Ah,

Now, doing a Germantown search of the OR we find the actual report:

HDQRS. DETACHMENT ELEVENTH NEW YORK CAVALRY,
Germantown, Tenn., April 19, 1865.

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report that yesterday as the patrol was marching from Germantown to Collierville it was attacked by a force of the enemy about six miles from Germantown. The force of the enemy is variously estimated from 60 to 100 strong, while the patrol was but eighteen strong, raider Lieut. John H. Mills, D Company, this regiment. The enemy were concealed behind some houses, and waited until the patrol got to within 100 yards of them, when they charged. Lieutenant Mills drew his men in line, but, after delivering a volley with their carbines, found he would be overpowered by a far superior force, and ordered his men to fall back to the camp at Germantown. He was closely pursued by a well-mounted portion of the enemy to within about two miles of this place (Germantown). The attacking party are supposed to be a part Ford's command. Those of our men who fell from their horses or were poorly mounted were shot. Those who were killed or wounded were robbed of everything, they {the rebels) even taking the boots from some of the dead. The casualties of this command are as follows.(*) I have just received a telegraph from Major Morgan in which he, by order of General Washburn, directs that no patrols will be sent less than fifty men. I have but 190 men available for duty. Out of that my picket, thirty-two men daily; my scouting parties, thirty men daily, and all the camp duties, have to be taken, leaving me no force at all with which to operate to any advantage. I know of fifty men who are mounted on horses which are serviceable, that are in the camp at the headquarters of the regiment at Memphis. If I can have those men and 100 dismounted men for camp duties, I can operate against these guerrillas to advantage, as I have reliable information concerning their haunts.

Hoping that my request for a few more men may meet your approbation and that it may be complied with at your earliest practicable convenience, I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

G. W. SMITH,
Captain, Commanding Detachment Eleventh, New York Cavalry.

Capt. E. J. MEYERS,
Asst. Adjt. Gen., Cavalry Division, Dist. of West Tennessee.

[ Indorsement. ]

HDQRS. CAVALRY DIVISION, DIST. OF WEST TENNESSEE,
Memphis. Tenn., April 21, 1865.

Respectfully forwarded for the information of the major-general commanding District of West Tennessee. The additional mounted men asked for have been, ordered. I must ask that the detail of fifty men for each patrolling party be countermanded, as we have not a sufficient number of men in the command-mounted--to obey the order.

E. D. OSBAND,
Brevet Brigadier-General

[OR Series 1, V. 49, pt. 1, pp. 512/3]

* The casualty list was not recorded in the OR

George Martin