ing the Second Indiana, was foremost in the charge, and exhibited great coolness and courage. Captain Leabo, Second Indiana, had command of four companies of his regiment and handled them well, but was taken prisoner early in the action. Captain Starr, with his company (C), did good execution. Major Winfrey, Captain Duncan and his company, Lieutenants Cambell and Cheek, and Captain Carter and his company, all of the Fifth Kentucky, behaved well, and managed their troops with skill and proved themselves gallant men.

My loss was 30 killed, 50 wounded, and 75 taken prisoners. About 200 horses were killed or disabled in this action.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

R. W. JOHNSON,

Brigadier-General.

Colonel J. B. FRY. A. A. G., Chief of Staff, Huntsville, Ala.

Numbers 2.

Report of Colonel Edward M. McCook, Second Indiana Cavalry, of action August 21.

MURFREESBOROUGH, August 31, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to inclose the report of Lieutenant Colonel R. R. Stewart, commanding that portion of my regiment engaged in the fight with Morgan's rebel forces at Gallatin on the 21st instant. It is a plain and concise statement of facts, to which I would most respectfully call your attention.

At the time the last expedition in pursuit of Morgan started I was absent on special duty, but from the past good conduct of my regiment, as well as reports, official and unofficial, which I have carefully compared, I feel satisfied that none, either officers or men, in Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart's command were responsible for this disaster or should share its disgrace.

I have carefully preserved and examined the reports of company officers, and of course drew my conclusions concerning this fight from them. These conclusions differ so widely from the statements contained in a printed paper published in the Louisville Journal, purporting to be the official report of Brigadier-General Johnson, that I feel it to be my duty to respectfully request a court of inquiry, to convene at the earliest day practicable.

If my command or any of them have conducted themselves in a manner unworthy brave soldiers and true men I desire to know it, that their shame may be exposed; if otherwise, then simple justice demands that they shall be fully exculpated from any disgrace which may attach to this affair. If there has been cowardice or incompetency, or both combined, on the part of either officers or men, is it not due the gallant Army of the Ohio, upon which no stain has ever yet rested, that the responsibility should be fixed where it belongs?

I have the honor to inclose herewith a list of killed, wounded, and missing of my regiment in the engagement,* and should the general commanding deem copies of reports of company officers necessary to

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* Nominal list omitted shows 14 enlisted men killed; 2 officers and 40 enlisted men wounded, and 1 officer and 29 enlisted men missing.

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