[The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman Vol. I. Part 2 by William T. Sherman]@TWC D-Link bookThe Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman Vol. I. Part 2 CHAPTER XII 77/77
We reached Milliken's Bend January 21st. McClernand's report of the capture of Fort Hindman almost ignored the action of Porter's fleet altogether.
This was unfair, for I know that the admiral led his fleet in person in the river-attack, and that his guns silenced those of Fort Hindman, and drove the gunners into the ditch. The aggregate loss in my corps at Arkansas Post was five hundred and nineteen, viz., four officers and seventy-five men killed, thirty-four officers and four hundred and six men wounded.
I never knew the losses in the gunboat fleet, or in Morgan's corps; but they must have been less than in mine, which was more exposed.
The number of rebel dead must have been nearly one hundred and fifty; of prisoners, by actual count, we secured four thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and sent them north to St.Louis..
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