Haddow and Stephenson worked with skill and earnestness, and the success of the whole expedition depended considerably on their work.

I have no casualties to report.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. B. TURCHIN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

Captain PRESTON C. F. WEST,

Aide-de-Camp.

ITINERARY.*

The regiment of which the brigade is now composed were in camp at Chattanooga from October 1 to 9.

October 9, by Paragraph XIV, Special Field Orders, Numbers 269, from headquarters Department of the Cumberland, the Eleventh, Thirty-sixth, Eighty-ninth, and Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry (being the Third Brigade, Fourth Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, old organization, excepting the Eighteenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry and the Twenty-first Indiana Volunteer Battery), and the Seventeenth and Thirty-first Ohio and the Eighty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry (being the First Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, old organization, excepting the Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the Fourth Michigan Volunteer Battery), were announced as composing the First Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, Brigadier General J. B. Turchin commanding. Brigade remained in camp at Chattanooga from October 9 to 26.

October 26, brigade was detailed, in conjunction with Hazen's brigade, of Palmer's division, to cross the Tennessee River at Brown's Ferry, construct a pontoon bridge, and build a tete-de-pont. Two officers and 88 men of the Thirty-sixth and Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry were detached to navigate the pontoons, which were to be floated from Chattanooga to Brown's Ferry during the night. The remainder of the brigade crossed the Tennessee at Chattanooga at 6.30 p.m., and bivouacked in the woods near Brown's Ferry. A landing was effected on the southern shore at 4.30 a.m. October 27, and the rebel force (two regiments) driven away. Hazen's brigade crossed first, occupying the ridge on the left of the ferry, this brigade following and occupying the ridge on the right of the ferry.

From October 27 to 31, brigade remained at Brown's Ferry, cutting timber, digging intrenchments, and building roads.

Numbers 37.

Record of a Court of Inquiry and accompanying documents.

PROCEEDINGS OF A COURT OF INQUIRY WHICH CONVENED AT THE HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH ARMY CORPS, LOOKOUT VALLEY, Tennessee, BY VIRTUE OF THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL ORDER:

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND,

Numbers 23.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, January 23, 1864.

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XI. At the request of Major General Carl Schurz, commanding Third Division, Eleventh Corps, and Colonel F. Hecker, commanding Third

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*From return for October.

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