FT. DONELSON, via CAIRO, Feb. 20. – The number of field pieces taken in the Union victory here is much larger than heretofore telegraphed. We have at least 70 guns. Among them are bronze and iron rifled pieces of English manufacture. Taylor’s battery captured a beautiful riffled piece, an intimation of the Parrott, made in England, and 2 bronze rifled pieces.
The prisoners will amount to full 15,000, all contrary assertions notwithstanding.
The small arms captured amount to 20,000.
So far as I can ascertain, our loss is:
49th Illinois, killed and wounded, 40.
Taylor’s Battery, 1 killed and 4 wounded.
18th Illinois, Killed 45; about 60 wounded.
17th Illinois, killed 4, wounded 20.
12th Iowa killed 3, wounded 64.
58th Ohio, wounded 8.
14th Iowa, 6 killed, 50 wounded.
2nd Iowa, 38 killed, 150 wounded.
9th Illinois, 35 killed, 60 wounded.
41st Illinois, 17 killed, 140 wounded.
20th Illinois, 21 killed, 118 wounded.
30th Illinois, 19 killed, 71 wounded.
8th Illinois, 56 killed, 186 wounded.
21st Illinois, 40 killed, 200 wounded.
12th Illinois, 35 killed, 109 wounded.
It is utterly impossible, as yet to make out anything like a full list of the names of the killed and wounded. I will send them to you as soon as they can be made out by the officers.
The number of Rebels killed, is at the least calculation 800, and their wounded more than double that number.
Other important movements are now on foot in this region. Keep your ears open for stirring news.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 3
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