CHAPTER 1.8.
The exact losses at Kernstown were as follows: -
BY BRIGADE: COLUMN 1: BRIGADE. COLUMN 2: KILLED. COLUMN 3: WOUNDED. COLUMN 4: MISSING. COLUMN 5: TOTAL.
CONFEDERATES. Stonewall Brigade : 40 : 151 : 152 : 343. Burke's
Brigade : 24 : 114 : 39 : 177. Fulkerson's Brigade : 15 : 76 : 71 :
162. Cavalry : 1 : 17 : - : 18. Artillery
: - : 17 : 1 : 18.
BY REGIMENT. COLUMN 1: REGIMENT. COLUMN 2: STRENGTH. COLUMN 3: KILLED. COLUMN 4: WOUNDED. COLUMN 5: MISSING. COLUMN 6: TOTAL.
2nd Virginia : 320 N.C.O. and men : 6 : 33 : 51 : 90 4th Virginia : 203 N.C.O. and men : 5 : 23 : 48 : 76 5th Virginia : 450 N.C.O. and men : 9 : 48 : 4 : 61 27th Virginia : 170 N.C.O. and men : 2 : 20 : 35 : 57 33rd Virginia : 275 N.C.O. and men : 18 : 27 : 14 : 59 21st Virginia : 270 officers and men : 7 : 44 : 9 : 60 42nd Virginia : 293 officers and men : 11 : 50 : 9 : 70 1st Virginia : 187 officers and men : 6 : 20 : 21 : 47 23rd Virginia : 177 officers and men : 3 : 14 : 32 : 49 27th Virginia : 897 N.C.O. and men : 12 : 62 : 39 : 113
Total casualties = 718: 80 killed including 5 officers. 375 wounded including 22 officers. 263 missing including 10 officers. 13 per cent killed and wounded. 20 per cent killed, wounded and missing.
FEDERALS.
Total casualties = 590: 118 killed including 6 officers. 450 wounded including 27 officers. 22 missing. 6 per cent.
According to the reports of his regimental commanders, Jackson took into battle (including 48th Virginia) 3087 N.C.O. and men of infantry, 290 cavalry, and 27 guns. 2742 infantry, 290 cavalry, and 18 guns were engaged, and his total strength, including officers, was probably about 3500. Shields, in his first report of the battle, put down the strength of his own division as between 7000 and 8000 men. Four days later he declared that it did not exceed 7000, namely 6000 infantry, 750 cavalry, and 24 guns. It is probable that only those actually engaged are included in this estimate, for on March 17 he reported the strength of the troops which were present at Kernstown six days later as 8374 infantry, 608 artillerymen, and 780 cavalry; total, 9752.* (* O.R. volume 12 part 3 page 4.)