Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-07-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mortality in the Rebel Armies.

| OF course the Rebel leaders are not anx-
! ious that the dirciul results Of the mad Re
bclion into which few of them have hur-
| ried the people of eleven States should be
seen at one glance. The reports OF losses,
! therefore, we generally very unreliable. OF
the losses in many of the battles fought it
is said that no reports have ever been given.
They are delayed until the occurrence of
other battles causes the public to lose sight
of the intentional omission.
The Knoxville Reporter, however, states
! that "CLARx's Diary of. the War for Separa-
| tiun," has the following estimate of killed,
wounded and missing from the commence
ment of the war to the first of january, 1868
I-"Confederates.- .-"killed, 2O,SQ3; wounded
| 69,G15; prisoners, % l69 total ll2,6'7.-
| Died from disease and wounds, 10000"
This estimate is enc of their own making,
and even this shows a very heavy !oss. But
we have no confidence in its accuracy. 4
few months since we gave to our readers an
estimate founded on the tables contained in
| the Maternal iimdUdc This table includes
their losses from the commencement until
the 27th of December, 1862. According to
this authority, their reported losses, eXclu-
siye Of those in the seven days battle before
! Richmond, those in the battles at Corinth,
those in the last battle of Bull Run and in
many smaller contests, amounted to 26,l0O
killed, 1888 wounded, and ij,Jl2 prison
crs, total OF 1872, 900. We think that we are
making very low estimate when we put
! the actual losses at $4,000 killed, $4,000,
wounded, and $4,000 prisoners, total of
/ 1862 900 We believe that this comes short
Of the truth, though it presents an nggre-
! gate Of 30, 600 more than the Rebel accounts
admit. If we add the deaths from disease
and wounds To the number of the killed.
we shall have Il total of lGS, 900, or an aver
( aye mortality of 5000 per month for the past
! twunty-One months of the Rebellion. II that
has been continued up to the present time,
( rs probably it has, we must add to the sad
list As, 900 more, making total mortality
of 100000. This, too, it must be remcm-
( bercd, is only the number of actual deaths
( II is probable that n number nearly rs large
/ have been disabled by wounds or disease.
Ii this supposition be correct, then we have
! the total list of dead and disabled amount
/ ing to 432 900. All tins vast amount of
death and suffering is to be laid by their
own people to the charge of jefferson Davis
and his fellow Rebels and Consprators. Will
| they never call them to Il fearful reckoning!
! This sacrifice has been made as the result OF
! their Vaccinations and for what
! The result of this calculation we wish to
push little further We showed, some two
/ years since, that Il levy en- HtdSSe. in the Re
/ bel States, of all between the ages Of eight
/ teen and fifty, would only give II total of
| 10000 IT, then, 432 900 have been taken
already from this total. we have II remain
/ der of G,1.005. This represents the whole
/ Of the present available population between
/ the ages of eighteen and fifty, from which
! the army and navy can be recruited, even
supposng the average rate of mortality at
home to have been no greater than in for
( mcr years. The average rate, however, we
| presume, has been much greater. and by so
/ much is their available strength diminished.
/ 1t will readily be seen that their fighting
material is wasting rapidly away. Hence
! the unsparing conscription. And hence the
/ importance of now making with our forces
II determined movement along the whole
/ line or if we have not men enough in the
! field of this, the necessity of putting them
/ there at the earliest possible moment.