oops; and he says he took up the river with him 986,
officers and men, of the four Virginia regiments. Pillow reported, on
March 14th, that several thousand infantry had got out in one way or
other, many of whom were at that time with him at Decatur, Ala., and the
rest under orders to rendezvous there. They continued slipping out after
the surrender. General B.R. Johnson, on the Tuesday after the surrender,
not having reported or been enrolled as a prisoner, walked with a
fellow-officer out of the intrenchments at mid-day, and, not being
challenged, continued beyond the National camps and escaped. The
accounts of the escape by boat with Floyd, on horse with Forrest, and by
parties slipping out by day and by night through the forest and
undergrowth and the devious ravines, fairly show that 5,000 must have
escaped. There was scarcely a regiment or battery, if, indeed, there was
a single regiment or battery, from which some did not escape. Eleven
hundred and thirty-four wounded were sent up the river by boat the
evening before the surrender, and General Pillow estimated the killed at
over four hundred and fifty. This accounts for an aggregate of over
nineteen thousand five hundred, sufficiently near the estimate of
nineteen thousand six hundred--the number in the place during the siege,
and the additional four hundred, who arrived only in time to be
surrendered.

General Floyd surmised the killed and wounded to be fifteen hundred.
Pillow estimated them at two thousand. The National loss was, in
McClernand's division, 1,445 killed and wounded, and 74 missing; in C.F.
Smith's division, 306 killed, 1,045 wounded, and 167 missing; and in
Lewis Wallace's division, 39 killed, 248 wounded, and 5 missing--making
an aggregate of 3,329 killed, wounded, and missing. General Grant sat
down before the place Wednesday the 12th, at noon, with 15,000 men, and
with that number closed in upon the works and made vigorous assaults
next day. Reinforcements began to arrive at the landing Thursday
evening, and when the place surrendered his army had grown by
reinforcements to twenty-seven thousand. Grant had no artillery but the
eight field-batteries which he brought over from Fort Henry to Donelson.
These were not fixed in position and protected by earthworks, but were
moved from place to place and used as batteries in the field.

The defensive line from Columbus to Bowling Green, broken by the capture
of Fort Henry, was now shattered. General