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and deserve particular notice of praise, and I would especially recommend that they be allowed to have Perryville inscribed on their banner.

Very respectfully,

DANL. W. ADAMS,

Brigadier General, Commanding 2nd Brigadier, 2nd Div., Left Wing, A. Miss.

Captain W. G. BARTH, A. A. G., Second Division, A. Miss.

KNOXVILLE, TENN., October 25, 1862.

SIR: In making up yesterday hurriedly the report of the part taken by the Second Brigade, under my command in the battle of Perryville, Ky., I omitted to mention the names of the officers in command of the different regiments, which I desire now to state.

The Thirteenth Louisiana was commanded by its colonel, Colonel R. L. Gibson; the Sixteenth by its commanding officer, Colonel D. C. Gober; the Twentieth, in the forepart of the action, by its commanding officer, Colonel August Reichard, who for some time previous had been suffering from bronchitis, and during the engagement, from loss of voice, and having his horse severely wounded, had to relinquish the command to Lieutenant Colonel Leon von Zinken; the Twenty-fifth Louisiana by Colonel S. W. Fisk, its commanding officer, and the Battalion of Sharpshooters by Major Austion. The praises bestowed in my report for gallant service on the field fell under my immediate observation in the cases of Colonel R. L. Gibson, Major Austin, and Captain Tracy, and the staff officers named, that is, Major Higgins and Captain McCall. The report of the others named was derived from the regimental reports. The regimental commanders named deserve credit for the manner in which they moved and kept their commands together, the Thirteenth Louisiana, Colonel Gibson, deserve special [mention] for the promptness with which they moved forward, the alacrity and rapidity with which they pressed the enemy until halted by my command. I will recommend Colonel Gibson for skill and valor to be brigadier-general in a separate communication.

Hoping that this may be received as a part of the report forwarded on yesterday, I remain, very respectfully,

DANL. W. ADAMS.

Captain W. G. BARTH, Assistant Adjutant-General.

Numbers 39.

Report of Brigadier General Bushrod R. Johnson, C. S. Army, commanding Third Brigade, Third Division.

HDQRS. THIRD Brigadier, THIRD DIV., ARMY OF THE MISS.,
Camp near Knoxville, Tenn., October 23, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by the Third Brigade, Third Division, Army of the Mississippi under my command, at the battle near Perryville, Ky., on the 8th instant:

The Third Brigade on that day consisted of the Fifth Confederate Regiment, commanded by Colonel [J. A.] Smith; Seventeenth Tennessee,