trenching tools, and in the engagement at Germanna, Morton's, Brandy, and Oak Hill, captured 3 commissioned officers and 60 prisoners of war.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JNO. BUFORD,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Commanding.

Lieutenant Colonel C. ROSS SMITH,

Chief of Staff.

Return to Casualties in the First Cavalry Division during the engagements October 9-19, 1863.

[As reported by General Buford.]

Killed. Wounded.

Command. Officers. Enlisted Officers. Enlisted

men. men.

Division staff. ... ... ... ...

First Brigade.

8th Illinois. ... 6 ... 14

12th Illinois. ... 2 ... 9

3rd Illinois. .... 1 ... 10

8th New York. 1 3 1 24

2nd U. S. ... 1 ... 2

Artillery,

Battery D.

Total First 1 13 1 59

Brigade.

Second Brigade.

4th New York. ... 1 ... 4

6th New York. ... 9 1 12

9th New York. ... 8 3 18

17th ... 1 3 6

Pennsylvania.

3rd West ... 3 ... ...

Virginia.

2nd U. S. ... .. .. 1

Artillery,

Battery L.

Total Second ... 22 7 41

Brigade.

Grand total. 1 35 8 100

Captured or missing.

Command. Officers. Enlisted Aggregate.

men.

Division staff. 1 ... 1

First Brigade.

8th Illinois. ... ... 20

12th Illinois. .. 4 15

3rd Illinois. ... 2 13

8th New York. ... 13 42

2nd U. S. ... ... 3

Artillery, Battery

D.

Total First .. 19 93

Brigade.

Second Brigade.

4th New York. ... 2 7

6th New York. *1 2 25

9th New York. 1 11 41

17th Pennsylvania. ... 3 13

3rd West Virginia. ... 6 9

2nd U. S. .. ... 1

Artillery, Battery

L.

Total Second 2 24 96

Brigade.

Grand total. 3 43 190

Numbers 79. Reports of Brigadier General Wesley Merritt, U. S. Army, commanding Reserve Brigade.

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY RESERVE BRIGADE,
Manassas Junction, Va., October 17, 1863-1 p. m.

COLONEL: Parties have been sent out on roads to Bristoe Station and Thoroughfare Gap, and they report strong forces in their front with artillery. I have ordered out re-enforcements and go myself, and will push them as far as possible. The impression is that the enemy is moving round toward our right (to Chantilly).

A prisoner has just been captured who belongs to the Second Virginia

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*Captain John Peirce, so reported, was killed in action.

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