Report of Captain James Saunders, Sixty-Ninth New York Infantry.

Camp Near Falmouth, December 22,1862.

In compliance with general orders received December 21, I hereby certify that the Sixty-ninth Regiment New York Volunteers entered the battle of Fredericksburg, on December 13, 1862, commanded by Colonel Robert Nugent, and 18 commissioned officers and 210 rank and file, in which the above numbered regiment lost 16 commissioned officers and 160 rank and file, leaving Captain James Saunders, Lieutenant Milliken, and Lieutenant  L. Brennan to bring the remnant of the regiment off the battle-field.

James Saunders,

Captain, Commanding Sixty-ninth Regiment New York Volunteers.