Lieutenant and two men, and captured one Lieut. And one man. None of our men were hurt.

The rebel conscripts are deserting in large numbers and returning home.

Reports from Staunton say that the enemy’s sick and wounded, and large trains of soldiers, are passing eastward by rail.

Snow fell 18 inches deep at Monterey on the 24th inst.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 29, 1862, p. 1