The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-11-06
Losses of the Two Armies---The Balance
Sheet,

Losses of the Two Armies---The Balance
Sheet.
The Richmond Dispatch contains long
and interesting exhibit of the losses of the
two armies, from the crossing of the Rapidan
to tho close Of recent operations on the Po-
tomac. We give an extract:
The government has accurate lists OF our
killed, wounded and missing. From the
Raridan, all through the campaign to Har-
per's Ferry, they nlmber about j 500. At
Sharpsburg our loss WAS about OOO But
suppose we ad lost 5000, as McClellan's
lying reports indicate. Suppose. too. he lost
no msre than he allows, that is to say. A.
796 mon. at Sharpsburs and the preceding
engagements. Still his campaign is an I'M
profitable one, for his losses are nearly as
great as ours, even according to this state
ment. At Harrer's Ferry he lost IL 500; at
Sharpsburg IA 796. at Harper's Ferry asaln.
1900 killed. Here his losses are 20 796 cor
tain part ascertained from his own state
ment, part from the statements of our Gen
grassland be does not claim to have ;ntl'ct
eG on us loss Of more than 10000 bal
ance in his favor 2O4 men. He clams thir-
teen guns. We took seventy three at Har-
per's Ferry. Balance in our favor. sixty
guns. Taking he whole campaign. even
even on this statement. flom the Rapidan to
Winchester, it is enormously in our iavor.-
Still more is it when We look at it
through the medium Of other statements,
combined with his.
Let us see what will be the result if we
take our own statements for our losses and
their statements of their losses.
Our loss in the whole campaign, from the
Rapdan to the recfos~ins into Virginia, was,
according to the statement of Mr.. Croker,
about II 500 killed, wounded and missing
The Yankee loss at Harper's Ferry was, &C
cord,ng to the own admission, the same
These two then balance each other and al
the rest is clear gain to us. First, they adj
nit loss Of 3 900 at Cedar Ran; Obey ac-
tuallv lost more-nearly oOO) Pope saws
hav lost ~ he h,rtl. of IN 20 / If August.
600 The B,ltimore Aulerc M Sun
1--WE do not recollect which but W publ,-h i.
e'i the statement at the time says thew lost
II 600 in all the campaign up'o the second
battle Of Manassas which would give SIX
thousand for the battle Of rho % h Pope,
we believe. saws they lost z 900 At Manassas.
General Lee, by tn bv p,rplei that mum
Der or the tield) Mcclellan says they lost
IA 796 at South Mountain and Antietam.
Lastly, at the crossing. when thew were at
tack ed BY A p. Hill. they lost 3 OOO killed
w"un led and missing Total. in round
numbers, acc riding to their Own staten ents,
with re ard to tn cir own losses, ~ 900 clear
balance in our favor.
But the real loss was far greater. G,n-
eral Lee p,roei Z 900 prisoners on the field
Of battle at Manassas. Three thousand
wounded prisoners who were captured bv us
had not had their wounds dressed on the
third day after the battles. Every man who
saw the field saws there were at least five
dead or wounded Yankees to one Confeder-
ate. Every man who saw the field OF
Sharpsburg says there were five or six Yam
KEGS lying there to one Confederate. A cor.
respondent Of the New York Tribune says
Mcclellan lost % 600 men there. This. we
! have no doubt. is within the mark; for Nc
Clellan has never yet acknowledged the ball
| Of his loss a single occasion. His loss on
! the 18th all Confederate accounts put down
as at least 5000. Here. then. is state
ment of what we believe to be very nearly
/ the loss Of the Yankees since ackson frs
/ crossed the Rapidan:
From the Rapidan to seth of Aug. 10000
Battle 3Oih August 27OOC
/ BAttl. 18th September 5000