From actual personal observation where we had driven the enemy from the field, and from what my surgeons, left with our wounded, learned in relation to the loss of the enemy, I am convinced that we killed more of his men than we lost in both killed and wounded.
Dodge expresses his belief that his forces inflicted more casualties on the enemy than they suffered themselves during a battle.
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