No. 19.

Report of Col. William B. Hazen, Forty-first Ohio Infantry, commanding Nineteenth Brigade, Fourth Division, Second Army Corps.

HDQRS. NINETEENTH BRIGADE, ARMY OF THE OHIO, October -, 1862.

At daylight on the morning of the 8th of October, 1862, the Nineteenth Brigade, Army of the Ohio, under my command, consisting of the Forty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Sixth Regiment Kentucky Volunteers, Twenty-seventh Regiment Kentucky Volunteers, One hundred and tenth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, and Battery F, First Regiment Ohio Volunteers-artillery, under command of Captain Cockerill, the whole numbering 2,350 men, moved forward from camp on Rolling Fork, 2 miles from Haysville, toward Perryville. About 9.30 a. m. we arrived at a point within 3 miles of Perryville, where we were halted and ordered to deploy in line of battle. At 10 o'clock the deployment of my brigade was completed in the following order: The Forty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Twenty-seventh Regiment Kentucky Volunteers, and Ninth Indiana Volunteers, covered by skirmishers from their respective commands, formed the first line. The One hundred and tenth Illinois Volunteers, 150 yards in rear, formed the second line. The Sixth Kentucky Volunteers was held in reserve 150 yards distant from the second line. The battery occupied the high ground upon my right near the Tenth Brigade. Upon my left was formed the Twenty-second Brigade, under command of General Cruft.

My command remained in its position with little of note transpiring save occasional shots by my skirmishers till about 1 o'clock p. m., when a party of the enemy's dismounted cavalry having advanced and taken possession of a farm-house and out-buildings and opened a brisk fire therefrom, my skirmishers of the Forty-first Ohio Regiment and a detachment of Colonel Wolford's cavalry advanced and dislodged them. A section of Captain Cockerill's battery was then brought forward and opened on the enemy's cavalry. They soon disappeared in the woods.

At sunset my brigade was moved to the right sufficiently to occupy the high ground previously occupied by the Tenth Brigade. Here my command bivouacked in line of battle.

About 9 a. m. of the following morning the Nineteenth Brigade was ordered forward in line of battle. It advanced to Walker's Springs, in the suburbs of Perryville, where we encamped, the enemy having retreated the night previous.

It is proper to express the keen disappointment of the members of the brigade at not having had an opportunity to engage the enemy at this point.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. B. HAZEN,

Colonel Forty-first Ohio Volunteers, Commanding Brigade.

Capt. H. ATKINSON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.