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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 _______ 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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