not a consolidated return,
but a collection of footings of regimental returns, the nearest in date
attainable to April 6th, for the most part furnished by the War
Department to Colonel Johnson, the rest either taken from reports of
State adjutant-generals, or else estimated. The statement includes the
Fourteenth Wisconsin and the Fifteenth Michigan, neither of which
arrived till after the close of Sunday's battle.[3] Deducting the
"present for duty" given for these, 1,488, leaves, in round numbers, as
in General Johnston's army, 40,000. But "present for duty" in the
returns of the National forces, includes musicians, buglers, artificers,
etc.; all men present for the duty for which they were enlisted. The
army was clothed with music. There were 72 regiments present, including
those which arrived Sunday morning. The field music of 720 companies,
with the buglers of cavalry and artillery, made about three thousand
men. Besides these there were bands so numerous that an order was
shortly afterward made, restricting the number of bands to one to each
brigade. Where the battle reports give the number taken into action, the
difference in the number given and the number of "present for duty," as
given by the War Department to Colonel Johnston, suggests that many had
gone on to the sick list, or been detailed, between the date of the
return and April 6th; or that many men present for duty were left behind
in camp. Probably all were true, and thirty-three thousand or thirty-two
thousand is the number of officers, non-commissioned officers, and
privates actually engaged in Sunday's battle on the National side. The
reinforcements of Monday numbered, of Buell's army, about twenty
thousand; Lewis Wallace, sixty-five hundred; other regiments, about
fourteen hundred.

[Footnote 3: This is a mistake as to the Fifteenth Michigan, which lost,
Sunday, 33 killed, 64 wounded, and 7 missing.]

There ought to be no uncertainty in the reports of casualties. Yet,
while the general result is clear, precision in detail is now hardly
attainable. General Beauregard's report gives his loss as 1,728 killed,
8,012 wounded, and 959 missing; making an aggregate of 10,699. Of the
reported missing, many were killed or wounded. These numbers are the
aggregate of losses reported by brigades. They cannot include casualties
at division, corps, or army headquarters, happening either to the
generals commanding, or to the officers on their staff, or to enliste