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Morton's Ford, made by Lieutenant Roebling; also a nominal list* of casualties; also copies of the reports of Brigadier-General Caldwell, commanding First Division; Brigadier-General hays, commanding Third Division; Brigadier-General Webb, commanding Second Division; Brigadier-General Owen, commanding Third Brigade, Third Division; Colonel Carroll, commanding First Brigade, Third Division; Colonel Powers, commanding Second Brigade, Third Division; Lieutenant-Colonel Monroe, commanding Artillery Brigade.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

G. K. WARREN,

Major-General of Volunteers, Commanding.

General S. WILLIAMS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

ADDENDA.

Return of casualties in the Second Army Corps at Morton's Ford, February 6 and 7, 1864.

[Compiled from nominal list of casualties, returns, &c.]

Killed. Wounded.

Command. Officers Men. Officers Men.

. .

Second Division:

First Brigade:

19th Maine. . . . . . . . . . 2

Third Division:

Staff. . . . . . . 1 . . .

First Brigade:

14th Indiana. . . . 2 2 11

4th Ohio. . . . . . . . . . 17

8th Ohio. . . . . . . 2 . . .

7th West Virginia. . . . . . . 1 10

Second Brigade:

14th Connecticut. . . . 6 7 83

1st Delaware. . . . . . . . . . 6

12th New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . 11

10th New York . . . 1 . . . 2

Battalion.

108th New York. . . . . . . 1 6

Third Brigade:

39th New York. . . . 1 . . . 20

111th New York. . . . . . . . . . 3

126th New York. . . . 1 1 17

Artillery Brigade:

Pennsylvania Light, . . . . . . . . . 1

Battery F.

Total. . . . 11 15 189

Captured of missing.

Command. Officers. Men. Aggregate

.

Second Division:

First Brigade:

19th Maine. . . . . . . 2

Third Division:

Staff. . . . . . . 1

First Brigade:

14th Indiana. . . . . . . 15

4th Ohio. . . . . . . 17

8th Ohio. . . . . . . 2

7th West Virginia. . . . . . . 11

Second Brigade:

14th Connecticut. 1 18 115

1st Delaware. . . . 4 10

12th New Jersey. . . . . . . 11

10th New York Battalion. . . . . . . 3

108th New York. . . . . . . 7

Third Brigade:

39th New York. . . . 15 36

111th New York. . . . . . . 3

126th New York. . . . 2 21

Artillery Brigade:

Pennsylvania Light, . . . . . . 1

Battery F.

Total. 1 39 255

FEBRUARY 9, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER SECOND CORPS:

SIR: The major-general commanding directs me to express to you the great satisfaction he has felt at the prompt and handsome manner in which the Second Corps executed the duties assigned it in the reconnaissance of the 6th of 7th instant, and to express his regret at the severe loss it met with in the operation. +

Very respectfully, &c.,

A. A. HUMPHREYS,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

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*Embodied in Addenda, following.

+Complimentary dispatches also sent to commanding officers of the First and Third Army Corps.

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