did their whole duty. Some failed, and among them I regret to report Col. J. R. Taylor, of the Fiftieth Ohio. He, though on the field and in sight of his men, was of no service to them. The first position that I saw him in was lying on his face, crouching behind a stump, and twice subsequently I saw him far to the rear of his regiment, while his men were in line of battle, apparently trying to rally some half a dozen stragglers.

I annex a statement of killed, wounded, and missing, amounting to near twenty per cent. of the force engaged.*

The loss of our general, crushing as it is to this young division, and falling as he did so early in the fight, will be felt more deeply by many of his brother commanders, whose friends he had been and whose friends they were. But none will miss him more or mourn his death more sincerely than I, who have been so near him during this unhappy war.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

PERCIVAL P. OLDERSHAW,

Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.

Capt. JOHN A. CAMPBELL, A. A. A. G., First Army Corps.

No. 15.

Report of Capt. William P. Anderson, U. S. Army, Assistant Adjutant-General, Thirty-third Brigade.

HDQRS. THIRTY-THIRD BRIGADE, TENTH DIVISION, FIRST CORPS, ARMY OF THE OHIO, October 10, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken in the action of the 8th instant by the Thirty-third Brigade, commanded by the late Brigadier General W. R. Terrill:

The One hundred and fifth Ohio Volunteers, Eightieth and One hundred and twenty-third Illinois, a detachment of the Seventh and Thirty-second Kentucky Volunteers and Third Tennessee Volunteers, under command of Colonel Garrard, of the Third Kentucky Volunteers, and Parsons' eight-gun battery (made up of detachments from the regiments of the brigade), arrived upon the scene of action about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 8th instant. The One hundred and first Indiana Volunteers was not present, having been sent that morning as a guard to a train to Springfield.

A short time after its arrival General Terrill was ordered by General Jackson to occupy a hill upon the extreme left of the line. General Terrill immediately rode forward to survey the position, directing the brigade to follow. During the time occupied in marching from the place where the general left the brigade to the position we occupied several messages were sent me by him to push forward with it as rapidly as possible. The distance was probably three-quarters of a mile. The One hundred and twenty-third Illinois Volunteers, being the advance regiment, arrived upon the ground first. It was marching by the flank right in front, and the rebels at the time could be seen within 200 yards advancing to occupy the same ground. The One hundred and twenty-third was immediately brought to face the enemy. The position of the parties unluckily threw the rear rank in front, which produced much

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*Embodied in revised statement, p. 1034.

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