Joe:

First a correction. I have a bad habit of writing off a message without first checking my facts. As you are aware, only the report of John Bratton is in the Official Records, at I, O.R., Vol. 31, pt. 1, pp. 231-233.

However, the good peoople at Broadfoot located copies of Jenkins' Report for the division, as well as all of the regimental reports for Bratton's Brigade. All of them are int he Broadfoot Supplement, Vol. 6. Jenkins' report appears on pp. 20-25; the report for the 1 S. C. (Hagood's), by a captain, at pp. 26-28; COL Asbury Coward's for the 5 S.C. at pp. 28-30; Major White for the 6 S.C. at pp. 30-31; Martin Gary's for the Legion at pp. 31-34; and Joseph Walker's for the Palmetto Sharpshooters at pp. 34-35. For some reason I can't find one for the 2 S.C. Rifles in my papers, and I wonder if one was never preapred, since Col Kilpatrick had been killed. I may just have overlooked it.

Broadfoot's editors got Jenkins' report from South Caroliniana; and the rest from the S. C. Department of Archives and History. However, Gary's is also at South Caroliniana.

The Legion took 25 officers and 291 enlsited men into the action, and lost 8 killed, 65 wounded, and 12 missing. Several of the wounded died of their wounds. The casualties as reported in the newspaper accounts for the brigade are as follows: 6 S.C. 0 KIA, 13 WIA, 3 MIA; Hampton Legion 8 KIA; 65 WIA; 12 MIA; 5 S.C. 9 KIA; 84 WIA; 9 MIA; 1 S.C. (Hagood's) 2 KIA, 43 WIA, 6 MIA; 2 S. C. Rifles 6 KIA; 51 KIA; 7 MIA; Palmetto Sharpshooters 6 KIA, 35 WIA, 3 MIA.

There were a number of casualty lists published int he papers, some with initial error. Depending on your access, try the Columbia Daily Southern Guardian, 7 Nov 63, p. 2, c. 3; Charleston Daily Courier 7 Nov 63, p. 1, c. 5; or Charleston Mercury, 11 Nov 63, p. 1, c. 4.

A few more comments on the character of Jenkins. His division held the Confederate left, and he kept one brigade west of Lookout, picketing the river and interdicting the Federal supply line along the north bank, forcign the Federals to take a much more circuitous route through Sequathchie Valley. However, he did not have a cavalry screen west of Lookout Valley (this fault should be laid at the foot of Longstreet and Bragg), and he had posted Tige Anderson's brigade far south along the crest of Lookout, guarding trails over the mountain, while it could have done much better service in the valley itself, where the Federal would have to come. His poor tactical dispositions took Anderson completely out of the equation. Law's Brigade was posted west of the mountain in Lookout Valley and along the river. On October 25, while Law was on authorized leave of several days to go to the rear to visit Hood, Jenkins for unexplained reasons, decided to play brigade commander, and ordered three of Law's five regiments east of Lookout. He certainly did not need them on the eastern side of the mountain. So when the Federals crossed at Brown's Ferry on the morning of October 27, there were only two slim regiments to meet Hazen, and they were not enough. The failure at Wauhatchie, which effectively foreclsoed any hopes of Confederate success around Chattanooga, is largely due to the ineptness of Jenkins. He then proceeded to destroy the fighting efficiency of what had been, and in late 1864 agains became, the best fighting division in the Armny of Northern Virginia. He was insanely jealous of Law, who ahd ably led it after Hood was wounded both aty Gettysburg and Chickamauga. But, unfortunately, Jenkins ranked him. Bratton, incidentally, loathed Jenkins. Bratton's letters to his wife, copies of which are at Emory (the originals were destroyed in a house fire after they were transcribed) were very well edited and published in 2002.