| Brigade. | Battle. | Division. | Present. | Killed. | Wounded. | Missing. | Per cent. |
| Garnett's (Va.) | Gettysburg | Pickett's | 1,427 | 78 | 324 | 5391 | 65.9 |
| Perry's (Fla.) | Gettysburg | Anderson's | 700 | 33 | 217 | 205 | 65.0 |
| Wofford's (Texas） | Antietam | Hood's | 854 | 69 | 417 | 62 | 64.1 |
| Anderson's (S. C.) | 2Seven Days | Longstreet's | 1,250 | 136 | 638 | 13 | 62.9 |
| Pryor's | 3Seven Days | Longstreet's | 1,400 | 170 | 681 | 11 | 61.5 |
| Cockrell's (Mo.) | Franklin | French's | 696 | 98 | 229 | 92 | 60.2 |
| Wilcox's (Ala.) | 4Seven Days | Longstreet's | 1,850 | 229 | 806 | 20 | 57.0 |
| Benning's (Ga.) | Chickamauga | Hood's | 900 | 88 | 412 | 10 | 56.6 |
| Bate's | Chickamauga | Stewart's | 1,187 | 66 | 541 | -- | 51.1 |
| Ramseur's (N. C.) | Chancellorsville | D. H. Hill's | 1,509 | 154 | 526 | 108 | 52.2 |
| Featherston's (Miss.) | 5Seven Days | Longstreet's | 1,350 | 115 | 542 | 9 | 49.3 |
| Lane's (N. C.) | Gettysburg | Pender's | 1,355 | 41 | 348 | 271 | 48.7 |
| Donelson's (Tenn.) | Stone's River | Cheatham's | 1,5296 | 108 | 575 | 17 | 45.7 |
| Gregg's | Chickamauga | B. R. Johnson's | 1,352 | 109 | 474 | 18 | 44.4 |
| Clayton's (Ala.) | Chickamauga | Stewart's | 1,446 | 86 | 535 | 13 | 44.4 |
| Semmes's | Antietam | McLaws's | 709 | 53 | 255 | 6 | 44.2 |
| Daniels's (N. C.) | Gettysburg | Rodes's | 2,100 | 165 | 635 | 116 | 43.6 |
| Rodes's (Ala.) | Malvern Hill | D. H. Hill's | 1,027 | 81 | 344 | -- | 41.3 |
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But the foregoing were only a few of the many instances of heavy percentages of loss.
They represent only the few cases in which the official reports happened to mention the number of effectives taken into action, and which, again, happened to appear before the order was issued, forbidding any further mention in official reports of the strength in action.
Equally surprising percentages are found in the brigade reports:--
These terrible losses were not confined to regiments and brigades; in some divisions the men were cut down equally fast throughout the entire ranks of the command.
During the Seven Days Battle, Longstreet's Division lost in the actions at Gaines's Mill and Glendale 766 killed, 3,435 wounded and 237 missing; total, 4,438,--out of 8,831 engaged, or, 50.2 per cent.
Nor was this an uncommon loss.
The official reports of Confederate Division-Generals, though lacking the figures necessary for a statement of an exact percentage, often indicate plainly a division-loss in killed and wounded of over forty per cent.
Through four years of desperate war and its score of battles these excessive percentages divided and subdivided the ranks, until the end came and with it a division which was merely a thing of shreds and patches.
1 The official report for Garnett's brigade says: “It is feared from the information received that the majority of those reported missing are either killed or wounded.”
2 This loss occurred in the two actions at Gaines's Mill and Glendale.
3 This loss occurred in the two actions at Gaines's Mill and Glendale.
4 This loss occurred in the two actions at Gaines's Mill and Glendale.
5 This loss occurred in the two actions at Gaines's Mill and Glendale.
6 General Donelson stated the number in his official report at “about 1,400 men.”
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