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during, and since the prolonged engagement, are deserving a mention in this report.

Lieutenant-Colonels George G. Gardner and G. W. Brent and Captain P. Thompson, Adjutant Inspector-General's Department; 1st Lieutenants Towson Ellis and F. S. Parker, regular aide-de-camps; Lieutenant-Colonel Beard, Inspector-General; Lieutenant-Colonels A. J. Hays and P. A. May; Major James Stainbridge, Louisiana Infantry, and Major Wm. Clarelate, 7th Alabama Volunteers, Adjutant Assistant Inspector-Generals; Lieutenant-Colonel L. W. O'Bannow, Chief Quartermaster; Major J. J. Walker, Chief Commissary; Majors F. Molloy and G. M. Ilillyer, Assistants; Lieutenant-Colonel H. Aladowski, Chief of Ordnance; Captains W. II. Warren and 0. T. Gibbs and Lieutenant W. F. Johnson, Assistants; Captain S. W. Steele, Assistant Chief Engineer, and Lieutenants H. C. Forie, and H. H. Buchanan, and J. R. P. McFall; Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Hollinquist, Acting Chief of Artillery; First Lieutenant R. H. Thompson, Assistant Surgeon; A. J. Foard, Medical Director: Surgeon E. A. Llewellen, Assistant Medical Director; Acting Surgeon T. G. Richardson, attendant on myself, staff, and escort; Colonel David Urquhart, of Louisiana; J. Stoddard Johnston, of Kentucky;, and St. Leger Grenfel, of England, the two former volunteer aides, long on my staff, serving me most effectively; Major E. W. Baylor, Assistant Quartermaster; Major B. O.Kennedy, Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, and Lieutenant William M. Bridges, aide-de-camp 50 the Jaje. Bsif^i  i^ene Butjc}de\t^ a zealous and efficient laborer in our cause that I. hoV&"frea.b teMfmeiiy *p the cordial support given me at all times, since meeting liim a year ago in West Tennessee, by his Excellency Governor Harris. From the field of Shiloh, where he received in his arms the dying form of the lamented Johnston, to the last struggle at Murfreesborough, he has been one of us, and has shared all our privations and dangers, while giving us his personal and political influence with all the power he possessed at the head of the State Government. To the medical department pf the army, under the able administration of Surgeon Foard, great credit is due for the success which attended their labors. Sharing none of the excitement and glory of the field, these officers, in their labor of love, devoted themselves assiduously in attending the sufferings of their brother soldiers at war, when others are seeking repose. The reports of subordinate commanders have been especially called for, and are soon expected, when they will be promptly forwarded.

During the time the operations at Murfreesborough were being conducted, important expeditions under Brigadier-Generals Forrest and Morgan were absent in West Tennessee and Northern Kentucky. The reports already forwarded show the complete success which attended these gallant brigadiers, and commend them to the confidence of the Government and gratitude of the country.

I am. sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

_ BRAXTON BRAGG,

General Commanding. General S. Cooper, Adjutant-General, Richmond, Va.

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