of Baird and Carter. To avoid too lengthy a report many incidents of interest have been omitted.

If affords me great pleasure to speak of the admirable bearing of my entire command, officers and soldiers, during that most difficult and trying march of 219 miles. It was worthy of all praise and receives my sincere gratitude. Especial credit is due to Brigadier-Generals Spears, Baird, and Carter, and to Colonel De Courcy; to Lieutenant-Colonel Gallup and Capts. W. F. Patterson, M. C. Adams; to Lieutenant W. P. Craighill and Lieutenant Burroughs, engineers; to Captain Foster, chief of artillery, and Lieutenant Burdick, acting ordnance officer, and to Lieutenant-Colonel Ridgell and Lieutenant Reeder, Third Kentucky Volunteers. And my cordial thanks and acknowledgments are due to my personal staff, Captain C. O. Joline, assistant adjutant-general; Lieutenants Saunders and Medary, aides-de-camp; Lieutenant Montgomery, actin aide-de-camp, and Lieutenant H. G. Fisher, chief of signal corps. In mentioning the names of these officers there is no distinction intended to the prejudice of any, for all have behaved nobly.

It is proper that I should make particular mention of the services of Brigadier-General Baird during our occupancy of the Gap for the zeal displayed by him in aiding Lieutenant Craighill in executing his plans for the defense of that important post; not can I close the report without respectfully calling the attention of the commanding general to the important services rendered me by Lieutenant W. P. Craighill, of the Engineer Corps. He is an officer of distinguished merit, and is thoroughly informed on all the subjects connected with the art of war. He would make an able chief of any staff or fill with high credit any other position to which he may be assigned, and deserves a much higher grade than he now holds.

The evacuation of Cumberland Gap was dictated by a solemn sense of public city. My command captured it without the loss of a single life, and, though a place of great strength, it can again be taken, should such be the policy of the Government; but the first step toward that end should be the construction of a good military road from Lexington to Cumberland Ford.

I respectfully call your attention to the reports of brigade and corps commanders.

I have the honor to be, major, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEORGE W. MORGAN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

Major N. H. McLEAN,

Asst. Adjt. General and Chief of Staff, Cincinnati, Ohio.

HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES AT PORTLAND, OHIO, October 16, 1862.

MAJOR: In the hurry of preparing my report of the march of my command from Cumberland Gap I inadvertently neglected to refer to the meritorious services of Lieutenant-Colonel Ridgell, Third Kentucky, and Captain Sydney S. Lyon, acting topographical engineer, which I now take pleasure in doing. Also the valuable and highly creditable services of Dr. B. Cloak, acting medical director, and the corps of surgeons