Numbers 2. Return of Casualties in the Union forces engaged at Secessionville, James Island, S. C., June 16, 1862.

[Compiled from nominal lists of casualties, returns, &c.]

Killed. Wounded.

Command. Officers. Enlisted Officers. Enlisted

men. men.

7th Connecticut 2 7 1 68

1st Massachusetts .... .... .... 3

Cavalry

(detachment).

28th Massachusetts .... 8 2 48

8th Michigan 2 46 10 110

3rd New Hampshire 1 8 5 88

1st New York .... 1 .... 2

Engineers

(detachment)

46th New York 1 5 2 16

79th New York 1 8 5 62

45th Pennsylvania .... .... .... 1

97th Pennsylvania .... .... .... 2

100th Pennsylvania 1 8 2 31

3rd Rhode Island 1 7 1 28

Heavy Artillery

(detachment).

9 98 28 459

Captured of missing.

Command. Office Enlist Aggrega Remark.

rs. ed te

men.

7th .... 4 82 Captain Edwin S.

Connecticut Hitchcock and

Lieutenant Thomas

Hootom killed.

1st .... .... 3

Massachusetts

Cavalry

(detachment)

28th 1 8 67

Massachusetts

8th Michigan 1 15 184 Captain Benjamin B.

Church and Simon C.

Guild killed.

3rd New .... 2 104 Captain Ralph

Hampshire Carlton killed.

1st New York .... .... 3

Engineers

(detachment)

46th New York .... 9 33 Lieutenant Ferdinand

Sheet killed.

79th New York .... 34 110 Lieutenant James

Kinnear died of

wounds June 18.

45th .... .... 1

Pennsylvania

97th .... 1 3

Pennsylvania

100th .... 6 48 Lieutenant Samuel J.

Pennsylvania Morrow killed.

3rd Rhode .... 8 45 Lieutenant Erasmus

Island Heavy S. Bartholomew died

Artillery of wounds June 17.

(detachment).

2 87 683

NOTE. - Of the number reported wounded, 3 officers and 40 men fell into the hands of the Confederates.

No. 3. Report of Brigadier General Henry W. Benham, U. S. Army, commanding Northern District, Department of the South.

HDQRS. NORTHERN DIST., DEPT. OF THE SOUTH,
Left bank of the Stono, Grimball's Plantation, June 16, 1862.

GENERAL: You will recollect that in our last intercourse upon the subject, before you left the Stono River, upon the 11th instant, you approved of my representations for the security of our present camps here on James Island; that it was indispensable that we should destroy or capture the fort and floating battery of the enemy at Secessionville. For this there appeared no alternative, as these batteries covered with their fire the whole of the position and camps of General Stenens on our right, and as these were the only or the lower positions that secured a footing upon the main portion of James Island and a direct route on firm land to Fort Johnson, which, when required, gave us the command of the city and harbor of Charleston.

There was, therefore, constructed within the last four or five days a battery of two Parrott and one James gun near the point in front of General Stevens' command. This opened fire upon the fort and hulk