The Pittsburg correspondent of the Chicago Times writes, on the 20th:
The work of burial is complete, and the returns show over six thousand killed, of whom four thousand and four hundred were rebels. It is difficult to account for this, but the rebel dead are undoubtedly double our own number. In estimating the mortality, the fatally wounded must be added to this number, swelling it to over seven thousand killed in the battle. In addition there are eight thousand of our men in the hospitals, who were wounded in the battle. We have no means of knowing how many of the enemy are wounded but undoubtedly the number is as great as ours. Seven thousand killed and sixteen thousand wounded gives a total of twenty three thousand wounded men disabled in the great battle of Shiloh.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 3
The work of burial is complete, and the returns show over six thousand killed, of whom four thousand and four hundred were rebels. It is difficult to account for this, but the rebel dead are undoubtedly double our own number. In estimating the mortality, the fatally wounded must be added to this number, swelling it to over seven thousand killed in the battle. In addition there are eight thousand of our men in the hospitals, who were wounded in the battle. We have no means of knowing how many of the enemy are wounded but undoubtedly the number is as great as ours. Seven thousand killed and sixteen thousand wounded gives a total of twenty three thousand wounded men disabled in the great battle of Shiloh.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 3
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