It was a mortifying spectacle, but from that day no officer in that division ever abandoned his colors.
My effective force in the battle of Stone River was 4,154 officers and men.

Of this number I lost 1,633 killed, wounded, and missing, or nearly 40 per cent.

In the remaining years of the war, though often engaged in most severe contests, I never experienced in any of my commands so high a rate of casualties.

The ratio of loss in the whole of Rosecrans's army was also high, and Bragg's losses were almost equally great.

Rosecrans carried into the action about 42,000 officers and men.