Troops of the 13th and 19th Army Corps. On the 29th, Brig.-Gen. W. H. Emory, commanding the two corps, while at Morganza, learned that Confederates were crossing the Atchafalaya. On the morning of the 30th he despatched a detachment of the I3th corps, and a battery from the 19th corps, about 7,000 men, under Gen. M. K. Lawler and about 1,700 cavalry under Col. Davis, to disperse them and destroy their means of crossing. He also asked a naval officer at Morganza to send two gunboats into the Atchafalaya if he deemed it prudent to do so. The enemy was reported to have crossed at Morgan's ferry, the day before, with 3,000 to 7,000 men and two pieces of artillery. Lawler was instructed to move to the junction of the Fordoche and Morgan's ferry roads and to attack the enemy if he should be found there. Only 300 or 400 Confederates were there and at Lawler's approach they retreated toward Livonia. On the Morgan's ferry road at the Fordoche, Davis dispersed a party of 50, taking 1 prisoner. Chrysler's cavalry brigade reconnoitered on the Morgan's ferry road and found no foe on that side of the river, but found a sawmill in operation on the opposite side and at a ferry 3 miles above it 5 flat-boats, each large enough to carry 8 to 10 men and horses. He met with no opposition in approaching the ferry, but in leaving it received an ineffective running fire from a small force of the enemy, concealed by the levee on the other shore. Lawler determined to return to Morganza via Livonia and the False river road. At the Fordoche bridge about 200 Confederates, mostly Texans, were found apparently in position and threw three or four shells at Davis' cavalry skirmishers. A section of Norris' battery silenced their gun, and a cavalry advance, immediately afterward, put them to flight down the road toward Livonia, leaving a lieutenant and 3 soldiers dead and several men wounded. The Federals camped at Livonia at 9 p. m. On the way there after dark, Gen. McGinnis' command was fired on by Confederates concealed in the brush beyond Bayou Fordoche. Capt. Pan of the 24th Ia. was killed and 8 men were wounded. One return volley dispersed the attacking party. The False river road was bridgeless and partially inundated and Lawler had to retrace his steps. On the 31st Davis moved forward 4 or 5 miles on the Rosedale road and at 5 a. m. marched to the Morgan's ferry road, where he encamped at 10 o'clock. With the 1st La., 2nd N. Y., and 87th Ill., he followed the enemy down Grossetete and Maringouin bayous to a camp in a dense canebrake, where the Confederates were routed and a quantity of clothing and commissary stores captured. On the morning of the 1st Col. Sharpe with his brigade, 500 cavalry under Davis, and 4 pieces of artillery destroyed the sawmill above mentioned. As he returned he destroyed the bridges between Morgan's ferry and the Fordoche. Next morning about 10 o'clock Davis started down the Fordoche and Grossetete bayous. That night he camped at Woolfolk's plantation, driving off a small Confederate picket. On the morning of the 3d he crossed the Rosedale drawbridge over the Grossetete, followed the plank road and arrived near Lobdell's landing on the Mississippi at 2 p. m. He camped that night on the Mississippi 4 or 5 miles below False river. Reaching the latter stream about 8 a. m. on the 4th, he sent Lieut.-Col. Crebs with about 300 men to reconnoiter one side of the river, and Col. Chrysler with an equal force to reconnoiter the other. The latter had gone some 6 or 8 miles when he encountered and charged on 50 to 60 of McNelly's scouts. His loss in killed and wounded was 3; Confederates 11. Davis' command returned to headquarters on the morning of the 5th.