A detachment under Lieut. Burrows ran into the enemy's pickets on the New-Baltimore road, running from the west side of Thoroughfare Gap.
Arriving at Gainesville, I was ordered to hold that place while the main force advanced toward Warrenton, which I did. The force that went toward Warrenton having returned about eight or nine o'clock P. M., I withdrew my pickets, and again followed as rear-guard, and arrived at Centreville about midnight.
Having arrived at Centreville, I found that Lieutenant Baldwin, of my regiment, with a detachment of thirty-two men ordered from headquarters Sixth Ohio cavalry (Col. Loyd) to escort a train to Haymarket, or from there to the detachment under Gen. Stahel--that they reached Haymarket — that while there, about daylight, one of his videttes, posted in his rear toward Centreville, reported a large body of cavalry coming; the Lieutenant replied, It is probably our own troops, but ordered his men to mount, and sent a sergeant to investigate.
The sergea
ivates, Reily Falkner, hand; John G. Clark, head slight.
Company B--Privates, Ansil Billings, leg, slight; John Gibbs, hip; James E. Elliott, foot.
Company C--Lieut. Henry M. Jackson, arm broken ; Sert.
Charles Oakley, hand; Corporal George W. Vaughn, hand and arm.
Company D--Privates, Jacob Lair, hip; Horace Roach, arm; Phineas Carter, leg; Edwin Gee, missing; Jacob Hinderleighter, missing.
Company E--Sergeant A. O. McDonald, limb amputated; Corporals, Ambrose Haines, face; S. S. Baldwin, shoulder; privates, Foster Blakely, leg, flesh; Daniel Dorn, face; Sanford Baymer, abdomen.
Company F--Sergt. Thomas T. Colwell, breast, slight; privates, James M. Greenfield, leg ; Eleazur B. Holmes, foot, badly; Joseph Crane, arm, slight.
Company G--Corporal John C. Sholes, arm, badly; privates, S. S. Basna, side, badly; Rodger Noble, lost a hand. Thomas H. Hunt, Major Commanding Seventh Michigan Volunteers.
Colonel Potter's letter.
headquarters Fifty-First regiment N.