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and a half days. It was terrible odds, but we whipped them, as their generals acknowledged.
When has our Western army ever been beaten?
The loss of our regiment, in killed, wounded and missing, (including five prisoners,) will reach eighty to ninety.
Our total loss killed, wounded and prisoners, will not fall much, if any, short of one thousand two hundred.
The rebels acknowledge a loss of wounded equal to ours, and of killed of three to two.
We estimate their total loss at near two thousand.
While we were yet on the hill our Lieutenant-Colonel was wounded, and after rallying the regiment in the field, was compelled to leave us. But the Colonel commanding the brigade which we charged sent word to him that his men fought nobly.
So much for what the rebels think and say of the Thirty-seventh Illinois. Gen. Herron said we did the best fighting of any regiment on the field.
All did most nobly.
The rebels lost General Stein and several Colonels, etc., killed.
Our regiment captured one standard of rebel colors, and brought off the standard of the Twentieth Wisconsin, left on the field.
Thus have we fought and conquered.
W. P. B.
