The heaviest losses as a % were from Matheny's Brigade, which charged up the Willow Road against Capt. Hudson's Battery and fought at the junction. The other regiments with heavy losses as a % were engaged along the creek north of Willow Road in both attacks, against Capt. Sides' Battery, Capt. Hudson's Battery, Hammond's Brigade and later Clay's Brigade.
The heaviest losses numerically were in the 81st Georgia, which fought against Wood's Brigade just south of the Willow Road.
The heaviest losses by total casualties for the Confederate II Corps at Tulip Creek, May 10th:
1. 81st Georgia (Williamson's Brigade): 160 men
2. 23rd Missouri (Black's Brigade): 141 men
3. 83rd Alabama (Parish's Brigade): 139 men
4. 34th Texas (Wales' Brigade): 136 men
5. 34th South Carolina (Matheny's Brigade): 132 men
The heaviest losses as a % of men engaged:
1. 29th South Carolina (Matheny's Brigade): 43%
2. 34th South Carolina (Matheny's Brigade): 39%
3. 10th Kentucky (Bieber's Brigade): 37%
4. 23rd Missouri (Black's Brigade): 26%
5. 20th Missouri (Black's Brigade): 25%
6. 13th Kentucky (Bieber's Brigade): 25%
Heaviest Loss by a Brigade: Black's Missouri Brigade (2/2/II): 497 (91k, 334w, 72m)
Loss of Regimental Commanders:
83rd Alabama Infantry, Colonel Eldridge Brasher, wounded
81st Georgia Infantry: Colonel Thomas Gallagher,
killed
86th Georgia Infantry: Lieutenant Colonel Daniel
Kane, killed
29th South Carolina Infantry: Captain Hugh Rodgers,
wounded
34th South Carolina Infantry: Colonel Benjamin F.
Miller, wounded
10th Kentucky Infantry: Colonel Henry Watson,
captured
11th Kentucky Infantry: Colonel Jesse Weaver,
killed
13th Kentucky Infantry: Colonel Ashkinz Shappee, killed
20th Missouri: Lieutenant Colonel Rufus G. Brown,
wounded
23rd Missouri Infantry: Colonel Travis Hawthorn,
killed
12th Florida Infantry: Colonel George Walters,
wounded; Lieutenant Colonel Jason Connors, killed
34th Texas Infantry: Colonel Joseph Armbruster,
wounded
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