Forty-Ninth Infantry—One killed; twenty wounded; one missing.
Sixth Battery—One wounded.
Other regiments in the two brigades and Colonel Morgan’s detachment lost in about the same ratio as above, because the enemy must have captured at least two hundred prisoners, probably more, and men in Company K saw at Donaldsonville, laid out for burial, about forty Federal soldiers, picked up on the field by a flag-of-truce party. Most of these men were shot in the head.
July 14th and 15th baggage and teams were unloaded from the steamer. On the sixteenth two hundred and thirteen feet of bridge was thrown across Bayou La-Fourche, under the direction of Sergeant Austin Hawes. The company remained on guard until July 20th, when they parted from their pontoons, relieved from further engineer duty by Captain John J. Smith, with one company First Louisiana (colored) Engineers.
Camp was struck July 21st, when the company proceeded to New Orleans upon the steamer Sallie List and reported to the regiment at Algiers late in the afternoon. Department Special Orders No. 181, issued July 25th, formally relieved Company K from detached duty in the engineer service.
During this tour of active field service sick men of Company K were left in hospitals at Berwick, Brashear City, New Orleans, and many men were sent to Gentilly Bayou regimental hospital. Deaths from sickness were as follows:
March 31st—Private Albert N. Bliss, fever, at Marine Hospital, New Orleans.
April 26th—Private Charles L. Atwood, fever, at Brashear City Hospital.
May 1st—Private Charles B. Bacon, fever, at Brashear City Hospital.
May 3d—Corporal George H. Shepard, congestion of bowels, at Berwick City Hospital.