The total engaged was about 1,600. The loss in killed [and wounded] was:

Command Killed Wounded Total

36th Mississippi Regiment 1 21 22

37th Mississippi Regiment 5 27 32

38th Mississippi Regiment 4 4 8

37th Alabama Regiment 12 43 55

Total 22 95 117

For the character of the wounds, &c., reference is made to the report of the brigade surgeon.

For the special part born by the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Mississippi Regiments reference is made to the report of the commanders of those regiments, herewith forwarded.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

Your obedient servant,

JNO. D. MARTIN,

Colonel, Commanding.

Captain HARDEMAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

Numbers 48.

Report of Lieutenant J. W. McDonald, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Fourth Brigade.

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH BRIGADE,
Camp Little, September 24, 1862.

SIR: Below you will find the number of men of the Fourth Brigade engaged in the battle near Iuka, including officers:

37th Mississippi.............................. 453

36th Mississippi.............................. 326

38th Mississippi.............................. 322

37th Alabama.................................. 304

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1,405

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. W. McDONALD,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

Captain SCHAUMBURG.

Numbers 49.

Report of Colonel Robert McLain, Thirty-seventh Mississippi Infantry.

HDQRS. THIRTY-SEVENTH Regiment MISSISSIPPI VOLS.,
Near Baldwyn, Miss., September 24, 1862.

SIR: In obedience to orders I have the honor to submit the following