and Robert Wilson, of Company H, are no more; they fell upon that fatal crest by Parsons' battery-the former dead, the latter mortally wounded. Braver or better men never lived; truer patriots never offered a holier sacrifice to their country's cause. On the same spot 29 enlisted men of my regiment gave their lives to the cause of constitutional liberty-each a precious offering on freedom's altar. God of the true and brave! these are thine; their country calls them no more. There too on that fatal spot were wounded no less than 130 of their gallant comrades.*

A. S. HALL,

One hundred and fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Comdg. Tenth Div., First A. C., Army of the Ohio.

Captain CAMPBELL, A. A. A. G., First Army Corps.

No. 17.

Report of Lieut. Ellis E. Kennon, Ninety-eighth Ohio Infantry, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Thirty-fourth Brigade.

NEAR CRAB ORCHARD, KY., October 18, 1862.

SIR: Owing to the death of Col. George Webster, commanding the Thirty-fourth Brigade of the Tenth Division of the Army of the Ohio, on the 8th instant, at Chaplin Heights, it becomes my duty to report to you the position and conduct of the brigade in that engagement.

The brigade arrived upon the battle-field about 1 p. m. and were by Colonel Webster immediately assigned position. The Nineteenth Indiana Battery, commanded by Captain Harris, occupied the crest of a hill. The country to the right and front of the battery being open, the enemy could not approach without being observed and receiving the fire of their guns. The Ninety-eighth Ohio, being under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Poorman, was ordered to move into position to the right of the Nineteenth Indiana Battery to assist in sustaining it, but owing to the nature of the ground it was found impossible for them to form in line of battle. The order was then modified, and the left wing was formed in the rear of the right wing, to be used as the peculiar circumstances of the attack might require. The Eightieth Indiana, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Brooks, occupied a position immediately to the rear and left of the Nineteenth Indiana Battery and to the left of the Ninety-eighth Ohio. The Fiftieth Ohio was first formed in the rear and to the left of the Nineteenth Indiana Battery, but remained in that position a very short time, and was, by order of Colonel Webster, reformed about 300 yards farther to the left, advancing to the crest of the hill in the woods near a small log cabin, with the exception, however, of two companies, which remained during the engagement lying to the left of the Ninety-eighth Ohio. These companies were under command of Captain Cook, and the officers and men deserve credit for the bravely and gallantry they exhibited upon the field.

The Fiftieth Ohio, for some reason, was not under the immediate supervision of its colonel, but was under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Strickland, assisted by Major Defrees, and continued to be under their command during the day. They both deserve credit.

The One hundred and twenty first Ohio was, by order of Colonel Webster, first formed in the rear of the Nineteenth Indiana Battery, to the

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*See revised statement, p. 1034.

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