One hundred and thirty were killed on the spot.

Seventeen commissioned officers were killed, and four mortally wounded.

"This loss of officers," said their general, "is still more heavy on account of their value than their numbers." Among the slain was Lieutenant Colonel Campbell, who received a mortal wound while leading the Virginia brigade to that bold and decisive charge which broke the adverse line.
The loss of the British army was stated by themselves at six hundred and ninety-three men, of whom only eighty-five were killed in the field.

If this statement be correct,[6] the American dead greatly exceeded that of the adversary, which was probably the fact, as the carnage of the former, during their unavailing efforts to dislodge the latter from the house and strong adjoining ground, was immense.
[Footnote 6: The British accounts acknowledge only two hundred and fifty-seven missing; but General Greene, in his letter of the ninth of September, says, that including seventy wounded who were left at Eutaw, he made five hundred prisoners.] Each party had pretensions to the victory, and each claimed the merit of having gained it with inferior numbers.

The truth probably is that their numbers were nearly equal.
Nor can the claim of either to the victory be pronounced unequivocal.
Unconnected with its consequences, the fortune of the day was nearly balanced.