Colonel Lyons.
Fort Donelson, June 9, 1863.—All quiet on the Cumberland. It is raining some tonight. Mr. Hillman, a wealthy iron manufacturer on the river below Canton, stays with us tonight. My duties keep me very busy nearly all the time.
The Nevada arrived today, bringing back Dr. Horton, Bardwell and Haley. Haley is much better. His family are seventy or eighty miles above Cairo. Captain McConnell has received his commission as Colonel of the 71st Ohio. The officers of the 83d have their commissions also.
Major Bond’s expedition returned with between fifty and one hundred horses and mules.
