The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-12-26

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Iea ttiOBe. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2l2 81
er......-................. 1903 a.
SAHoH. ......................... .6l4 772
FAR oaks. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50 1882
McClellan's change of base
and Malvern Hills . I.65 TO
hntlelam ........................ 2llO GAIT
LUX a.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1876 537
SoT!Htn 315 1Sls
frafrie Grove. .................. 1877 7gs
MuIireeSDOr0 ..-................. l53S Af
Frederlckskurg ................. 1913 9. IOf
Grants operations around
v!chs our S.......-.................. ,213 7,0St
Gettysburg and attendant
actions. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1854 1890
CuickaIh3uSa. ..................... l644 @ 26I
M, l6,s4s "a, 4O7
This includes all the main actions. ex-
cept South Mountain, Cedar Mountain.
"a Bull Run and Chattanooga. No doubt
IL includes three-fourths of all the killed
and wounded. 1t is said that there have
been tioo thousand battles and skirmishes
out the average of small skirmishes and
actions does not reach teneach in the killed
or wounded, put In prisoners, Of course
much more. 1t, then, we assume the above
aggregate to be t,So- thirds the killed and
wounded, we shall have quite enough
This gives us as the. total for two years and
a half:
Killed Observation-Disclosures. 25. 90 s
w ouhaeo 5000. ..........."....."...llO,l Ill
CT the wounded received into hospitals
not one-fifth die, and of all the wounded
not more than One-fourth either die or are
seriously disabled. This is proved bv the
statistics of hospitals. The highest esti-
mate of losses by lighting, then, is: Killed
outright, %, 272; died or "disabled bv
wounds" q, 527. Thus we have 81. 799 men
killed and wounded.
The next question is, what is the loss by
"diseaseP" The only way we have to make
any accurate estimate of this is to take the
number of leases" reported by the sur
geons of the regular army for one wear.
which, compared with the number of men
in the army, will give ratio for sickness
in the army. 1t Will be too high, for in
time OF war the number of slight ''cases''
IS not near so great. Let us take this.
however, as basis, and then take the ra-
ito OF deaths to leases" in our hospitals
now, and we shall have basis for an ap-
to deaths by disease. The
nun Der of ceases" in the army during
one year in peace, as compared with the
number OF soldiers, is almost exactly tim
ordinary seasons) two to one. II we as
sumo the aggregate of our army, averaging
the " hole period at SOC, 900, it will be proba-
bly, more than the truth, for it will be re-
collected the war had been in progress
from April to September, 1861, before it
reached that number, and that although the
calls for men since would apparently raise
the aggregate much higher, yet those calls
were not filled till long after they were
made, and from the whole we must take
the three months men, the losses, the de
sertions and discharges. 100000 will be
quite enough for the strength of the army,
which gives for two years and half q
SOC, 900 leases" Of sickness, most enormous
number. In time of peace the deaths are
onelna hundred cases. In the military hos
pitfalls of Cincinnati the deaths of gunshot
wounds were one in eight, and the deaths
from disease one in eighteen; typhoid fever
boing one in five. We have already assum-
ed one-fourth Of the wounded double that
OF these hosptals,) as died or disable and
we may safely assume one in fifteen as
died of disease-the deaths in the hospitals
nearer the army being greater in proper
ton; but of Z, 900, COO patients, we have 1861
600 deaths by disease; terrible mortality.
showing what the whole history of war
shows, that the soldier has more to dreodjron,
disease than from battle. Hence so much of
the value of an old veteran soldier. He
knows how to take care Of himself.
Recapitulating now the losses Of the army
since April, 1861, as we have found them in
detail, they stand thus: rfig@-.s-.i y.
Killed, died or disabled. 50, 799
Aggregate Of men lost by war. 219, 399
This result is more likely to be too much
than too small number. Ifthere be any
deficiency, it is in those died of disease
The Surgeon Generals report of last year
does not indicate so large a number. But
that is not a correct criterion, since many
died away from hospitals. The gain and
loss Of able bodied men, then, stands thus
Increase of ol1n. hnIio1 in, two
years and a half (about) ..4S7 500
Loss in that time by war. 800
Aggregate gain. ,101
This is, of course only an approximation,
but the reader will see by the evidence
furnished, that there is no reasonable
ground for believing that the losses by
death or disabling in the war, have exceed
ed one half the increase of a6ie-bodied men.
e. ID. NJ, MORROW, Dec. l6, 1s63.-Cin.
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