led as a guard for the works during
the night, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Garland. One
battalion of the 1st Kentucky regiment was ordered to reinforce
this command. Intrenching tools were procured, and additional
strength was given to the works, and protection to the men, by
working parties during the night, under the direction of
Lieutenant Scarritt, Engineers.

The main object proposed in the morning had been effected. A
powerful diversion had been made to favor the operations of the
2d Division, one of the enemy's advanced works had been carried,
and we now had a strong foot-hold in the town. But this had not
been accomplished without a heavy loss, embracing some of our
gallant and promising officers. Captain Williams, Topographical
Engineers, Lieutenants Terrett and Dilworth, 1st Infantry,
Lieutenant Woods, 2d Infantry, Captains Morris and Field,
Brevet-Major Barbour, Lieutenants Irwin and Hazlitt, 3d Infantry,
Lieutenant Hoskins, 4th Infantry, Lieutenant-Colonel Watson,
Baltimore battalion, Captain Allen and Lieutenant Putman,
Tennessee regiment, and Lieutenant Hett, Ohio regiment, were
killed, or have since died of wounds received in this engagement,
while the number and rank of the officers wounded gives
additional proof of the obstinacy of the contest, and the good
conduct of our troops. The number of killed and wounded (p. 295)
incident to the operations in the lower part of the city on the
21st is 394.

Early in the morning of this day (21st), the advance of the 2d
Division had encountered the enemy in force, and after a brief
but sharp conflict, repulsed him with heavy loss. General Worth
then succeeded in gaining a position on the Saltillo road, thus
cutting the enemy's line of communication. From this position the
two heights south of the Saltillo road were carried in
succession, and the gun taken in one of them turned upon the
Bishop's Palace. These important successes were fortunately
obtained with comparatively small loss; Captain McKavett, 8th
Infantry, being the only officer killed.

The 22d day of September passed without any active operations in
the lower part of the city. The citadel and other works continued
to fire at parties exposed to their range, and at the work now
occupied by our troops.