Eicher, p. 428,[full citation needed] Livermore p. 97.[full citation needed] The NPSArchived August 24, 2010, at the Wayback Machine cites total casualties of Union 13,249, Confederate 10,266. Kennedy, p. 154,[full citation needed] cites Union 13,000, Confederate 10,000. Street, p. 159,[full citation needed] cites killed and wounded as 9,532 Union, 9,239 Confederate. McWhiney, p. 372, n. 71,[full citation needed] approximates Confederate losses as 1,274 killed, 7,969 wounded, and 1,071 captured or missing; the latter number is lower than other sources because McWhiney believes other historians double-counted the wounded left at Murfreesboro.
Cozzens, pp. 151–66; Eicher, p. 424; Daniel, pp. 215–16; McDonough, pp. 210–15; Kennedy, p. 153; Foote, pp. 191–92; Hell's Half Acre, NPS Stones River site. Cozzens does not refer to "Hell's Half Acre," but to the ground in front of the 31st Indiana, covered with the dead and wounded of Brig. Gen. James R. Chalmers's Mississippi Brigade, as the "Mississippi Half-Acre" (p. 153).
Welcher, pp. 817–18; Esposito, text for map 83; McDonough, pp. 317–18; Daniel, pp. 213, 223. For the dates of the battle, see, for instance, the NPS battle summary.
Crittenden, p. 634; Daniel, p. 223. This is a playful modification of the expression "Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better," which Rosecrans may have read in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel, Great Expectations, chapter 18. The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs lists examples of this expression, which means "Tenacity and quietness of manner are preferable to ostentation," dating from 1709.
Eicher, p. 428,[full citation needed] Livermore p. 97.[full citation needed] The NPSArchived August 24, 2010, at the Wayback Machine cites total casualties of Union 13,249, Confederate 10,266. Kennedy, p. 154,[full citation needed] cites Union 13,000, Confederate 10,000. Street, p. 159,[full citation needed] cites killed and wounded as 9,532 Union, 9,239 Confederate. McWhiney, p. 372, n. 71,[full citation needed] approximates Confederate losses as 1,274 killed, 7,969 wounded, and 1,071 captured or missing; the latter number is lower than other sources because McWhiney believes other historians double-counted the wounded left at Murfreesboro.
