Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4.
Henry Coppee , LL.D., Ed.

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[178] prisoners. The left wing, out of 22,882 men and officers present, had 7647 disabled, or about one-third of its effective force. The losses sustained by the right wing, except five brigades of whose condition we have not been able to obtain accounts, were 781 killed, 3780 wounded, and 378 prisoners. The estimation of losses in the entire army, including Forrest's cavalry, may be more than fifteen thousand men¹—of whom only seven or eight hundred were prisoners—together with fifteen pieces of artillery.

Generals Smith, Deshler, and Helm were killed, the latter the brother-in-law of President Lincoln. Five other generals were wounded; among them was the gallant Hood, who had not yet recovered from a serious wound received at Gettysburg.²

We have shown that which appeared to us to be worthy of praise or of blame in the conduct of the two armies during the undecided battle of the 19th. A few words will suffice us to criticise in like manner the operations of the second day. Bragg was the assailant, and yet he allowed his adversary all the time he wanted to make intrenchments. In consequence of orders which, not properly issued, were illy understood or illy executed, his right did not begin the fight before ten o'clock. Since he persisted in pushing his right forward, he should have caused his entire army to bear in that direction, so as to turn the positions which he could not carry on the preceding day. The attacks by Polk were conducted without method, without co-operation. The check he sustained was the consequence of this double fault, for which he was punished by the loss of his command. Longstreet, on the contrary, led his grand attack with consummate skill: he succeeded on the 20th as his lieutenant, Hood, had succeeded on the previous day. His success would have been complete if Polk had not used all his troops in useless assaults against the Federal left, and if Bragg, being more mindful of