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contemplated by his instructions, but the scarcity of provisions, the badnessof the roads, and the difficulty of crossing the river made progress on thatline impracticable, and shortly afterward Carter was ordered with his brigadeagainst Cumberland Gap and Thomas to rejoin Buell’s main column, and theEast Tennessee expedition, which Nelson had devised and McClellan hadstrongly urged and Thomas had labored so to put in motion, was definitivelyabandoned.
While Thomas was marching against Zollicoffer, Colonel Garfield wasdriving Humphrey Marshall from the mountainous region along the Virginia border. With Marshall’s retreat the last Confederate force was driven fromthe State, and Garfield with his brigade joined the army in Tennessee .
The composition ami losses of each army as here stated give the gist of all the data obtainable in the Official Records.K stands for killed ; w for wounded ; m w for mortally wounded; m for captured or missing; c for captured.—E ditors.
The Union Army, Brig.-Gen. George H. Thomas .Second Brigade, Col. Mahlon I). Manson: 10th Inch,Lt.-Col. William C. Rise; 4th Ky. , Col. Speed S. Fry (w);10th Ky., Col. John M. Harlan; 14tli Ohio , Col. James B.Steedman. [The two latter regiments were engagedonly in the pursuit of the enemy.] Brigade loss: k, 19;w, 127 = 146. Third Brigade, Col. Robert L. McCook (w):2d Minn., Col. Horatio P. Van Cleve; 9th Ohio , MajorGustave Kammerling. Brigade loss: k, 18 ; w, 61 = 79;Twelfth Brigade, Acting Brig.-Gen. Samuel P. Carter:12th Ky., Col. William A. Hoskins; 1st Tennessee, Col.
Robert K. Byrd; 2d Tennessee , Col. J. P. T. Carter;1st Ky. Cavalry , Col. Frank Wolford. Brigade loss:k, 3; w, 19; m, 15 = 37. "Artillery : Battery B, 1st Ohio,Capt. William E. Standart; Battery C, 1st Ohio, Capt.Dennis Kenny, Jr.; 9tli Ohio Battery, Capt. Henry S.Wetmore. Camp Guard: D, F, and K, Michigan En-gineers and Mechanics, Lieut.-Col. K. A. Hunton; A,38th Ohio , Capt. Charles Greenwood.
Brig.-Gen. A. Schoepf joined Thomas on the eveningof the battle, after the lighting had ceased, with the17th, 31st, and 38th Ohio .
The total loss of the Union forces was 40 killed, 207 wounded, and 15 captured or missing,—aggregate, 262.
In the Official Records, vol. VII., p. 86, Col. Manson reports that “the Federal force actually engaged did notexceed at any time over 2500.” Gen. Thomas ’s entire command on the field during the engagement probablynumbered about four thousand effectives.
The Confederate Army, Major-Gori. George B.Crittenden . First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. F. K. Zollicoffer (k),Col. D. H. Cummings: 15th Miss., Lieut.-Col. E. C. Wal-thall; 19th Tenn., Col. D. II. Cummings, Lieut.-Col.Francis M. Walker; 20th Tenn. , Col. Joel A. Battle; 25thTenn., Col. S. S. Stanton (w); Tenn . Battery, Capt. A. M.Rutledge; Ind’p’t Co. Tenn . Cav., Capt. W. S. Bledsoe;Ind’p’t Co. Tenn . Cav., Capt. T. C. Sanders. Brigade
loss : k, 98; w, 265; m, 66 = 429. Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Wm. II. Carroll: 16tli Ala., Col. Win. B. Wood; 17thTenn., Lieut.-Col. T. C. H. Miller ; 28 tli Tenn. , Col. J. P.Murray; 29tli Tenn., Col. Sami. Powell (w), Major HoraceRice; Tenn . Battery (2 guns),Capt. Hugh L.W. McClung;4th Battalion Tenn . Cav., Lieut.-Col. B. M. Branner.Brigade loss: k, 28; w, 46; m, 29 = 103. Reserve: 5thBattalion Tenn. Cav., Lieut.-Col. George R. McClellan.