At daybreak on Sunday morning after the Battle of Pleasant Hill, the field and the Shreveport Road were strewn with dead horses, broken muskets, bloodstained cartridge boxes, and the bodies of Union and Confederate soldiers lying side by side. Many badly wounded Confederate soldiers lay unable to move, dying for want of water, and their cries for relief made the scene especially heartrending. Among the dead was a loyal sergeant still clutching his rifle, and a young Union soldier, probably not more than 19 years old, whose body had been stripped of valuables and whose heart had been pierced by a bullet; nearby lay the mutilated body of an older man with terrible shell and bullet wounds. In front of the belt of woods from which Confederate forces had emerged, near a deep ditch, their dead lay in groups, showing the severity of the slaughter there. Some Union bodies had been brutally violated. Union losses were estimated at not more than 3,500 killed, wounded, and missing, and a number of wounded men were left in houses in Pleasant Hill under the care of two surgeons.