HDQRS. ELEVENTH WEST VIRGINIA INFANTRY VOLS.,

Cedar Creek, Va., October 25,1864.

LIEUTENANT: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by my regiment in the action of
the 19th instant:

Near 5 a. m. the firing on the left alarmed my camp, and the men were quickly in line under arms at the works
immediately to the left of the battery, on the extreme right of the line of the Army of West Virginia. When I arrived
at the works I found some of my men firing to the front, and fearing injury to some of our own command in front,
and seeing no enemy there at that time, I ordered them to cease firing. I had not passed from the left to right of my
regiment, however, before the Fifteenth West Virginia, immediately on my left, fell back from the works, and my
flank received a pretty severe, but, owing to fog and darkness, not accurate fire. My regiment then gave way by
companies from the left, obliquing to the right and rear down the hill. We assisted, however, in running some (I
think five) of the pieces of the battery above named to the rear, whence they were taken off. I did not succeed in
forming my regiment until we had crossed the ravine toward the turnpike, when I formed a perfect line and
remained in that position a short time. Being left separated from my brigade, and hearing firing almost directly in
my rear, I moved " by right of companies to rear " through the woods, where, finding I was in great danger of being
cut off (the rebels having the hill commanding the turnpike from the creek northward), I formed columns and filed
my command in rear of the left of the works of the Nineteenth Corps. 1 am satisfied that had I been a few minutes
later my command would have been cut off. I had taken this position but a short time when our left was attacked,
and a staff officer (I think of the Nineteenth Corps) ordered me to move to the rear, changing front forward on left
company. I had faced my command to the left, when all in front of us broke, and my command was carried with the
press in confusion toward the stone house now used as General Sheridan's headquarters. A few of my command
returned to the breasts works, but as they were otherwise deserted they were compelled to leave them. My
command being from this time so scattered I cannot say that it took part as a command in the subsequent action of
the forenoon. I exerted myself to reorganize, and whenever l found officers of my command, directed them to retain
all men of the regiment with whom they could meet and rally on General Crook's flag. I succeeded in rallying most
of the regiment, when the brigade was formed in rear of the Sixth Corps, on the right of the pike, and moved Pith
the brigade to the position on the high ground on the left of the pike, and advanced to our present position with our
army in the evening.

I have in another report spoken particularly in reference to the conduct of the officers of my command.

I am, lieutenant, very respectfully, &c.,

                                             VAN. H. BUKEY,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Comdg. Eleventh West Virginia Volunteers.

[Lieut. W. H. H. KING,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.]

ADDENDA.

HDQRS. ELEVENTH WEST VIRGINIA INFANTRY VOLS.,

                              Cedar Greek Va., October 24,1864.

                              Lieut. W. H.H. KING,

Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen., Third Brigade, First Infantry Division:

LIEUTENANT: Being in receipt of a circular from your headquarters, directing that regimental commanders
furnish a report of the conduct of their subordinate officers on the occasion of the 19th instant, I have the honor to
comply with the requirement as follows:

Major Simpson, though quite unwell, was with the command, and performed his duties throughout. Captain
Cummings, Company A; Captain Clammer and Lieutenant Ferrel, Company F; Lieutenant Core, Company D;
Captain Stoddard and Lieutenant Collett, Company F; Lieutenant Elkins, Company G; Lieutenant Holt, Company
H; Lieutenant Lytle, Company I, and Lieutenants Poling and Riley, Company K, were all with their commands until
the regiment was disorganized by being forced back with and becoming mixed with the left of the Nineteenth Corps,
and all were with the command when I succeeded in assembling it again. Captain Myers, Company B. was not thus
with it. lee says he was sick, and I found him quite sick the succeeding day (in the evening). In case of Lieutenant
Park, of the same company, I have, in obedience to an order received, forwarded a special report to division
headquarters. Lient. Levi Campbell, jr., Company D, acting adjutant, was with the command until late in the
afternoon, when I permitted him, with Captain Parriott, Company H, to remain behind. They were evidently unable
to proceed with the command, the former being dismounted. Capt. D. R. King, Company I, had a surgeon's pass
and went to Winchester. He had just returned from a sick leave, and was not yet reported for duty, nor is he so
reported yet. Lieut. Philip F. Poe, Company E, went to Winchester. I called upon him for an explanation and he
states, that upon the command becoming confused he retired to the line of stragglers being halted, or near it, when
an officer with colonel's uniform ordered him to take charge of some men of different commands, and with them
guard a train to the rear. He went beyond Newtown, and fell in with Colonel Curtis, Twelfth West Virginia, who
ordered him to the command of some sick men, whom he took to Winchester. Leaving them there, I think with the
provost-marshal, he returned with Colonel Curtis to this place. Captain Stoddard, Company F, was wounded.
Captain Young, Company G, was with his command in the works. He afterward went to the rear, and reports that he
was run over and crippled. The surgeon reports having given him a pass near Middletown. Second Lieut. William
G. McDaniel, Company G, was not with his command after it was formed in the Nineteenth Corps works, and,
although I asked Captain Young for it two days ago, I have as yet no explanation. Some of the absent officers
named above have acted well in previous engagements. I noticed particularly the good conduct of Lieutenant
McDaniel, of Company G, at Fisher's Hill. Not knowing what evidence to call upon in reference to the above facts,
I can only take officers' statements. After we were driven from the works of the Nineteenth Corps and until the
command was again formed about noon, I must confess I did not know where my whole command was. To that point
we were in good order, the command marching through the woods nearest the ford "by right of companies to the
rear." However, in riding along the lines, front and rear, I found those officers whose names I first mentioned on
several parts of the field, each with a detachment of the command. I instructed them that when they met others to
keep them together, and that when two such detachments met they, too, should remain together. The officers very
efficiently obeyed, and when our corps advanced in the evening I had thus succeeded in again having the most of
my regiment together.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

                                             VAN H. BUKEY,

Lieutenant- Colonel, Commanding Regiment.