...rey, United States army, a friend of McClellan, writes in the Scribner Series Campaigns of the Civil War, page 64: General Lee reported his forces as less than 40,000, while his adjutant-general, Colonel Taylor , gives the exact number as 35.255; and on page 65: McClellan states in his official report that he had 87,164 men. Fourteen thousand of these, making a charge, were repulsed, staggered, reeled and re...