No. 212.
Reports of Lieut.
Col. Daniel Grass, Sixty-first Illinois Infantry, of operations December 4 and
7, 1864.
SIR: I have the
honor to forward the following report of casualties in my command during the
engagement with the enemy at Overall's Creek on yesterday, the 4th instant,
viz.:*
Four prisoners were
captured by my command, and were left at the guard-house last night near
General Van Cleve's headquarters.
Very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SIR: I have the
honor to make the following report of the part taken by my command in the
engagement near Stone's River yesterday, the 7th instant:
My command,
numbering 13 officers and 174 enlisted men, were deployed as skirmishers, and
were kept on the skirmish line during the entire engagement. The casualties
were as follows.†
There are no men
missing from my command. Forty-five prisoners were taken by my command during
the engagement and sent to the rear.
* Nominal list
(omitted) shows 1 officer killed and 9 men wounded.
† Nominal list (omitted) shows 1 man killed
and 2 officers and 12 men wounded.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 45, Part 1 (Serial No. 93), p. 621-2