The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-10-23
Continental Wars in Europe
and America.

Look at the twenty two years of Eu.
rope and at the less than three years of
America, and what is the comparison of
power that the two continents have
shown? Russia had in the field at one
time in those great wars, for great
battle on her own territory, one hundred
and thirty. two thousand men, New York
State alone has sent over two hundred
thousand men to the field up to the pres.
ent time. All the allied States, in the
largest army they ever brought togeth-
er, could muster but two hundred and
eighty thousand men, New York and
Illinois would more than equal this, while
New York and Pennsylvania would out.
number it by over q hundred thousand
men. Ordinary battles in Europe I Vse
fought by thirty and forty thousand men
and 1t was esteemed tremendous array
of power when armies of one hundred
thousand or one hundred and fifty thou.
sand confronted one another; but we on
one side alone have over half q million
men under arms, and, in addition to nu.
merous smaller forces, keep in the field
three armies whose numbers range from
one hundred thousand to one hundred
and fifty thousand men. On the PENN.
sula the Army of the Potomac number.
ed one hundred and fifty thousand; and
at the battle Of Gettysburg, when it was
smaller than it had ever before been, it
had for duty seventy thousand men on
the second day.
When Napoleon, in the series Of bat
ties at Leipsic, lost sixty thousand men
in killed, wounded and prisoners, Eu-
rope had put him down. Though that
sixty thousand was from an army of one
hundred and sixty thousand, he was
overthrown by the loss. But in the past
summer the successes Of our Northern ar
mics deprived the rebels of over ninety
thousand men, and they are not yet ruin
ed.
Napoleon claimed six victories in his
first campaign in Italy, and claimed to
have killed and wounded ten thousand
of the enemy. Six victories on either
side would be very cheaply purchased
in our war at that price. Bull Run
quite equals that average in carnage,
and that, it has been said, was not
battle at all.
At Eckmubia, out of seventy five
thousand Napoleon lost four thousand
in killed and wounded. With about
the same number or less engaged at Ge,.
tySburg and Chattanooga, our loss was
at least four times that Such is the
difference in spirit and tenacity between
two men or two sides of the ocean. At
Waterloo, Blucher and Wellington had
together two hundred and fifty thousand
and Napoleon one hundred and twenty
thousand men. The French lost, in
killed, wounded and prisoners, thirty
thousand land the Allies, in killed and
wounded, only seventeen thousand
Such was the great day of Waterloo,
that changed the fate of Europe. At
the battle ofAntietam the rebel loss in
killed, wounded and prisoners was about
the same as that of Napoleon at Water
loo, and our loss in killed and wounded
was probably about two thousand less
than that Of the Allies. But the total
number of men at Antietam on both
sides was at the very least one hundred
and fifty thousand less than Napoleon,
Wellington and Blueher altogether had
on "lhe bloodiest day that Europe ever
saw"
From such numbers it may be seen
that our continental war, in magitude
and in the desperate character of its bat
ties, dwarfs that of Europe entirely
NJ Y Herald.