Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6.
Frank Moore, Ed.

As for such brigadiers as Negley, Jefferson C. Davis, Johnson, Palmer, Hascal, Van Cleve, Wood, Mitchell, Cruft, and Sheridan, they ought to be made Major-Generals in our service. In such brigade commanders as Colonels Carlin, Miller, Hazen, Samuel Beatty of the Nineteenth Ohio, Gibson, Gross, Wagner, John Beatty of the Third Ohio, Hearken, Starkweather, Stanley, and others, whose names are mentioned in the accompanying report, the Government may well confide. They are the men from whom our troops should be at once supplied with brigadier-generals, and justice to the brave men and officers of the regiments equally demand their promotion, to give them and their regiments their proper leaders. Many captains and subalterns also showed great gallantry and capacity for superior commands. But, above all, the steady rank and file showed invincible fighting courage and stamina worthy of a great and free nation, requiring only good officers, discipline and instruction, to make them equal, if not superior, to any troops in ancient and modern times. To these I offer my most heartfelt thanks and good wishes.

Words of my own cannot add to the renown of our brave and patriotic officers and soldiers who fell on the field of honor, nor increase respect for their memory in the hearts of our countrymen. The names of such men as Lieut.-Col. J. P. Garesche, the pure and noble Christian gentleman and chivalric officer, who gave his life an early offering on the altar of his country's freedom; the gentle, true, and accomplished General Sill; the heroic, ingenious, and able Colonels Roberts, Millikin, Shaffer, McKee, Reed, Foreman, Fred. Jones, Hawkins, Knell, and the gallant and faithful Major Carpenter of the Nineteenth regulars, and many other field-officers, will live in our country's history, as will those of many others of inferior rank, whose soldierly deeds on this memorable battle-field won for them the admiration of their companions, and will dwell in our memories in long future years after God in his mercy shall have given us peace and restored us to the bosom of our homes and families.

Simple justice to the gallant officers of my staff — the noble and lamented Lieut.-Colonel Garesche, Chief of Staff; Lieut.-Col. Taylor, Chief Quartermaster; Lieut.-Col. Simmons, Chief Commissary; Major C. Goddard, Senior Aid-dc-Camp; Major Ralston Skinner, Judge Advocate-General; Lieut. Frank S. Bomb, A. D.C. of Gen. Tyler; Captain Charles R. Thompson, my Aid-de-Camp; Lieut. Byron Kirby, Sixth United States infantry, A. D.C., who was wounded on the thirty-first; R. S. Thorn, Esq., a member of the Cincinnati cavalry, who acted as volunteer Aid-de-Camp, behaved with distinguished gallantry; Colonel Barnett, Chief of Artillery and Ordnance; Capt. G. H. Gilman, Nineteenth United States infantry, and Inspector of Artillery; Capt. James Curtis, Fifteenth United States infantry, Assistant Inspector-General; Captain Wiles, Twenty-second Indiana, Provost-Marshal General; Capt. Michler, Topographical Engineers; Captain Jesse Merrill, of the signal corps, whose corps behaved well Captain Elmer Otis, Fourth regular cavalry, who commanded the second courier line, connected the various headquarters most successfully, and who made a most opportune and brilliant charge on Wheeler's cavalry, routing the brigade and recapturing three hundred of our prisoners.

Lieut. Edson, United States ordnance officer, who, during the battle of Wednesday, distributed ammunition under fire of the enemy's batteries, and behaved bravely. Capt. Hubbard, and Lieut. Newberry , who joined my staff on the field, acting as aids, rendered valuable services in carrying orders on the field. Lieut. Byse, Fourth United States cavalry, commanded the escort of the headquarters' train, and distinguished himself with gallantry and efficiency, who not only performed these appropriate duties to my entire satisfaction, and accompanying me everywhere carrying orders through the thickest of the fight, watched while others slept, never weary when duty called, deserves my public thanks and the respect and gratitude of the army.

With all the facts of the battle fully before me. the relative numbers and positions of our troops and those of tile rebels, the gallantry and obstinacy of the contest, and the final result, I say from conviction, and as public acknowledgment due to Almighty God in closing this report: “Non nobis! Domine, non nobis. Sed nomine tuo da Gloriam!”