James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

[121] about 8 a. m. of the 27th, by a force many times his superior. The repulse was a bloody and decisive one, from which the enemy made no attempt to advance. Cleburne lost 20 killed, 190 wounded, and Hooker admitted a loss of 65 killed and 377 wounded. Among the wounded of Cleburne's command were Col. W. D. Robison, Second Tennessee, and Lieut.-Col. J. G. Cole, Fifth (Confederate) Tennessee, mortally wounded. Colonel Cole had been a conspicuous figure of Polk's brigade in all of the great battles of the Southwest, and had won commendation and honor on every field.

General Grant reported his losses at Missionary Ridge at 5,616 killed, wounded and missing. The corrected figures show a loss of 5,824. The Confederate loss he estimated ‘probably less than ours,’ but claimed 6,142 prisoners, 40 pieces of artillery and 7,000 stand of smallarms by the entire army; while Hooker, commanding the Eleventh and Twelfth army corps, reported the capture by his command of ‘6,547 prisoners, 7 pieces of artillery, 9 battleflags and not less than 10,000 stand of small-arms.’ General Grant, in forwarding Hooker's report under date of March 25, 1864, placed this endorsement upon it: ‘Attention is called to that part of the report giving the number of prisoners and small-arms captured, which is greater than the number really captured by the whole army.’

This General Hooker, who was so defiant of historical accuracy, is the same Gen. Joseph Hooker who was the author of a slanderous communication addressed to the Hon. S. P. Chase, dated December 28, 1863, and published in 1890, on page 339, Series 1, Vol. XXXI, Part 2, of ‘Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,’ in which the following statement was made: ‘Before the battle of Lookout, I had opened communication with Cheatham's division, holding the summit of the mountain, and had good reason to believe that I would have succeeded in bringing in all the enlisted men with ’