Report of officers and men of Sears' brigade, &c.-Continued.

Names. Rank. Company. Regiment. Remarks.

Jacob D. Kersh. Private. G 39th Missi

ssippi.

J. P. Hodges. Corporal. I do. Killed.

J. D. Jones. Private. I do. Do.

R. Crisswell. do. I do.

E. Dockery. do. I do.

J. T. Hodges. do. I do. Killed.

J. Neely. do. I do.

W. D. Coney. Second li K do.

eutenant.

B. F. Elzey. Sergeant. K do.

Respectfully submitted.

J. W. BENOIT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

NEAR NASHVILLE, TENN., December 14, 1864.

[First indorsement.]

Respectfully forwarded.

R. H. SHOTWELL,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding Brigade.

[Second indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS FRENCH'S DIVISION, December 14, 1864.

Respectfully transmitted.

These gallant men merit honorable mention; they were foremost amidst the forlorn hope.

C. W. SEARS,
Brigadier-General Commanding Division.

Numbers 246. Reports of Major General Edward C. Walthall, C. S. Army, commanding division and rear guard of infantry, of operations November 20, 1864-January 8, 1865.

HDQRS. WALTHALL'S DIVISION, STEWART'S CORPS, Verona, Miss., January 14, 1865.

I respectfully submit the following report of the operations of my command from the 18th of July, 1864, till the close of the campaign in Tennessee:*

At this point [South Florence] on 20th [November] we crossed the Tennessee River on a pontoon bridge and went on with the corps by a route intermediate between Lawrenceburg and Waynesborough, over roads so bad that it was almost impossible for the artillery to move at all, the teams being very poor and greatly exhausted from constant and excessive service. Until we struck the old Nashville road heavy details (sometimes one, and often two regiments) were required to move with

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*For portions of report here omitted, see Vol. XXXVIII, Part III, p. 924, and Vol. XXXIX, Part I, p. 825.

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