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lost a considerable number in the different attacks we made on the march.
At Merrill's we found sixteen dead in the morning after the skirmish.
At Lamine Crossing they lost nine killed. We have taken a number of prisoners, and they are coming in hourly.
A portion of their train was captured.
I think they are effectually broken up, and I shall not give them time to rally or concentrate.
The pursuit and fighting have been done by the M. S. M. and the E. M. M. I can only point to the result of their efforts as the best commentary on their gallantry and endurance.
For the past three days they have followed and engaged the enemy night and day in the rain without subsistence, except that gathered by the wayside, or protection from the storm.
The enemy numbered nearly two thousand men. My own force was about one thousand six hundred.
I am, very truly, your obedient servant,
E. B. Brown, Brigadier-General Volunteers, Commanding. To Major-General J. M. Schofield, Commanding Department of the Missouri, St. Louis.
