[Inclosure.]

List of Casualties* during the action at Brown's Ferry, October 27, 1863.

Regiment. Killed. Wounded. Missing. Total.

33rd Ohio Volunteer 1 2

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3

Infantry

41st Ohio Volunteer 1 2

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3

Infantry

124th Ohio Volunteer

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4

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4

Infantry

5th Kentucky Volunteer 1

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1

Infantry

23rd Kentucky Volunteer 1 9

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10

Infantry

Total 4 17

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No. 5.

Report of Colonel Timothy R. Stanley, Eighteenth Ohio Infantry.

HDQRS. EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEERS,
Chattanooga, Tennessee, October 28, 1863.

LIEUTENANT:I have the honor to report the part taken by the forces under my command during the recent expedition to Brown's Ferry, 9 miles by the river below this place.

On the 25th instant I was ordered by General Smith to have ready fifty pontoon boats and one ferry-flat to transport and ferry troops; to organize parties to man them; to superintend, and have all ready to move the following day. To do this required the building of some ten additional boats and the making of one hundred and fifty oars and row-locks, all which was being done under the direction of Captain Fox, of the Michigan Mechanics and Engineers. I detailed 100 men from my own regiment, under command of Captains Grosvenor and Cable, and requested details of river men from other regiments, which were furnished as follows: From the Thirty-third Ohio and Second Ohio, under command of Lieutenant McNeal 88 men; from the Thirty-sixth Ohio, under command of Lieutenant Haddow, and from the Ninety-second Ohio, under command of Lieutenant Stephenson, each 44 men. I directed boats' crews to consist of 1 corporal and 4 men, and each two boats to be under command of a sergeant, each detail to be under command of a commissioned officer. I afterward added a large flat, in which I carried 60 men. The pontoons each carried 25 men besides the boats' crews, making in the whole fleet fifty-two boats and 1,600 men.

It was nearly night of the 26th before the boats were all ready, and far into the night before we were supplied with oars, and had it not been for the energy of the Michigan Mechanics and Engineers we would not have been supplied at all. The boats were, however, loaded, and at the appointed hour, 3 o'clock in the morning of the 27th, we left the shore and rowed to the other side of the river, passing through the opening made for us in the pontoon bridge. Keeping near the right bank, we floated down stream until the rear had well closed up, when we pulled steadily and silently under the shadow of the trees near the right bank, until opposite the point of Lookout Mountain, where the current, setting strongly toward the mountain, threw us some distance from shore, but we quickly, however, regained

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*Nominal list omitted.

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