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Casualties at the 1st Battle of Bull Run
CASUALTIES
Estimates of numbers of casualties engaged in Civil War battles
vary, and statistics on killed, wounded, captured, and missing are incomplete. Participants attempted to fill gaps as they
wrote their official reports, and historians have tried to refine the data. The reports of casualties at First Bull Run shown
in the Official Records are certainly inaccurate. Figures listed below do not include casualties incurred at Blackburn's Ford
on 17 July nor do they show missing-in-action figures for those soldiers who were absent for battle but eventually returned
to their units.
CASUALTIES AT FIRST
BULL RUN
|
Units |
Killed |
Wounded |
Missing |
|
Officers |
Enlisted |
Officers |
Enlisted |
Officers |
Enlisted |
|
Union |
|
Army of Northeastern Virginia |
|
1st Division |
7 |
143 |
19 |
260 |
19 |
415 |
|
2d Division |
6 |
120 |
16 |
281 |
13 |
333 |
|
3d Division |
6 |
182 |
33 |
444 |
20 |
896 |
|
4th Division |
(not engaged) |
|
5th Division |
0 |
6 |
2 |
16 |
0 |
97 |
|
Total |
19 |
451 |
70 |
1,001 |
52 |
1,741 |
|
Confederate |
|
Army of the Shenandoah |
6 |
99 |
29 |
490 |
0 |
12 |
|
Army of the Potomac |
19 |
263 |
34 |
1,029 |
1 |
0 |
|
Total |
25 |
362 |
63 |
1,519 |
1 |
12 |
|
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|
Grand Total |
44 |
813 |
133 |
2,520 |
53 |
1,753 |
Source: U.S. War Department, The War of the
Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Recommended Reading:
Battle of First Manassas; Battle
of First Bull Run
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