The casualties of this command were: Thirty-fifth Ohio Volunteers, Col. F. Van Derveer commanding-Lieut. Joseph S. Claypoole and 3 men taken prisoners (since paroled for exchange); Ninth Ohio Volunteers, Lieut. Col. Charles Joseph, commanding-1 man severely wounded and 2 men taken prisoners (since paroled); Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteers, Col. K. G. Shryock commanding-2 men wounded, 1 severely; Eighteenth U. S. Infantry, Maj. F. Townsend commanding-3 men wounded, 1 severely; Second Minnesota Volunteers, Col. James George commanding-1 man taken prisoner; Company I, Fourth U. S. Artillery, Lieut. F. G. Smith commanding-1 man severely wounded and 1 man taken prisoner (since paroled); Lieut. Richard Schneider, serving on my staff, captured while conveying orders on the field (since paroled for exchange).

I avail myself of this opportunity to reassure you of my entire confidence in the officers and men of my command.

With esteem, respectfully, yours,

JAMES B. STEEDMAN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding Third Brigade.

Capt. J. EDWARD STACY, A. A. G., Third Corps, Army of the Ohio.

No. 24.

Report of Brigadier Gen. Robert B. Mitchell, U. S. Army, commanding Ninth Division, including skirmish October 7.

HDQRS. NINTH DIVISION, ARMY OF THE OHIO, Goodnight Spring, 2 1/2 miles from Perryville, Ky., October 9, 1862.

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by the Ninth Division in the engagement of the 7th and 8th instant, near Perryville, Ky.:

Upon the arrival of my column, about 2 p. m. of the 7th, at a point on the Springfield and Perryville turnpike about 5 miles from Perryville, I formed my brigades, under the direction of General Buell, on the right and left of the road, with the batteries in position and the men under cover. The Eighth Kansas, Lieutenant-Colonel Martin, and the Thirty-fifth Illinois, Lieutenant-Colonel Chandler, were advanced to the front in rear of a section of Captain Pinney's Fifth Wisconsin Battery, which, with the cavalry advance, had come upon the rebel outposts, and was then engaging a battery of the enemy. A little before sunset these regiments were advanced to the front of the battery and engaged the enemy till dark, when they fell back to their former position. The Eighty-first Indiana Volunteers, Major Woodbury, and Twenty-fifth Illinois, Lieutenant-Colonel McClelland, were thrown out as pickets upon the left and front.

At daylight on the morning of the 8th I sent forward a section of Captain Hotchkiss' Second Minnesota Battery to relieve the section of Captain Pinney's battery, which, under Lieutenant Hill, did such brilliant work the day before.

At 2 p. m. of the 8th, in obedience to orders received from Major-General Gilbert, commanding corps, I advanced my division on the road to a point designated by General Gilbert, where I formed my brigades as follows:

The Thirtieth Brigade, Colonel Gooding, Twenty-second Indiana Volunteers, commanding, composed of the Twenty-second Indiana Vol-