May 21, 1863, The Charleston Mercury
From the data furnished from the best informed sources, the Richmond Enquirer is enabled to give a fair estimate of our actual losses in the late battles of the Rappahannock. The estimate presents a total of 7,500 killed, wounded, and missing, subdivided as follows:
Killed………………………1,000
Wounded………………….4,900
Prisoners…………………..1,600
Total………………………..7,500
In the employment of round numbers, the Enquirer estimates in favor of probable losses not reported. The losses of the enemy are estimated variously at from ten to fifteen thousand in killed and wounded. Take either of these figures and add five thousand and three hundred prisoners, actually registered, and the difference in the two estimates will give some idea of how badly the enemy was whipped.
The Petersburg Express has it from a source entitled to the fullest credit, that the army of General HOOKER which crossed the Rappahannock recently, numbered 163,000 effective men. This comes from a gentleman who was in Washington not ten days since, and heard it there. General LEE defeated this enormous army with less than 70,000 men.