1,007
Getty's Division 296

Third Corps Whipple's Division 129

Griffin's Division 926
Fifth Corps Sykes' Division 228
Humphrey's Division 1,019
Engineers and Reserve Artillery, etc. 79
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Total 7,817
Grand Total (including 877 officers) 12,647
(589 prisoners)

The Confederates showed 5309 casualties out of less than 30,000
actually engaged.

LEFT WING--LONGSTREET
Ransom's Division 535
First Corps McLaws' Division 858
Anderson's Division 159
Artillery 37
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(1,224 on December 12.) Total 1,589

CENTRE
First Corps Pickett's Division 54
Hood's Division 251
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Total 305

RIGHT WING--JACKSON
Light Division 2,120
Early's Division 932
D.H. Hill's Division 173
Taliaferro's Division 190
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Total (including 500 captured) 3,415

No attempt was made by the Confederates to follow the enemy across
the Rappahannock. The upper fords were open; but the river was rising
fast, and the Army of the Potomac, closely concentrated and within a
few miles of Aquia Creek, was too large to be attacked, and too close
to its base to permit effective manoeuvres, which might induce it to
divide, against its line of communications. The exultation of the
Southern soldiers in their easy victory was dashed by disappointment.
Burnside's escape had demonstrated the fallacy of one of the
so-called rules of war. The great river which lay behind him during
the battle of Fredericksburg had proved his salvation instead of--as
it theoretically should--his ruin. Over the six bridges his troops
had more lines of retreat than is usually the case when roads only
are available; and these lines of retreat were secure, protected from
the Confederate cavalry by the river, and from the infantry and
artillery by the batteries on the Stafford Heights. Had the battle
been