Third. The enormous straggling. The battle was fought with less than 30,000 men. Had all our stragglers been up, McClellan’s army would have been completely crushed or annihilated. Doubtless the want of shoes, the want of food, and physical exhaustion had kept many brave men from being with the army; but thousands of thieving poltroons had kept away from sheer cowardice. The straggler is generally a thief and always a coward, lost to all sense of shame; he can only be kept in ranks by a strict and sanguinary discipline.
List of casualties.
Command Killed. Wounded. Missing.
Rodes’ brigade 111 289 225
Ripley’s brigade 110 506 124
Garland’s brigade 46 210 187
Anderson’s brigade 64 299 202
Colquitt’s brigade 129 518 184
Artillery 4 30 3
Total 464 1,852 925
