DRAIN FEVER.



our regiment to the river and helped him to cross. His forces
were much scattered, and many were captured.
  "April 8th. Cluke returned to-day from Kentucky; the two
companies that went from this regiment were much injured.
What is left reported to-day. Captain Terrill and Lieutenant
Maupin both severely wounded at the Mt. Sterling fight, and left
behind.
  "April 29th. River being fordable, the enemy crossed in
heavy force both at Mill Springs acid mouth of Greasy Creek.
Tucker met them on Mill Spring road, and I met them on Greasy
Creek road; Chenault with part of the regiment remained at
Monticello. The enemy was in large force, and we were com-
pelled to evacuate Monticello at eleven o'clock to-night, and fell
back in the direction of Travisville. Finding on the 1st day of
May that the enemy was not pressing us, we returned to Mon-
ticello, and skirmished heavily with him; reinforcements to the
enemy having arrived, we were compelled to fall back to the
Obie River."
  The " brain fever," to which the writer alluded, was a very
singular disease, The patient attacked with it suffered with a
terrible pain in the back of the head and along the spine; the
extremities soon became cold, and the patient sank into torpor.
It was generally fatal in a few hours. I recollect to have heard
of no recovery from it.
  As has already been mentioned, Colonel Cluke was dispatched
to Central Kentucky on the 4th of February. The force under
his command, in all seven hundred and fifty efectives, was his
own regiment, the Eighth Kentucky, under the immediate com-
mand of Major Robert S. Bullock, seventy-eight men of the
Ninth Kentucky and two companies of the Eleventh, under com-
mand of Lieut.-Colonel Robert G. Stoner-entitled the First Bat-
talion; and two Companies C and I, of the Third Kentucky, and
Company A, of the Second Kentucky, under command of Major
Theophilus Steele-styled the Second Battalion.  The two
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