Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1.
Henry Coppee , LL.D., Ed.

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[555] men, nearly eleven thousand of whom were from Grant's army of forty thousand men. The Confederates had suffered no less; they acknowledged one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight killed, eight thousand and twelve wounded, and nine hundred and fifty-nine prisoners. Among the killed there were two generals and the rebel governor of Kentucky, and among the wounded five generals, two of whom were generals of division—proof of the courage with which the leaders had exposed themselves. Modern history mentions, we believe, few instances of a general-in-chief being killed, like Johnston, at the head of his troops in the height of a great battle and in the midst of his success. The total losses of the Confederate army amounted to ten thousand six hundred and ninety-nine men—that is to say, more than one-fourth of its entire force¹—but on the evening of the battle its strength was much more reduced by the scattering of individuals and the disorganization of cadres than by the number of men disabled. According to the reports of the Confederate generals themselves, they had no more than twenty thousand men answering the rolls, all of them exhausted by fatigue and hunger, discouraged by so many failures, and around whom was hovering a crowd of soldiers, scattered among the woods and along the roads, always ready to be carried away like a whirlwind by the least symptom of a panic, and threatening to communicate its contagion to those around them.

The retreat towards Corinth was painful and full of suffering. Along the road, huts, houses, churches, everything, had been