...nted this question at the gathering of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and Confederates at Chattanooga in 1881: Waterloo was one of the most desperate and bloody fields chronicled in European history, yet Wellington's casualties were less than twelve per cent., his losses being 2,432 killed and 9,528 wounded out of 90,000 men; while at Shiloh, the first great battle in which General Grant...