not reached the top of the hill, when orders were brought to me from General Cheatham, by Captain M. Smith, chief of artillery, to advance rapidly, and was conducted by the latter to a position on the hill to the extreme right, and overlooking the enemy, who was then in a fighting attitude before our forces. I immediately opened and enfilading fire on them, at the distance of 250 or 300 yards, with canister, and continued it with shell and spherical case as the enemy retired. This continued until our forces had so far advanced as to be between our battery and the enemy's infantry, when we commenced replying to a battery of the enemy, which had annoyed us considerably, opening upon us with guns of heavier caliber than ours as soon as we commenced our firing. I continued this until I received orders from General Cheatham to cease firing, and our infantry advanced and took the battery opposing us. I then advanced the battery to a position farther to the front, to open on a battery which was firing on Captain Carnes' battery, when I received orders from General Cheatham to withdraw my battery to the rear.

After night, I received orders from Captain M. Smith to send my horses and limbers to the front, and withdraw some of the enemy's guns which had been captured, the enemy having taken off most of their limbers with their horses. I brought off all I could find (excepting two caissons, which were disabled), amounting to five 12-pounder Napoleon guns (brass), one 12-pounder howitzer gun (brass), and one 6-pounder Parrott gun (steel) with two limbers and two caissons, without limbers, filled with ammunition for the Napoleon guns. During the night, I exchanged my two 6-pounder guns for two of the Napoleon guns, together with the ammunition, and the next morning, on our leaving for Harrodsburg, my men, by order of Captain M. Smith, dismantled the guns which we were unable to take with us.

Our casualties consisted of 4 men wounded and 1 missing, and 1 horse killed and 3 wounded.

I take pleasure in bearing testimony to the zeal and gallantry displayed by the officers and men of the battery on the occasion.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. B. TURNER,

First Lieutenant, Commanding Battery.

Captain T. H. MALONE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

Report of Brigadier General St. John R. Liddell, C. S. Army, commanding First Brigade, Third Division.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE, THIRD DIVISION,
Knoxville, Tenn., October 24, 1862.

COLONEL: In obedience to the order of Major-General Hardee, on the morning of the 7th instant, I placed my brigade 1 mile in advance of our lines, on the right of the Springfield road leading from Perryville, on the crest of a hill, covered with some open woods, with ground rapidly sloping to the front and facing a skirt of woods on the opposite hill, beyond which the enemy were actively engaged with Colonel Wheeler's cavalry, and at the same time taking position. The interval between the woodlands of these hills was hardly exceeding 200 yards, with a small corn-field next to the road opposite my left and open ground on my right. At the base of the hills was a dry bed of a branch of Doctor's Fork. During the day the cavalry were skirmishing with the enemy, and the shells fell constantly within and beyond my lines.