upon to mourn the loss of such spirits as Jackson, Terrill, Webster, Jouett, Campbell, Berryhill, Herrell, and others, who fell upon this bloody field.

A list of killed and wounded of the Third and Tenth Divisions is herewith inclosed.*

All of which is respectfully submitted.

A. McD. McCOOK,

Major-General, Commanding First Corps.

Col. J. B. FRY,

Chief of Staff.

No. 5.

Report of Brig. Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau, U. S. Army, commanding Third Division.

HDQRS. THIRD DIVISION, ARMY OF THE OHIO, In the Field, October 17, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by the Third Division, Army of the Ohio, in the battle of Chaplin Hills, fought on the 8th instant:

On the morning of the 8th, on the march, General McCook showed me an order of General Buell, in which it was said he should move cautiously on approaching Perryville, as the enemy would probably make resistance in that vicinity.

When near Chaplin Hills battle ground, and perhaps 3 miles from Perryville, the report of artillery to our right and front was heard, and General McCook ordered me to advance my cavalry and infantry in reconnaissance, leaving the artillery on an eminence in the road. I moved on with the infantry, preceded by six companies of the Second Kentucky Cavalry [Col. Buckner Board], and when near the field of battle Colonel Board reported the enemy in sight. I halted the column and sent back for General McCook, and he and I rode forward to the front, examined the ground, and chosed a line of battle, to be adopted if the enemy advanced upon us, and soon after moved up to Russell's house, on the hill overlooking the field, and there halted the head of the column. While there the artillery [two pieces] of Captain Harris' [Hotchkiss'] battery, with Gay's cavalry, continued to fire, and small-arms were also heard.

Gay addressed a note to me, saying he had been pursuing the enemy all the morning, was pressing him then, and much needed a regiment of infantry to support his pieces. I ordered the Forty-second Indiana Regiment to do so, and rode forward to his pieces and found him and Captain Harris [Hotchkiss] there. The enemy was just disappearing in the woods far to the front, and out of the range of Harris' [Hotchkiss'] ordinary brass pieces. I then ordered up Loomis, with two of his Parrott guns, and he shelled the woods, the enemy now and then appearing, until finally he was no longer to be seen, and the firing was ordered to be stopped. Everything indicated that the enemy had retired and it was so believed. General McCook rode off to see General Buell, understood to be 2 or 3 miles to our right.

Waiting perhaps an hour, I concluded to resume the march to Chaplin Creek, then probably a mile to our front, to get water for my men,

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*Embodied in revised statement, p.1033.

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