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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 11 (search)
where it was exposed to the fire of about fifty guns; and by the turning of his line of skirmishers. That of Cheatham's was principally in the reserve, which fought in open ground, unprotected by intrenchments. From the number One thousand. The ordinary proportion of one killed to five wounded gives six thousand. of dead counted from his breastworks, Lieutenant-General Hardee estimated the loss of the troops engaged with his corps at five thousand; and in his official report, dated July 30th, Major-General Loring estimated that of the Army of the Tennessee, which assailed his corps, at twenty-five hundred. I think that the estimate of Northern officers of their killed and wounded on that occasion, near three thousand, does great injustice to the character of General Sherman's army. Such a loss, in the large force that must have been furnished for a decisive and general attack by an army of almost a hundred thousand men, would have been utterly insignificant --too trifling