John Bagwell was most likely to have been wounded on 1 July and captured as a prisoner in a hospital after the retreat of the Confederate army, on 5 July. The 14th took into battle at Gettysburg about 31 officers and 397 enlisted men, and lost over 200 casualties, principally on 1 July. Only a few became casualties on 2 July during skirmishing along Long Lane, and maybe 25-30 more on 3 July. On the late afternoon of 1 July, after the heavy fighting was over that day, the regiment could muster only 82 guns, but it would have recovered to perhaps 200 or so during the day on 2 July, including slightly wounded men who were able to return to the ranks. In Company K for instance, 34 out of 39 men fell at the first fire on 1 July. Company B entered the fight with 54 men and had 8 when the battle was over, including 16 men killed. John Bagwell is recorded as being in Company C, the "Raiborn Company" from Laurens County. In Company C, Captain George W. Culbertson was wounded, and 2nd Lieutenant J. C. Poll was mortally wounded, succumbing on 16 July. Other wounded men in John's company included Privates John Abercrombie, J. Bramlett, Adison D. Martin, Wade Hampton Phillips, and John Robert Smith, Jr.