strong, I can find but two officers and a nigger cook. Of the artillery, 800 men, none has reported on this side of the river. General Flood is dead. I have assumed command of the expeditionary force, but owing to the heavy losses have deemed it advisable to contract my line of supplies as rapidly as possible. I shall push southward to-morrow morning early. The purposes of the campaign have been as yet but partly accomplished. _From Major-General Dolliver Billows, C.S.A., to the Confederate Secretary of War._ BUHAC, KENTUCKY, February 5, 1862. ... But during the 2d they had, unknown to us, been reinforced by fifty thousand cavalry, and being apprised of our movement by a spy, this vast body was drawn up in the darkness at Jayhawk, and as the head of our column reached that point at about 11 P.M., fell upon it with astonishing fury, destroying the division of General Buxter in an instant. General Baumschank's brigade of artillery, which was in the rear, may have escaped--I did not wait to see, but withdrew my division to the river at a point several miles above the ford, and at daylight ferried it across on two fence rails lashed together with a suspender. Its losses, from an effective strength of 11,200, are 11,199. General Buxter is dead. I am changing my base to Mobile, Alabama. _From Brigadier-General Schneddeker Baumschank, C.S.A., to the Confederate Secretary of War._ IODINE, KENTUCKY, February 6, 1862. ... Yoost den somdings occur, I know nod vot it vos--somdings mackneefcent, but it vas nod vor--und I finds meinselluf, afder leedle viles, in dis blace, midout a hors und mit no men und goons. Sheneral Peelows is deadt, You will blease be so goot as to resign me--I vights no more in a dam gontry vere I gets vipped und knows nod how it vos done. _Resolutions of Congress_, February 15, 1862. _Resolved_, That the thanks of Congress are due, and hereby tendered, to Brigadier-General Jupiter Doke and the gallant men under his command for their unparalleled feat of attacking--themselves only 2000 strong--an army of 25,000 men and utterly overthrowing it, killing 5327, making prisoners of 19,003, of whom more than half were wounded, taking 32 guns, 20,000 stand of small arms and, in short, the enemy's entire equipment. _Resolved_, That for this unexampled victory the President be requested to designate a day of thanksgiving and public celebration of religious rites in the various churches. _Resolved_, That he be requested, in further commemoration of the great event, and in reward of the gallant spirits whose deeds have added such imperishable lustre to the American arms, to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the following officer: One major-general. _Statement of Mr. Hannibal Alcazar Peyton, of Jayhawk, Kentucky._