Existing comment:
The Battle Grew After Fighting Ended:
"... don't be deceived as to the number killed by us."
-- Colonel TT Garrard
Exaggerated Accounts:
After the battle, stories grew regarding the number of soldiers killed and wounded.
"The loss of the enemy is not known to us, it is variously estimated at from fifty to three hundred."
-- DC Seales, 20th Tennessee Infantry
"The people of London say that the rebels passed through this town with forty-three wagon loads of dead and wounded..."
-- Oliver Ogilvie, 14th Ohio Infantry
The Boston Courier reported a thousand Confederate casualties!
The Official Toll:
The official count was 15 killed and 60 wounded.
"Our loss was 42 wounded and 11 killed and missing."
-- General Felix Zollicoffer, Commander of Confederate Forces at Wildcat
"Our loss yesterday was ascertained to be 4 killed and 18 wounded."
-- General Albin Schoepf, Commander of Union Forces at Wildcat |