As the Confederates retreated south toward Waynesboro, Hunter entered Staunton the next day, destroyed military stores, and seized Confederate clothing and munitions depots. Days later he captured Lexington and burned the Virginia Military Institute. The battlefield at Piedmont was covered with the fallen, and more men were killed and wounded there, over 800 Union and 550 Confederate soldiers, than in any single engagement of Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign. In addition, over 1,000 Confederates were captured, a devastating loss of manpower for the South. Local families cared for many of the wounded, including Pvt. Peter Kite of the 39th Tennessee, who had been shot through the head and left for dead until an elderly Piedmont woman found him, took him into her home, and nursed him back to health. The Union army also established hospitals in the area. Sgt. James McNally of the 5th New York Heavy Artillery, serving as infantry, was severely wounded in the arm and taken to New Hope Presbyterian Church, where surgeons amputated the mangled limb, but when the army pulled out he was left behind, captured, and taken to Andersonville Prison in Georgia, though he survived. After the battle, Union Col. William Tibbits rode along the Confederate defensive line and found over a hundred wounded Confederates behind rail fortifications, many with flesh torn by splinters from rails shredded by cannon shells, while exploding shells had also set aflame the flesh of many Confederate dead. Union Sgt. George Setchell, seeing the same scene, wrote that he had heard of men being torn to pieces but never wanted to see such a sight again. Nearby, Tibbits saw wounded Confederates beneath a tree, their audible prayers and psalm singing in stark contrast to the roar of musketry that had raged all day.