 The Confederates counted some 5 @,@ 650 casualties . Some 30 @,@ 000 Confederates engaged that day , though several thousand more endured the Union shelling . Whiting 's unit suffered 175 casualties in the Malvern Hill conflict , even though they had limited involvement in the assaults . Charles Winder 's brigade of just over 1 @,@ 000 men suffered 104 casualties in their short involvement in the battle . D. H. Hill spent days removing the wounded , burying the dead and cleaning up the battlefield , with help from Magruder and Huger 's units . One of D. H. Hill 's brigades lost 41 percent of its strength at Malvern Hill alone . He later estimated that more than half of all the Confederate killed and wounded at Malvern Hill were as a result of artillery fire . 
