What the casualty lists indicate.
The casualty lists of the
Confederates are very imperfect, but enough is given, with the
Federal losses, to dispel the idea that our advance was unresisted.
Of
Early's corps proper the losses are given for only one brigade—
Grimes' (North Carolina) of
Ramseur's division.
It lost 119 men killed and wounded.
Three brigades of
Kershaw's division sustained losses as follows:
Connor's (South Carolina), killed and wounded, 185, missing, 205;
Simms' (
Georgia), ‘about 200 killed and wounded.’
This probably includes the ‘missing.’
Humphrey's, 117 killed and wounded, 67 missing; most of the missing were killed or wounded.
The brigades were all small.
Connor had about 1,250 officers and men in line;
Simms about 600, and
Humphreys about 500.
It will be readily seen that their casualties, while not extraordinarily heavy for Confederate troops, do not sustain the character of the advance as pictured in
Gordon's war reminiscences.
They were mostly sustained before the evening fight and rout.
The casualties of the
Union troops tell with even greater emphasis that they were in a fight as well as a foot race.
The Sixth corps lost 2,26; the Nineteenth, 2,368; the Eighth, 960; cavalry, 196—total, 5,665; of which over 4,000 were killed and wounded.
The Nineteenth corps losses were practically all sustained in the morning, when assailed by
Kershaw.
