11-1 APISNDIX. I do not think the Prince exaggerates the losses of the enemy in this sanguinary flight. There were published in the Richmond papers, detailed brigade and regimental reports of tlie losses in sixty out of seven tv-two organizations, regiments, battalions and companies mentioned as taking part in the en- gogements. 1 computed these losses as they were published. The sum total was 6,732 killed, wounded and missing. The ‘•Richmond Enquirer” nevertheless, which had published these very lists, relying I suppose upon the arithmetical indolence of its readers, coolly announced the entire loss of the confederates on the 31st May and 1st June to have been but 2,300 men! The official report was about 4,300. As to the rain storm of May 30th, the Prince may well speak of it as “ terrible.” Never, even in the tropics, have I seen a more sudden and sweeping deluge. The creek which flowed at the bottom of the hill below the house in which I lived, and over which in ordinary times, a boy might easily leap, tilled the valley on the morning of May 31st, with a shallow lake more than 100 yards in width. Many confederate officers consoled themselves for the results of the battle of Kail- Oaks; or Seven Pines as it is called at the South, by the consideration that in wounding General Johnston, and so compelling Mr. Davis to allow the command of the main army in the field to devolve upon General Lee, the federals had rendered them a great service. This was because the southern army under Johnston, was known to be suffering severely in numbers and morale from the same laxity in organization for which the Prince, in so friendly a spirit, finds fault with our own forces. Lee was considered, I rhould sav, to have more of the talent essential for organiza- tiou than any man in the service of the South.
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