"CAMP MORTON, NEAR BARDSTOWN, Feb. 26.

"To the Editors of the Louisville Journal:

"GENTLEMEN: Colonel Wolford and his regiment have at last found a resting place. No pickets out, no camp guard, yet restless and anxious to be on march to the South. This regiment has been on almost a continual scout for nearly six months past. They met the rebels first in an attempt to stop our arms at Lexington, and, headed by Colonel Bramlette, by one decisive stroke put down all armed interference there. They marched to Munday's landing, and by that movement showed the difficulty of escaping to Zollicoffer at the Cumberland Gap.

They hastened to Frankfort to secure that city and arsenal, and, headed by Colonel Wolford and with Bramlette's infantry, terrified the secesh of 'Sweet Owen' to silence. They were then dispatched to meet the advance of Zollicoffer's cavalry upon London, and when they reached that place the inhabitants had all fled, except one old lady, who came out clapping her hands and shouting, 'Glory to God, the country is saved! Here is Colonel Wolford and his cavalry.' The people soon returned, when he again fell back upon Camp Wildcat, and, in connection with Garrard's regiment, fortified that place. In a few days he had a heavy skirmish at London with a double number, and drove them back in terror. We had hardly time to return and rest our horses and men, when Zollicoffer marched up to storm Camp Wildcat.

We reached the works on Sabbath, and took the advance position with the 33d Indiana, and there about seven hundred men of these gallant regiments, with a few home guards, met the main attack of the enemy as they attempted to storm that point in order to shell our camp. Wolford's and Colonel Coburn's Indiana regiments, both on foot and side by side, mingled their kindred blood in that short, decisive conflict. The other regiments would have doubtless done as well, but these occupied the front and most exposed position.

The enemy feared the 'Old Wolf'

The enemy ever after were heard to say that they feared the 'Old Wolf' with his Sharp's-rifle boys. This regiment are nearly all mountain boys, farmers' sons, quiet and orderly in camp, befriended by the mountain people, and welcome in every house, and known over all Southeastern Kentucky. After, the Wildcat battle, all except two companies were sent to Somerset, and scouted down to Albany, and even over to Tennessee. Captain Morrison and his company were the first to pass into Tennessee of all the Union forces, when they broke up the secesh camp, McGinnis.

After clearing the counties of Wayne and Clinton three times, they were ordered back with Bramlette's and Hoskins's regiments to Somerset, and from there in a few days passed down to Columbia. From Columbia a part under Colonel Wolford returned to Waitesboro, and, after assisting to repel Zollicoffer, returned again to Columbia, where, after nearly four months' hard service, they were furnished proper clothing for the first time, and two months' pay. After this, Lieutenant-Colonel Letcher, with half (six companies) of the regiment, was ordered to the Big Sandy to assist in driving back Marshall's forces, and these companies will rejoin us again this week here. From the fact that this regiment has been divided into three divisions, and were the only cavalry in Southeastern Kentucky to bear dispatches, and often passed from one division to the other, some think they have no discipline or order, which is a secesh falsehood, and used by them because they wished to injure, and, if possible, get the regiment changed into infantry. But if they would know how this regiment is regarded by the Union citizens, let them go to those parts where they have been, and where all Union citizens welcomed them as their protectors and friends. Wolford and his regiment are more dreaded by the enemy in East Tennessee than all the rest, the prisoners tell us.

And Zollicoffer was in the continual habit of charging them, when he sent them out on reconnoissance from Mill Spring toward Green river, 'to keep a sharp lookout, or the Old Wolf would get them certain.' With only four companies he occupied camp Williams, within twenty-five miles of the whole force of Zollicoffer, for over a month, coming in almost daily conflicts with some of his pickets. His prisoners tell us they were awfully afraid of our pickets, as we carried such long-ranged, deadly guns. And when their forage trains came over toward Green river, the Union men would hide, and the women stand in the door and tell them how glad they were that they were going over there, 'for the Old Wolf would be sure to get them.' And under that apprehension they would often turn back or go some other course for forage.

They say they did not like to meet men who carried young cannons on their horses. They had heard their balls whistle at Wildcat, and did not wish to hear them again. They always reconnoitered in large force, and at every few miles inquired for Wolford's cavalry; and, we think, the secrecy of General Thomas's success was owing in part to their dread of meeting him. The two companies at Somerset never had much chance, as they were always met by five times their number when on picket, and they often met and fought ten times their own number, falling back generally in good order to the encampment.

"There has been hardly a battle or skirmish in all Eastern or Southeastern Kentucky but what some of this regiment were in it, fighting either on horseback or afoot, as they could do the best service. They do not, however, pretend to be a well-drilled regiment, nor are they all armed as regular cavalry. But in a kind of 'half-horse and half-alligator fight' they are hard to beat. Their companies are drilled in company drill, and, as companies, in your own graphic language, are 'h--l on a scout.' The Colonel is the idol of his men, and, as a quiet, plain, sensible, generous, Christian gentleman, is an example to all in like position. A lawyer by profession, and a soldier who, when his company (of which he was captain) was not received in the Mexican war, enlisted in another as a private and served with honor, he deserves the high position he holds in the service and in the people's affections. He and his brave boys did their duty in the battle at Logan's Fields and Mill Spring, as all know. In the advance on horses, and then with the gallant Indiana 10th and Kentucky 4th on foot, they fought on until the victory was complete.

"They claim no precedence over the other brave regiments in that battle, where all did their duty nobly and well. But it is a wonderful coincidence that these same cavalry boys, with another Indiana regiment, were again in the advance as at Wildcat, and thus, as brothers from sister States, cemented their love of the union with their blood. They fell side by side---they fill a common and a hallowed grave; and let Indiana and Kentucky, Ohio and Minnesota, remember their brave sons sleeping on the banks of the Cumberland, and let no prejudice jar the living who have so glorious a common heritage there.

KIRKWOOD.

"P.S. One of our companies has just returned from detached service in Clinton county. They report the cavalry of McHenry and Bledsoe as still stealing horses and committing outrages in that county. They had a skirmish with a party headed by Champ Ferguson, in which they killed one and mortally wounded three more, as we learned, and got six horses; one of ours only slightly wounded. The forces of Mill Spring, after their defeat, all fled home in utter confusion, and no company of all that army can be gathered together again.K."