tally wounded, and Captain [J. W.] Hubbard, [C. B.] Simonton, [H. C.] Irby, [J. L.] Hall, and [H. A.] Rogers left the field severely wounded, Captain Rogers, however, returning and doing good service throughout the actin. The conduct of all these officers cannot be too highly mentioned.

My horse being shot at this point I was compelled to leave the lines for a few minutes. In the mean time the regiment carried this four gun battery, and advancing through the open wood lot in which it was planted, under a fire of grape and canister which our oldest veterans had never seen equaled, they pressed on all unmindful of the carnage surrounding them, and gained the crest of an elevation in a corn field, where, in addition to the musketry fire in our front and the grape and canister shots that fell like hail from a third battery to our right, planted on a hill in an old stubble field, a most murderous fire was poured into our flank from a thicket on our left. Our line pressed on, being within 50 yards of the last-named battery, when we were ordered to fall back, being relieved by General Stewart's (Second) brigade, which then advanced. It was impossible to communicate the order to all of my men, and a large majority continued to fight with the relieving brigade, remaining in the advanced line until the fire on the right wing entirely ceased.

Throughout the action the men behaved themselves as became the heroes of Shiloh, ever advancing, ever cheering, and the command forward was entirely unnecessary, as at all times the men in line repeated the command without orders. It was an exception to see any of the men taking advantage of trees or other kind of shelter; the majority never lying down, but erect, advanced with the determination not carry the field or never leave it. Their conduct and that of the officers of my command was most gallant, and it would be invidious to make distinctions where credit justly belongs to so many.

We lost, killed dead on the field, 30; wounded, 120 (10 or 12 of whom have since died), and 8 missing.

Respectfully submitted.

GEO. W. KELSOE,

Major, Commanding Ninth Tennessee Regiment.

Captain THOMAS H. MALONE, Assistant Adjutant-General.

Numbers 36.

Report of Lieutenant Colonel W. Frierson, Twenty-seventh Tennessee Infantry.

OCTOBER 26, 1862.

SIR: In accordance with orders from Brigadier-General Maney I hereby beg leave to submit the following report of the part taken by the regiment (Twenty-seventh Tennessee) under my command during the late engagement with the enemy near Perryville, Ky.:

I regret that it was not my fortune to observe in person the movement of the regiment and conduct of the men during the entire engagement, but the effects of the explosion of a shell near my head incapacitated me entirely for duty after the expulsion of the enemy from the open field in which the first battery was planted and the lane beyond. I will therefore complete the report with information received from Major Allen, in command.