find further orders. Also Colonel Charles Anderson, with a brigade of three infantry regiments, to proceed in the same direction, it being my intention to mass the troops, knowing that the enemy would not cross the Kentucky River while 16,000 men were on their flank. My anxiety was such that I started myself to see that the troops at Richmond moved in the proper direction and in order. Upon my arrival at Lancaster, at 9.30 a.m., I heard the artillery. I procured fresh horses and took the Richmond road, but was compelled to take only by a single member of my staff. I arrived on the field, 3 miles south of Richmond, at 2 p.m., and found the command in a disorganized retreat or rather a rout. With great exertion I rallied about 2,200 men, moved them to a strong position, where I was confident I could hold them in check until night, and then resume the retreat. The enemy attacked in front and on both flanks simultaneously with vigor. Our troops stood about three rounds, when, struck by a panic, they fled in utter disorder. I was left with my staff almost alone. The enemy's cavalry was now in our rear, and the panic at such height that it was a sheer impossibility to do anything. What the motive of General Manson was in bringing on an action under the circumstances, and marching 5 miles to do so, I will leave him to explain to you.

W. NELSON,

Major-General.

No. 3.

Return of Casualties in the Union forces.

[Compiled from nominal list of casualties, returns, &c.]

Killed. Wounded.

Command. Office Enlisted Office Enliste

rs. men. rs. d men.

General and staff officers -- --- 2 ---

12th Indiana Infantry -- 25 6 142

16th Indiana Infantry 1 24 4 116

55th Indiana Infantry 1 10 4 43

66th Indiana Infantry 2 21 5 63

69th Indiana Infantry 1 16 3 108

71st Indiana Infantry 3 26 3 88

6th Kentucky Cavalry -- --- -- 1

(battalion)

7th Kentucky Cavalry 1 4 -- 25

3rd Kentucky Infantry -- 1 1 13

18th Kentucky Infantry 3 36 7 104

Lanphere's Battery -- 1 -- 3

(improvised)

1st Michigan Light -- 6 -- 9

Artillery, Battery F

95th Ohio Infantry -- 24 6 88

3rd Tennessee Infantry -- --- -- ---

(battalion)

Total 12 194 41 803

Captured or missing.

Command. Officers Enlisted Aggregate.

. men.

General and staff officers 3 --- 5

12th Indiana Infantry 22 586 781

16th Indiana Infantry 21 374 540

55th Indiana Infantry 4 425 487

66th Indiana Infantry 10 506 607

69th Indiana Infantry 22 476 626

71st Indiana Infantry 23 570 713

6th Kentucky Cavalry 1 61 63

(battalion)

7th Kentucky Cavalry 5 233 268

3rd Kentucky Infantry 7 66 88

18th Kentucky Infantry 7 230 387

Lanphere's Battery 1 10 15

(improvised)

1st Michigan Light --- 54 69

Artillery, Battery F

95th Ohio Infantry 22 526 666

3rd Tennessee Infantry 11 27 38

(battalion)

Total 159 4,144 5,353

Officers killed.-Lieutenant Colonel Joel Wolfe, Sixteenth Indiana; Lieutenant William L. Thompson, Fifty-fifth Indiana; Lieuts. Charles H. Cornwell and Samuel P. Reid, Sixty-sixth Indiana; Lieutenant Alvin M. Cowing, Sixty-ninth Indiana; Lieutenant Colonel Melville D. Topping, Major William Conklin, and Lieutenant William O. Norris, Seventy-first Indiana; Major Charles T. Milward, Seventh Kentucky Cavalry; Captain Orin M. Lewis, Lieuts. James Dunlap and John W. Washburn, Eighteenth Kentucky.

Officers mortally wounded.-Colonel William H. Link, Lieuts. Henry S. Westcott and Caleb Day, Twelfth Indiana; Captain W. W. Culbertson, Eighteenth Kentucky.

NOTE.-To avoid counting them twice the wounded who fell into the enemy's hands are omitted from the column of "captured or missing." The whole number of prisoners was about 178 officers and 4,650 men.