attery H, 5th Artillery 3 120 -- -- -- 5 -- --
________ _______ _______ ______
Total 80 1486 5 89 21 468 -- 47
Aggregating 1566 94 489 47
TOTAL
LOSS.
CO EM
Field and Staff of Brigade
1st Btn., 15th U. S. Inf. 5 101
1st " 16th " 7 159
1st " 19th " 1 68
1st " 18th " 7 138
2d " 18th " 6 133
Battery H, 5th Artillery -- 5
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Total 26 604
Aggregating 630
In his official report, General Rosecrans gives his loss as follows:
Killed, 92 officers, 1,441 enlisted men; total, 1,523; wounded, 384
officers, 6,861 enlisted men; total, 7,245.
Total killed and wounded, 8,778 officers and men, or 20.22% of the entire
force in action; the loss of prisoners, he states, will fall short of
2,800 officers and men.
The loss of the brigade compared with the loss of the army is as follows:
Officers killed in the army, 92; in the brigade, 5; = 5.4% of army loss.
Officers wounded in the army, 384; in the brigade, 21; = 5.4% of army
loss. Enlisted men killed in the army, 1,441; in the brigade, 89; = 6.1%
of army loss. Enlisted men wounded in the army, 6,861; in the brigade,
468; = 6.8% of army loss. Captured and missing in the army, 2,800; in the
brigade, 47; = 1.6% of army loss.
The loss of the army in killed and wounded was about 20% of the force in
action; the loss of the brigade in killed and wounded was 37% of its
strength in action.
The effective force of the army in the battle was, all told, 43,400
officers and men; the effective force, of the brigade taken into action
was, all told, 1,566 officers and men, or 3.6% of the strength of the
army; while the loss of killed and wounded of the brigade is 6.6% of that
of the army.
The loss of killed and wounded in Scribner's Brigade was reported as 208
officers and men, or about 2.3% of army loss; in John Beatty's Brigade as
281 officers and enlisted men, or about 3.2% of army loss; while the three
brigades were virtually the same in strength of effective force.
Only two brigades in the whole army report a larger loss of killed and
wounded than the Regul
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