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HEADQUARTERS FRENCH'S DIVISION,
Tuscumbia., Ala., November 5, 1864.

GENERAL: Some time since I had the honor to submit to you a brief preliminary report of the battle of Allatoona. As the reports of the brigade commanders are now in, I have the honor to forward one embracing some of the details of the battle:

. . . History will record the battle of Allatoona one of the most sanguinary conflict of the war; and when it is remembered that the enemy fought from within their strong redoubts, the desperate deeds of daring performed by our troops in overcoming so many of the foe, a meed of praise is due to their heroic valor. . .

. . . Among the killed from Sears' brigade is Colonel W. H. Clark, Forty-sixth Mississippi. He fell in the advance near the enemy's works with the battle-flag in is hands. He was an excellent and gallant officer. Also were killed Captain B. Davidson and Lieuts. G. C. Edwards, J. R. Henry, and G. D. Davis.

Colonel W. S. Barry, Thirty-fifth Mississippi, and Major Partin, Thirty-sixth Mississippi, were wounded, together with Capts. R. G. Yates and A. J. Farmer, and Lieuts. J. N. McCoy, G. H. Bannerman, J. M. Chadwick, J. Coopwood, R. E. Jones, E. W. Brown, G. H. Moore, and Ensigns G. W. Cannon and a. Scarborough. Texas will mourn for the death of some of her bravest ad best men. Captain Somerville, Thirty-second Texas, was killed after vainly endeavoring to enter the last work, where his conspicuous gallantry had carried him and his little band. Captains Gibson, Tenth Texas; Bates, Ninth Texas; Conley, Twenty-ninth North Carolina, and Adjutant Griffin, Ninth Texas; Lieutenant Alexander, Twenty-ninth North Carolina, and Dixon E. Wetzel, Ninth Texas, were killed gallantly leading their men. . . .

S. G. FRENCH,
Major-General, Commanding.
OR V39 Pt. 1, p. 818

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