On the Confederate side, the Virginia�s crew didn�t get away unscathed.  In her unequal fight with the Congress, Cumberland, and Minnesota the previous day, the Virginia suffered several killed or wounded.  In contrast, her wooden-hulled victims suffered enormous losses.  The Cumberland alone lost over 100 men.  Before the ship went to the bottom, �all the wounded who could walk were ordered out of the cockpit; but those of the wounded who had been carried into the sick-bay and on the berthdeck were so mangled that it was impossible to save them.�--so recalled her acting commander.