Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-08
The Losses of the Two Armies-A Re-
bel Ba lance sheet.


The Richmond Dispatch PROCESSES to give an
exhibit of the losses of the two armies from the
crossing of the Rapidan to the close of the re-
cent operations on the Potomac The following
is an extract:
The Government has accurate lists OF our
killed, wounded and missing. From the Rap-
dan. all through the campaign to Harper's Ferry,
they number about III 500. At Sharpsburg our
loss was about 1000. But suppose We had lost
30 OO0, as McClellan's living reports Indicate.
Suppose. too, he lost no more than he allows,
that is to say IA, 1856 men. at Sharpsburg aud the
preceding engagements. Still his ca mpaign is an
Improbable one for his losses are nearly as great
as ours, even according to this statement. at
Harper's Ferry he lost ii 500; at Sharpsburg
1896; at Harpers Ferry again. 5000 killed.
Here his losses are %. 796 certain-part ascer
tanned from his own statement, part from the
statements of our Generals-and he does not
claim TO have inflicted on Us loss of more than
30 0OO-balance in his favor 204 men. He claims
thirteen guns. We took seventy three at Harper ;
Ferry. Balance in our favor, sixty guns. TAX
ing the whole campaign, even on this statement,
from the Rapidan To Winchester, it is enormously
in our favor. Still more is it so when we look at
it through the medium OF other statements, com
bined with his
''Let us see what will be the result if we Ia Ike
our own statements for our losses, and their
statements of their losses.
"0ur loss in the whole campaign, from the
Rapdan to the recrossing into Virginia, was ac-
cording to the statement of Mr.. Croker, about
/ 500 killed, wounded and missing The Yam
kee loss Harper's Ferry was. according to their
admission, the same. These two then balance
each Other, and all the rest is clear gain to us.
First, they admit n loss of 1900 at Cedar Run:
(they actually lost more-nearly 7O00) POPE
says they lost in the battle of the Doth OF August
5000 The Baltimore american or San-we do
not recollect which, but we published the state
ment at the time-says they lost IL 600 in all the
campaign up to the second battle of Manassas,
which would give 5000 for the battle of the 2Sth
Pope, we believe, says they lost 1000 at Manas-
sas. Gen Lee. by the-by, paroled that number
on the field) Mcclellan says they lost Ia, 796
at South Mountain and Antietam. Lastly, at
the crossing, when they were attacked by A. p.
Hill, they lost 1000 killed, wounded and missing
Total, in round numbers. according to their own
statements, with regard 10 their own losses, Il,
600 clear balance in our favor
"Bpt the real loss was far greater. Gen. Lee
paroled 900 prisoners on the field of battle at
Manassas Three thousand prisoners who were
captured by us had not had their wounds dressed
OH the third day atterthe battle. Every man who
saw the field says there least FIVE dead or
wounded Yankees to one Confederate. Every
man who saw the field of SharpSburg saws there
were FIVE or six Yankees there TO one Confede-
rate. A correspondent of the New York Tribune
says Mcclellan lost %, 900 men there This, we
have doubt. is within the mark, for Mcclellan
has never yet acknowledged the half of his loss
on a single occasion. His loss on the l4th all
Confederate accounts put down at least 900.
Here, then, is a statement of what we believe TO