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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 16 (search)
y than he received. That is probably an overestimate: since he admits a total loss, while across the Rappahannock, of no less than 17,197 men — as follows: Sedgwick's (6th) Corps,4,601 Slocum's (12th) Corps,2,883 Couch's (2d) Corps,2,025 Reynolds's (1st) Corps,292 Sickles's (3d) corps,4,089 Howard's (11th) corps,2,508 Meade's (5th) corps,699 Cavalry, &c.150 He adds that a Rebel surgeon at Richmond stated the loss of their side in these struggles at 18,000 43 Among them, Gen. Paxton, killed and Gen. Heth, wounded. and it is significant that no official statement of their losses was ever made, and that Pollard is silent on the subject. It is quite probable that, while the prestige of success was wholly with the Rebels, their losses were actually more exhausting than ours. And the violent storm and consequent flood which attended and covered Hooker's recrossing, setting some of his pontoons adrift and threatening to separate him from his resources, is cited on one si