He gives the number at 17,000.

But this must be an underestimate.

The commissary general of prisoners reported having issued rations to 14,623 Fort Donelson prisoners at Cairo, as they passed that point.

General Pillow reported the killed and wounded at 2,000; but he had less opportunity of knowing the actual numbers than the officers of McClernand's division, for most of the killed and wounded fell outside their works, in front of that division, and were buried or cared for by Buckner after the surrender and when Pillow was a fugitive.

It is known that Floyd and Pillow escaped during the night of the 15th, taking with them not less than 3,000 men.