Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-05-14
MISCELLANEOUS,
[From the Cincinnati Commercially
Losses in the Battle of Shiloh.

A correspondent, writing from Pittsburg
Landing, gives the official figures of our
loss during the two days battle The to-
tails are: killed, 1875; wounded, S.S82;
missing, 1886 Total killed, wounded and
missing, 1858. This is, at least, twenty
FIVE per cent. of our whole force engaged,
an extraordinary proportion.
The Memphis Argus of Saturday even
ing, the Goth, gives the losses suffered by
forty regiments of rebels, as shown by Off
cial reports. They foot up as follows -
Killed, 927; wounded, All; missing, 361.
The rebel regiments averaged little over
four hundred electives each. If they had
sixty thousand effectives in the fight, and
that is believed to be low estimate, they
had near one hundred and fifty regiments
engaged. Let US say, to avoid exaggera-
ton, that they had one hundred and forty
regiments. If all the regiments suffered
in proportion with those reported, the rebel
loss would be killed, 3,244; wounded, Is,
648; missing, 1878. Grand total, 20, 1875.
Of course these figures are in some de-
gree inaccurate. Let us again lower
the estimate of the rebel forces, and say
that the forty regiments comprised one third
Of their force and it is not at all reasonble
to suppose that they had less than one hun
dred and twenty regiments. Calculated
from this basis, upon the ratio given by the
official reports OF the enemy. there were
killed 2,7S1, wounded, l3, 3,413, missing l.
| 082. Total loss 17,2777 There is no reas
on to suppose that the enemy's regiments
which lost most heavily are those first re
ported. We have, for instance, before us
| the names of the killed of the Fifty fifth
Tennessee, regiment not included in the
report of the Argus, and they number six
| ignore than any one named in the Argus
| lost. The total number of rebels wounded
and unwounded who fell into our hands
was over a thousand These, with the
stragglers from the enemy's ranks, would
make up their missing, and in that partic
ular verify our estimate Our correspon-
dent writing from the battle field, three
weeks after the engagement, after long and
earnest search for the truth, says: Il deem
it safe to say that at least three thousand
Confederates we're gathered up by our bu-
rying parties IF the enemy lost in killed
three thousand, and the proportion between
the killed and wounded was the same as in
those regiments whose official returns are
printed, their loss in wounded was Ia, ,467;
and the missing, continuing this calculation,
would number 1.167. Total loss Is, ,634.
Our killed are in proportion to the woun-
ded as one to four and half The Rebel
killed, according to their official report, was
as one to four and two thirds
1t has been the impression of our troops,
gathered from the great number of Rebel
dead found on the field in proportion to the
wounded, that our wounded far out num-
bered theirs The first glimpse at the Reb-
ell official reports show this to have been a
mistake. Over three hundred died during
the first week after the battle And yet it is
impossible that the Rebel woundec could
have been as well cared for as ours. They
were obliged to haul their mangled masses
over terrible roads to Corinth, and thence
they could only be removed by cars. Our
wounded were, however, better cared for
than were the wounded in any great battle
ever fought at distance from a city. A
great many of our wounded were struck by
buckshct and round bullets, and their
wounds are not very severe. The wounded
of the enemy almost invariably suffered
from the terrible conical balls, and under
all the circumstances, most inevitably per-
ish by thousands.
Our loss in killed and wounded alone,
was nine thousand six hundred and seven.
teen. The enemy's loss in killed and woun.
ded-taking the account that three thou
sand were buried on the field, as probably
the most veritable estimate-was seventeen