It is due to Surgeon Fithian to say that he was unremitting in the discharge of his duties on the field during engagements, and that he shrank from no personal danger or exposure in ministering to the wounded and dying. He further reports good conduct on the part of all the regiment surgeons of the brigade.

It is impossible to state the number of prisoner captured by the enemy with accuracy. It is presumed, however, from concurrent recommend were taken prisoners and subsequently paroled. The remaining troops of both brigades were reorganized by me, under orders from Major-General Wright, at Lexington, and marched to this encampment.

In concluding this report it affords me pleasure to make honorable mention of the officers who acted upon my brigade staff, and to express my obligations to the gentlemen from civil life who volunteered their services and exposed their lives in the thickest of the battles. Captain Wickliffe Cooper, of General Nelson's staff, my acting assistant adjutant-general, bore himself gallantly throughout the engagements and rendered efficient service at all parts of the field. Lieutenant Reeder, of the Eighteenth Kentucky Volunteers, detailed as aide-de-camp, evinced a high degree of courage and coolness. Acting brigade quartermaster, Lieutenant J. T. Clark, of the Eighteenth Kentucky, obeyed orders-staid with his teams and stores, got his trains safely away, and thereby saved a large amount of Government property from the enemy. Messrs. Green Clay, of Madison County; Hartwell Boswell, L. P. Shaw, and Wharton M. Moore, of Lexington, and William Holloway and John Miller, of Richmond, volunteered their services as aides-de-camp, and acted throughout the day in that capacity upon my staff. Their bearing on the field was gallant in the extreme and coolness under fire admirable. They were constantly exposed to the enemy's bullets, but escaped unhurt, except Mr. Miller, who was mortally wounded in the second engagement and has since died-a martyr to his high-toned patriotism. Captains Kendrick, Stacy, Baldwin, and Horton, of Major-General Nelson's staff, joined my staff before the second engagement and conducted themselves handsomely on the field, rendering marked service in rallying and assuring the men.

With assurances of regard to Major-General Nelson, and the hope that he will soon recover from his wounds and be again able to take the field, I am, captain, yours, respectfully, &c.,

CHARLES CRUFT,

Brigadier-General, Commanding Second Brigade.

Captain J. EDWARD STACY,

A. A. G., Army of Kentucky.

No. 8.

Report of Lieutenant Luther F. Hale, Battery F, First Michigan Light Artillery.

CAMP GILBERT, Louisville, Ky., September 9, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to submit to you the following report of the casualties which occurred in and the part taken by Andrews' Michigan battery in the action at Richmond, Ky., August 30, 1862:

Enlisted men, killed, 2; wounded, 9; missing, 4.*

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*But see revised statement, p. 909.

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