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OCTOBER 8, 1862.-Battle of Perryville, or Chaplin Hills, Ky.

Report of Colonel John C. Starkweather, First Wisconsin Infantry, commanding Twenty-eighth Brigade, Third Division.

ON BATTLE-FIELD,

Chaplin Hills, October 11, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to report that the Twenty-eighth Brigade, composed of the Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Twenty-fourth Illinois Volunteers, First and Twenty-first Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, commanded, respectively, by Colonel H. A. Hambright, Captain [August] Mauff (Colonel Mihalotzy being absent, sick), Lieutenant Colonel George B. Bingham, and Colonel Benjamin J. Sweet; First Kentucky Artillery, Captain D. C. Stone, and Fourth Indiana Artillery, Captain A. K. Bush, left Maxville, [Mackville], under orders, on the 8th instant, the Twenty-first Wisconsin marching in the rear as guard to the division ammunition train, the Seventeenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, Colonel John H. McHenry, jr., having been sent to Springfield as guard to division supply train, and arrived on the field of battle at about 1.30 p.m., having marched 12 miles, about 3 miles thereof being through fields, woods, &c. Finding the troops already engaged well on the right, center, and left, and thinking the extreme left position most accessible, and, from appearances, one that should be held at all hazards, I placed my command at once in position facing the enemy's right (countermarching a portion of my brigade for such purpose), the Twenty-fourth Illinois and Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania forming the right wing, to be supported by the First Wisconsin and Twenty-first Wisconsin, when the last-mentioned regiment should arrive, and holding my two batteries to act as the disposition of the enemy might require. General [D. S.] Donelson's brigade at this moment engaged the Twenty-fourth Illinois and Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania on the right, but were driven from the field, after most desperate fighting. While this engagement was progressing, I placed, by your order, Bush's battery on the extreme left, Stone's battery next on its right, the First Wisconsin to the rear of Bush, to support him, and the Twenty-first Wisconsin, which had arrived (excepting two companies acting as flankers to the ammunition train), to the front of the two batteries, in a corn-field at the foot of the hill, upon which artillery was placed, forming it at once in line of battle. This disposition of my forces was hardly complete before General Maney's brigade attacked me in front, assisted by a battery, and General Donelson's brigade again attacked on the extreme right, the enemy at the same time placing a bat-