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[723] were shelled very heavily by the rebels August 5. Very near all the regiment (about ninety men) was on the skirmish line in the advance on the 7th of August. Our loss was 1 enlisted man killed, 16 enlisted men wounded, 3 of whom have since died. Was on the second line of battle in the charge on the 1st of September until near dark, when we were placed on the first line. Loss, I enlisted man killed, 1 commissioned officer and 8 enlisted men wounded, besides 1 enlisted man wounded by the explosion of a box of ammunition in the ordnance train.

Total casualties-2 enlisted men killed, 1 commissioned officer and 26 enlisted men wounded.

E. Hibbard Topping, Lieutenant Colonel, Comdg. 110th Illinois Infty. Vols. Capt. Charles Swift
, Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen., 3d Brig., 2d Div., 14th Army Corps.

Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office. 1891.

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