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PILOT KNOB, MO., October 22, 1864.
Brigadier-General EWING:
Captain Leeper left here with ten men on Wednesday and went to Lesterville; there joined Lieutenant Kelley with thirty men of the Second and Third Missouri State Militia. On Thursday went down Black River to the mouth of Sinking Creek; thence across to Logan's Creek. At Logan's Creek came up behind Colonel Pollack, with fifty men; followed him four miles; came up with him, charged and killed 10 men and scattered the balance. Pollock was headed south. The scout then went down Black River fourteen miles south of Patterson. Heard of several small squads of rebels, and killed 4 more; thence returned to Pilot Knob by way of Patterson. Berryman is said to be at Ponder's Mill, on Little Black River, on direct road from here to Pocahontas, eighty miles from this place. Three hundred rebels said to be there. Colonel Pollock is recruiting a regiment and Ponder's Mill is his rendezvous. Thirty or forty rebels at Poplar Bluff, county seat of Butler County. Telegraph poles all up between here and Patterson. Wire down considerable. Captain Leeper picket up twenty-three men of Forty-seventh Regiment. I will send their names to-morrow.
H. H. WILLIAMS,
Major and Aide-de-Camp.