him the names of First-Lieutenant F.B.  Nelson and Second-Lieutenant C.G.  Gill, both of the Second Tennessee Foot (Haskell’s regiment), among the killed, and in the brigade one hundred and six of all ranks killed or wounded.  Among the latter the gallant brigadier general himself has a smart wound in his arm, but not disabled; and Major R. Farqueson, Second Tennessee, H.F.  Murray, second lieutenant, G.T.  Southerland, first lieutenant, W.P.  Hale, adjutant, all of the same regiment, severely, and First-Lieutenant W. Yearwood mortally wounded.  And I know, from personal observation on the ground, that First-Lieutenant Ewell, of the Rifles, if not now dead, was mortally wounded in entering, sword in hand, the intrenchments around the captured tower.  Second-Lieutenant Derby, Topographical Engineers, I saw also at the same place, severely wounded, and Captain Patten, Second United States Infantry, lost his right hand.  Major Sumner, Second United States Dragoons, was slightly wounded the day before, and Captain Johnson, Topographical Engineers (now lieutenant colonel of infantry), was very severely wounded in reconnoitering some days earlier.  I must not omit to add that Captain Mason and Second-Lieutenant Davis, both of the Rifles, were among the very severely wounded in storming the same tower.  I estimate our total loss in killed and wounded may be about two hundred and fifty, and that of the enemy three hundred and fifty.  In the pursuit toward Jalapa (twenty-five miles hence) I learn we have added much to the enemy’s loss in prisoners, killed, and wounded.  In fact, I suppose this retreating army to be nearly disorganized, and hence my haste to follow in an hour or two to profit by events.  In this hurried and imperfect report I must not omit to say that Brigadier-General Twiggs, in passing the mountain range beyond Cerro Gordo crowned with the tower, detached from his division, as I suggested the day before, a strong force to carry that height which commanded the Jalapa road at the foot, and could not fail, if carried, to cut off the whole or any part of the enemy’s forces from a retreat in any direction.  A portion of the First Artillery under the often-distinguished Brevet-Colonel Childs, the Third Infantry under Captain Alexander, the Seventh Infantry under Lieutenant-Colonel Plympton, and the Rifles under Major Loring, all under the temporary command of Colonel Harvey, Second Dragoons, during the confinement to his bed of Brevet Brigadier-General P.F.  Smith, composed that detachment.  The style of execution, which I had the pleasure to witness, was most brilliant and decisive.  The brigade ascended the long and difficult slope of Cerro Gordo, without shelter and under the tremendous fire of artillery and musketry, with the utmost steadiness, reached the breastworks, drove the enemy from them, planted the colors of the First Artillery, Third and Seventh Infantry, the enemy’s flag still flying, and after some minutes of sharp firing finished the conquest with the bayonet.  It