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WEST TENI\ AND NORTHERN MISS.
gives me great pleasure to say that the officers and men under my com-
mand acted with great bravery and coolness.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,
A. W. DEES,
Captain, Comdg. Dees' Battery, Third Michigan Light Artillery.
W. DEAN COLMAN,
Major, and Asst. Adjt. Gen., Second Div., Army of the Miss.
SEPTEMBER 18-23, 1862.--0Operations about Forts Henry and Donelson,
Tenn., and skirmishes.
Reports of Col. William W. Lowe, Fifth Iowa Cavalry.
FORT HENRY, September 23, 1862.
SIR: One of my scouting parties, under Lieutenant Waters, Fifth
Iowa Cavalry, on the 18th captured near Huntingdon 8 horses, 8 mules,
1 wagon and harness, 4 barrels salt, 1 rifle, 1 common pistol, and 4 re-
volvers. Another party, under Captain Wilcox, yesterday had a skir-
mish, in which 1 guerrilla captain was killed and 4 of his men captured.
I now have Colonel Harding out after Woodward with a fair prospect of
overhauling him. I would like to get the remainder of Stenbeck's and
Flood's batteries, having but one section of each. If the Thirteenth
Wisconsin can be replaced by another regiment I would wish to have
it returned.
LOWE,
Colonel, Commanding.
Maj. Gen. U. S. GRANT.
FORT HENRY, September 23, 1862.
SIR: A scouting party sent from Fort Donelson, under command of
Captain Croft, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, yesterday had a fight with rebels,
killing 2 and capturing 1. He burned their stores and threw their
ammunition into the river.
LOW E,
Colonel, Commanding.
Maj. Gen. U. S. GRANT, Jackson.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1862.-Engagement at Iuka, Miss.
REPORTS, ETC.
No. 1.-Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, U. S. Army, commanding District of West Ten-
nessee.
No. 2.-Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, U. S. Army, commanding Army of the Mis-
sissippi, with congratulatory orders.
No. 3.-Return of Casualties in the Union forces.
No. 4.-Surg. Archibald B. Campbell, U. S. Army, Medical Director.
No. 5.-Capt. William M. Wiles, Twenty-second Indiana Infantry, Provost-Marshal.
No. 6.-Lieut. Col. Warren L. Lothrop, First Missouri Light Artillery, Chief of
Artillery.62
[CWAP. XXIX.
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 17, In Two Parts. Part 1, Reports., book, 1886; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth154626/m1/73/?q=%221862%22&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.