The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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The losses on both sides.

While the enemy has taken more prisoners than we have, we are certain that, estimating the entire losses in killed, wounded, and prisoners on both sides, the enemy's losses will exceed our's by a considerable amount. It is impossible to make out an entirely accurate statement, for the losses of the enemy in none of the battiest have been ascertained.--Several engagements have never received any notice at the hands of the Northern Government or press, it being their policy to conceal as much as possible, their disasters and to magnify their victories.

From the best date at our command, we have summed up the aggregates of killed, wounded, and prisoners on both sides, and they stand thus; Confederate loss, 22,557; Federal loss, 23,200; and in this estimate, we include on our side, the 800 men taken by Lyon at St. Louis. They were State troops, and were in the suburbs of the city undergoing military instruction. They had not assumed a position of hostility, to Lincoln, nor had they been tendered to the Southern Confederacy to aid its cause.

This estimate, though it may not be accurate, we have not a doubt, shows the truth, viz: that the enemy has lost more men in the battles of the present war than we have.