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many great souls blotted from the roll of the living-this was all there was left to tell of those two days of havoc.
It is true a stunning blow had been delivered to the
Federal army, which arrested its progress, shattered its
morale, and changed its tactics.
But all this was as nothing, for it secured delay only.
General Johnston did not mean to delay it-he meant to destroy it. This only could have secured the independence of the
South.
General Beauregard reports the loss of the Confederate army:
| Killed | 1,728 |
| Wounded | 8,012 |
| Missing | 959 |
| Total | 10,699 |
After a close examination of all accessible sources of information, covering about two thirds of the army, the writer finds a possible variation of 218 more casualties, principally in missing, that might be added to
General Beauregard's report, based upon the returns first sent in. The Confederate casualties may therefore be safely estimated at between 10,700 and 11,000, in killed, wounded, and missing.
The missing men were the wounded left on and near the field in Monday's battle.
Jordan speaks of the loss on the first day at about 6,500, which would leave over 4,000 for Monday's battle.
His data are not known to the writer.
The loss of the
Federal army was, according to official reports, as follows:
| Killed. | Wounded. | Captured. | Total. |
| Grant's army | 1,437 | 5,679 | 2,984 | 10,050 |
| Buell's army | 268 | 1,816 | 88 | 2,167 |
| Total | 1,700 | 7,495 | 8,022 | 12,217 |
A reference to the Appendix will show that
General Grant's aggregate loss was 11,220 instead of 10,050, giving a total loss, including
Buell's, of 13,387.
Buell's loss has not been verified, and was also probably larger than the official report.
Swinton, in his “Decisive battles,” and
Prof. Coppee, in his “Life of
Grant” (page 96), put the
Federal loss at 15,000.
It is probable that
Grant's army did not lose much more than a thousand men on Monday.
If this be so, it is apparent that his losses on Sunday were some 10,000, besides thousands of fugitives, at a cost of about 6,500 Confederates.
On Monday the
Federal loss was only some 3,000 or 4,000, with an equal or greater loss inflicted on the
Southern army.
In both cases, the assailant suffered less than the
