The count of dead and wounded was ghastly: 22,717 men, 10,316 for the Confederacy and 12,401 for the Union. It remains the highest count for a single day in any American war. Jackson, in the cornfield and West Woods, had fought the single bloodiest part of it. This was in spite of the rather remarkable fact that McClellan had committed only 50,000 men to the fight. A third of his army never fired a shot.
