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ARMY OPERATIONS. 



STATISTICS OF BATTLES (Continued.) 



* Beside 59,378 prisoners paroled. 



As has been already said, the preceding 

 statements are chiefly designed to show, in a 

 tabular form, the more important engagements, 

 with the date on which they occurred. The 

 losses, when considered either comparatively 

 or as that of either side, in such a vast number 

 of actions, no one Would at present assume ac- 

 curately to state. An evidence of the difficulty 

 in obtaining results of this kind is shown iu 

 a recent number of "Harper's Magazine," in 

 which the accomplished editor thus estimates 

 the losses of the seven days' battles before 

 Richmond : 



Of the Confederate commanders, Jackson, D. II. 

 Hill, Longstreet, A. P. Hill, Holmes, and Pendleton, 

 give their exact losses. The losses of Magruder and 



Huger can be made up very closely from the reports 

 of their brigade commanders. Barksdale says that 

 " one-third of his brigade fell upon the field : it num- 

 bered about-2j400, which woula make the loss 800." 

 Cobb puts bis loss in killed and wounded at " nearly 

 500." McLaws, 97 killed, 456 wounded. D. R. Jones, 

 103 killed, 708 wounded. Ransom, 69 killed, 354 

 wounded. Mahone, 63 killed, 216 wounded. Armi- 

 stead.two regiments, estimated 320 killed and wound- 

 ed. Wright, 55 killed, 243 wounded. In all, 3,984; 

 of whom 656 were killed, and 8,328 wounded. Of the 

 cavalry and reserve artillery we find mention of about 

 20 killed and 104 wounded. The missing in A. P. 

 Hill's division are not given ; the number was evi- 

 dently small, probably about 100. In Magruder's 

 command \ve find about 400 missing in about two- 

 thirds of the brigades ; we set down the whole at 600. 

 From the foregoing data we have compiled the fol- 

 lowing table of killed, wounded, and missing: 



