lery and musketry. I ordered my men to lie on their faces. I waited patiently for an order to advance, which was received at 3 p. m., when I was ordered by Captain Grover, your acting assistant adjutant-general, to take a position in front in a ravine about parallel to our last position and 300 feet in advance. I lay in this position for an hour, when, finding that the enemy were about turning my left flank, I fell back without orders to the right of Loomis' battery, which was posted on the hill about 400 feet to the rear of the house on the hill. This movement was made under the most terrible fire of musketry and artillery. At this time the firing was the fiercest of the day. After remaining in this position about five minutes I ordered an advance to a position behind a fence and poured in about 20 rounds of ammunition upon the advancing enemy, which drove them back in about thirty minutes. By order of Major-General McCook, at 6 p. m. I was ordered to take position in the woods on the right of the cleared fields, where I bivouacked for the night. Finding my regiment in General Steedman's lines I reported to him, and being nearly out of ammunition, I made requisition for a supply and received it.

The loss in my regiment was 2 killed and 20 wounded and 6 taken prisoners while carrying the wounded from the field of battle after night. I also took 1 lieutenant and 5 privates prisoners, whom I turned over to General Steedman.

I take pleasure in saying that all of my officers and men behaved gallantly during the action, and particularly so my adjutant, H. B. Du Barry.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. HUMPHREYS,

Colonel Eighty-eighth Indiana Volunteers.

Colonel POPE,

Comdg. Seventeenth Brig., Third Div., Army of the Ohio.

No. 13.

Report of Col. John Beatty, Third Ohio Infantry.

SIR: I herewith present a report of the operations of the regiment which I have the honor to command during the engagement of the 8th instant:

At 11 o'clock a. m. my regiment was ordered to take the advance of the brigade to which it belongs, and proceeded to the crest of the hill overlooking a branch of Chaplin Creek, when the enemy in front opened upon us from a battery and we were ordered to retire to the foot of the hill, some hundreds of yards in the rear. There were formed in line of battle and remained for more than an hour while the batteries were replying to those of the enemy.

About 2 p. m. the enemy were seen advancing toward our position, and my regiment was ordered to the crest of the hill. A battery, known as the Washington Battery, at once opened upon us, and I ordered my men to lie down and wait the approach of the enemy's infantry. The latter advanced under cover of a house upon the other side of the hill, and reaching a point 150 yards instant, deployed behind a stone fence, which was hidden from us by standing corn.

At this time my left wing rested upon a lane known as the

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