| POSITION | BRIGADE | PRESENT | KILLED | WOUNDED | MISSING | total | PERCENT |
| Front right | Rodes | 2200 | 241 | 853 | 5 | 1099 | 50 |
| Front left | Garland | 2065 | 98 | 600 | 42 | 740 | 37 |
| Rear left | Anderson, G. B. | 1865 | 149 | 680 | 37 | 866 | 47 |
| 6130 | 488 | 2133 | 84 | 2705 | 44 |
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fight on this road cannot amount to more than a bloody draw, prolonged until night.
That is what any one, knowing the conditions, might have predicted, and that is just what happened.
To follow all the details is useless, but the list of casualties, and some brief descriptions of incidents will give a good idea of the fighting.
The Confederate reports of casualties, particularly in battles fought during active campaigns, are far from being full, and are not at all uniform in their shape and detail.
Complete figures, therefore, for the whole division cannot be given.
Of Rains's brigade, the official report only states that its losses were one-seventh of the force.
The reports show that this brigade was employed in a flank movement around the enemy's left which it executed successfully, but did not repeat it. Hill expressed disappointment and says that Rains might have saved Rodes's brigade from suffering 500 casualties.1 Rains fought on the left.
Had Longstreet's division that morning not gone astray, all of its brigades would have been on the enemy's flank, and have had similar chances.
The other three brigades reported their strength and losses as follows:—
This record shows great fighting power, and will compare favorably for a half-day's fighting of an equal body of men, with any records of the war.
1 Rains was a graduate of West Point of class of 1827, and was now fifty-nine years of age. He had had some Indian fighting in Florida, and had been wounded, but he was not in the Mexican War. He was an expert and enthusiast upon explosives, and, soon after the action at Seven Pines, he was relieved of his brigade and assigned to the Torpedo Bureau, which was organized for submarine defence of our rivers and harbors.
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