of these facts, who came to my support in the most prompt and gallant manner, the Thirty-eighth Indiana at this time occupying ground some 200 yards in the rear of the battery.

From this time until 3.30 p. m. we fired canister as rapidly as the men were able to work the guns, when we were ordered by Major Cotter, chief of artillery on General McCook's staff, to find a new position, where we could use the balance of our canister with effect. We would have been unable to execute this order but for the gallant support of the Tenth Wisconsin, Tenth Ohio, and the Thirty-eighth Indiana. Major Cotter placed us in position on the right of the road, near the old straw-stack, where one of the enemy's shells struck one of the limber chests.

Abandoned this position by order of Major Cotter at 4 p. m. and took position a little in rear of the white house, next to the woods, in which the brigade was formed the next morning. Finding we could not reach the enemy from this point, we then took position on the crown of the hill, across and in the road, about 100 yards in rear of the white house. At this point we fired away the remainder of our canister and then withdrew.

At about dark we took position in battery and went into camp for the night on the slope of the next hill about 500 yards in rear of the headquarters of the Ninth Brigade.

We fired during the action 755 rounds. The command was composed on entering the fight of 90 men. We brought from the field all our wounded.

Respectfully, yours,

PETER SIMONSON,

Captain, Commanding.

Lieut. G. A. VANDEGRIFT, Actg. Assist. Adjt. Gen.

No. 12.

Report of Col. George Humphrey, Eighty-eighth Indiana Infantry, Seventeenth Brigade.

HDQRS. EIGHTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT INDIANA VOLS., Camp near Harrodsburg, Ky., October 12, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to make the following report of the part taken by the regiment under my command in the battle of Chaplin Hills on the 8th instant:

The regiment took up its line of march from the camp near Mackville at 5.30 a. m. and arrived at 10 a. m., after a fatiguing march of 7 miles without water, on the ground which was afterward the battle-field. I placed my regiment in line of battle on the left of the main road in a thick woods on the crest of a hill commanding they valley in front, the Third Ohio Volunteers on my left and the Fifteenth Kentucky on my right at right angles. After remaining in this position two hours I was ordered to move my regiment, by Major-General Rousseau, down to a position about 400 feet in front of the house on the hill. After remaining in this position under fire I moved back the regiment while under a severe fire in admirable order to a position on the right of the main road, commanding to cleared fields in front, my left resting on the house on the hill and my right resting in a valley at about an angle of 45 to the road. I remained in this position under a heavy fire of artil-