January 28, 1865 – Action at Athens JANUARY 28, 1865.-Action at Athens, Tenn. REPORTS. No. 1.-Lieut. George W. Ross, Seventh Tennessee Mounted Infantry. No. 2.-Capt. Thomas A. Stevenson, Second Ohio Heavy Artillery. No. 1. Report of Lieut. George W. Ross, Seventh Tennessee Mounted Infantry. ATHENS, January 29, 1865—3.30 p. m. GEN.: We were attacked yesterday by 300 rebels of Vaughn’s, Wheeler’s, and bushwhacker commands and repulsed them from town, but they captured some twenty or twenty-five our of men, including Maj. John McGaughey. They retreated from town in the evening and remained all night seven miles from here, and rumor says they are going to make another attack in connection with about the same force that came to Madisonville yesterday. We have not the horses to follow them, there and if we only had two pieces of artillery we could have killed or captured half of them, as they would not come in range of either the court-house or our fortifications. If you have them to spare we would be pleased to have two companies of the Second Ohio Heavy and two pieces cannon; them we are all right here, but we will have to have cavalry to follow them and capture them. They burnt one stable and one outhouse and robbed all the houses in the outskirts of town. I am, very respectfully, yours, GEO. W. ROSS, Lieut. and Regt. Quartermaster. KNOXVILLE, TENN., January 29, 1865. Lieut. GEORGE W. ROSS, Quartermaster, Athens, Tenn.: Your dispatch received. I congratulate you upon your success, but regret very much the capture of Maj. McGaughey. What were the casualties to the enemy, and among our forces? DAVIS TILLSON, Brig.-Gen. of Volunteers. ATHENS, January 29, 1865—7 p. m. Brig. Gen. D. TILLSON: We killed 12 or 15 and they took their wounded, some 30 or 35, off with them; some of them very badly. Our loss is some 15 or 20 prisoners and mules killed. GEO. W. ROSS, Lieut. and Regimental Quartermaster. No. 2. Report of Capt. Thomas A. Stevenson, Second Ohio Heavy Artillery.