It is now impossible to state accurately our loss of life and men in any one separate battle; for the fighting was continuous, almost daily, among trees and bushes, on ground where one could rarely see a hundred yards ahead.
The aggregate loss in the several corps for the month of May is reported-as follows in the usual monthly returns sent to the Adjutant-General's office, which are, therefore, official: Casualties during the Month of May, 1864 (Major-General SHERMAN commanding).
Killed and Missing.

Wounded.

Total.
1,863 7,436 9,299 General Joseph E.

Johnston, in his "Narrative of his Military Operations," just published (March 27, 1874), gives the effective strength of his army at and about Dalton on the 1st of May, 1864 (page 302), as follows: Infantry.....................

37,652 Artillery....................