ective company
and regimental commanders, or in such manner as may be deemed best by
Brigadier-General S.B. Buckner, and will receive two days' rations
preparatory to embarking for Cairo. Prisoners are to be allowed their
clothing, blankets, and such private property as may be carried about
the person, and commissioned officers will be allowed their side-arms."

There is disagreement as to the number of guns captured. There were
thirteen in the water-batteries and eight in the fort. Besides, there
were eight artillery companies, whose field-pieces were disposed in nine
positions along the line of intrenchments. Six of these companies were
those of Maney, Porter, Graves, Green, Guy, Jackson. The other two are
called Ross and Murray in the account in the Nashville _Patriot_, and
called Parker and French on the pen-sketch of the works showing the
position of the light batteries, found among the Confederate records.
The number of pieces in these batteries is not given. Badeau gives the
number of guns surrendered at sixty-five, and no reason is seen why that
is not correct.

There is no means of determining with any precision the number of the
garrison. General Grant, on the day of the surrender, reported the
number of prisoners taken as twelve to fifteen thousand. Badeau says the
number captured was 14,623; and that rations were issued at Cairo to
that number of prisoners taken at Fort Donelson. According to a report
or estimate made by Major Johnson, of the first Mississippi, and found
among his papers in Mississippi in 1864, the number "engaged" was
15,246, and the number surrendered 11,738. General Floyd gives no
estimate. General Pillow, in his brief to the Secretary of War of the
Confederacy, defending himself from charges, gives thirteen thousand as
about the number engaged in the defence; while General Buckner, in a
report made after he was exchanged, says the aggregate of the army
within the works was never greater than twelve thousand. An estimate
published in the Nashville _Patriot_ soon after the surrender makes the
number engaged 13,829.

Major Brown's estimate was evidently the most deliberate and careful,
yet it is not free from error. It is not accurate in the number of
casualties. The regimental reports made after the surrender are not
numerous, but they present some means of testing Major Brown's estimate.
According to that estimate, the Eighth Kentucky lost 19 killed and 41
wounded; according to the off