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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
tes were, in the main, poorly armed, and as they assailed the enemy behind breastworks their loss was much larger than the Federals. Comte-de-Paris, in his Civil War in America, Vol. II, p. 76, gives us General McClellan's army report for June 20, 1862, six days before the battle opened, and his total present was 156,838, while his present for duty was 115,102. This seems a great disproportion between present and present for duty, but we accept this as the number that were engaged in battl00. General McClellan, in his letter to the Secretary of War July 3, 1862, says, it is impossible to estimate our losses, but I doubt whether there are to-day more than 50,000 men with their colors. If the report of General McClellan of June 20, 1862, is correct, then here are 115,102 Federal soldiers who, after fighting seven days against 82,000 to 85,000 Confederates, find themselves thirty miles further from Richmond than when the battle commenced. Verily, this was not one of the batt