My loss is as follows:

Casualties. Killed. Wounded. Missing. Aggregate.

Officers.. ... 2 58 60

Enlisted men.. 2 14 626 642

Total.. 2 16 684 702

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

HARRY T. HAYS,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

Major JOHN W. DANIEL.

[Inclosure.]

Return of Casualties on Hays' brigade at Rappahannock Bridge, November 7.

Killed. Wounded. Missing.

Command. Office Men. Offic Men. Offic Men. Aggr

rs. ers. ers. egat

e.

5th ... ... ... .. 9 114 123

Louisiana

6th ... ... ... 1 7 82 90

Louisiana

7th ... ... ... ... 21 159 180

Louisiana

8th ... ... 1 8 13 149 171

Louisiana

9th ... 2 1 5 8 122 138

Louisiana

Total ... 2 2 14 58 626 702

Numbers 46. Report of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel McD. Tate, Sixth North Carolina Infantry.

HEADQUARTERS HOKE'S BRIGADE,
Camp near Somerville Ford, November 10, 1863.

GENERAL: I have the honor to report the facts, as required in General Early's note to you, so far as relates to the action of this brigade, in the conflict of 7th instant, at Rappahannock Bridge.

About 2 p. m. on the 7th, Colonel Godwin received orders to put his brigade under arms and march to Rappahannock Bridge. We moved out instantly and at the double-quick after passing Brandy Station. When the head of the column reached the rear of the battery on south side of the river, General Early ordered Colonel Godwin to file his brigade to the right around the hill, and cross the bridge and put his men in the rifle-pits on the left of hay's men. This was done under fire of the enemy's artillery and skirmishers, inflicting a loss of a number of killed and wounded, among them the adjutant (Lieutenant C. Mebane) of the Sixth North Carolina.

After getting into position (the Fifty-seventh North carolina on the right, Fifty-fourth North Carolina on extreme left, with the Sixth North Carolina in center), we opened fire of the enemy's skir-