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 |
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Officers |
Enlisted |
Officers |
Enlisted |
Officers |
Enlisted |
|
Union |
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Army of Northeastern Virginia |
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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 |
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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 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893) (hereafter cited as OR), ser. 1, vol. 2, pp. 351, 387, 405, 426, 570.
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