Numbers 2.

Report of Colonel Edwin A. Parrott, First Ohio Infantry.

HDQRS. FIRST Regiment OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY,
In Camp, October 9, 1862.

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to submit the following report of the skirmish had with the enemy this morning by the troops under my command at Dog Walk:

As my regiment left camp the general commanding apprised me that our rear was threatened by the enemy and ordered me to march back on the road until I overtook the Nineteenth U. S. Infantry, previously sent out. About half a mile from camp I came up with our troops on the road to Lawrenceburg. Major King, Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, had his battalion drawn up in an open field, where he commanded the road; Major Carpenter, Nineteenth U. S. Infantry, was to his left and in the road, which at that point makes an abrupt turn. Being the ranking officer present, I posted the First Ohio behind the crest of a ridge in the skirt of woods to the rear of the open ground and ordered the battalions of regulars to fall back across the field and form on the same line and to the right of the First Ohio. In the mean time Lieutenant Guenther had come up with a section of Battery H, Fifth U. S. Artillery.

Just as our line was formed the enemy appeared, marching by the flank up the hill in front of where I had found Major King's command. Lieutenant Guenther, having got one of his pieces in position, opened with such effect as to check the progress of the enemy and cause him to fall back under cover of the hill. From this position the enemy advanced a strong line of skirmishers. To oppose these I deployed forward a company from each battalion of the regulars; Company C, Captain Thruston, and part of Company B, Lieutenant Kuhlmann, First Ohio. The skirmishers became engaged at once and very warmly.

Major Drake at this time reported to me with the Forty-ninth Ohio Volunteers, and was sent to a position on the right and deflected at nearly a right angle to Major King, and was ordered to cover his front and right flank with skirmishers. I have no report from him, but believe there was no firing on his part of the line.

The guns of Lieutenant Guenther commanded the road in front of our center so as to check any advance along it, and the enemy's main attack was directed against our left.

The skirmish line in front of the First Ohio was strongly attacked and at one time driven a short distance from the hill on which it was posted, but being re-enforced, rallied and in turn drove the enemy back. For nearly four hours the firing here was strong and steady, and when the enemy had been driven from here he appears to have fallen back altogether and to have given up the attack, as the firing was not resumed until our troops had again taken up the march toward Mackville.

The section of Lieutenant Guenther's battery was handled with the usual vigor and skill of that accomplished officer, and was very effective in checking the advance of the enemy and in driving him from a dwelling house, under cover of which he was making the most severe fire on our line of skirmishers.

I must particularly commend Captain Thruston and Lieutenant Kuhlmann, of the First Ohio, who bore the brunt of the enemy's attack.

The firing began a little after 8 a.m. and the enemy was finally