This seems like another needless confusion of the situation by re-arranging numbers and bringing in extraneous issues.
Example: you just brought casualties "against Johnston" into a discussion of casualties against Lee.
Why? The questions I asked very carefully
excluded the period where Joe Johnston was involved against McClellan. Why are you now trying to introduce Johnston to the conversation?
In the numbers given by 67th Tigers are there any POWs included? If so, what is the justification for excluding the prisoners captured by Grant when Lee surrendered?
Example: 67th Tigers says Burnside sustained 12,653 casualties against Lee. These appear to be the "casualties" for the Battle of Fredericksburg (and nothing else). We can find the exact same number in Fox's Regimental Losses: 12,553. Fox breaks out that loss as being 1,284 Killed 9,600 Wounded 1,769 Missing. How many of those
1,769 Missing do you think were actually captured? Shouldn't they be removed from 67th Tigers' count if prisoners are not "casualties"?
Example: 67th Tigers says Hooker sustained 23,385 casualties against Lee. Fox's Regimental Losses says that the Battle of Chancellorsville looks like this: 1,606 Killed 9,762 Wounded 5,919 Missing 17,287 Total. Obviously there is a discrepancy there (6,098). That means he is including the cavalry actions at Brandy Station-Aldie-Middleburg-Upperville (totals 1,479 with 610 Missing). That leaves us 4,619 short, so it would appear he also included Winchester (95 Killed 348 Wounded 4,000 Missing for a total of 4,443). That is
10,529 Missing. How many of that 10,529 do you think were prisoners? Shouldn't they be removed from 67th Tigers' count if prisoners are not "casualties"?
I haven't gone through it, but the numbers claimed for McClellan do not seem right to me. 67th Tigers says :
| Inflicted | Sustained |
McClellan | 47,017 | 43,453 |
Using Fox's Regimental Losses, I quickly threw together these numbers:
Date | Battle | Killed | Wounded | Missing | Total |
June 25 | Oak Grove, | 67 | 504 | 55 | 626 |
June 26 | Mechanicsville, | 49 | 207 | 105 | 361 |
June 27 | Gaines's Mill, | 894 | 3,107 | 2,836 | 6,837 |
June 28 | Golding's Farm, | 37 | 227 | 104 | 368 |
June 29 | Savage Station, | 80 | 412 | 1,098 | 1,590 |
June 30 | Glendale, | 210 | 1,513 | 1,130 | 2,853 |
July 1 | Malvern Hill, | 397 | 2,092 | 725 | 3,214 |
Sept. 14 | Crampton's Gap, Md | 113 | 418 | 2 | 533 |
Sept. 14 | South Mountain, Md | 325 | 1,403 | 85 | 1,813 |
Sept. 17 | Antietam, Md | 2,108 | 9,549 | 753 | 12,410 |
Sept. 19, 20 | Shepherdstown Ford, Va | 71 | 161 | 131 | 363 |
Totals | | 4351 | 19593 | 7024 | 30968 |
That shows a big discrepancy with the 67th Tigers numbers. Instead of a "Sustained" number of 43,453 for 67th Tigers, I came up with 30,968. The difference is
12,485 "Sustained". Pretty clearly, 67th Tigers is including something else here. My guess is that he is including earlier actions that had nothing to do with Lee, such as Williamsburg, West Point and Seven Pines -- but even that leaves a gap, because those three would only come to 7,456. Where would the other 5,029 come from? How many of this 43,453 are "Missing"? How many of those are prisoners? Shouldn't they be removed from 67th Tigers' count if prisoners are not "casualties"?