Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27
Ca.uaItie. of the war.

Otlclal estimates ut the w ar department
compute the number Of deaths in the Union
armies since the commencement OF the war,
including the starving prisoners, at 325, OOO.
There has doubtless been fully 20O000
Southern soldiers removed by disease and
the casualties of battle, SO that not less than
525, 900 lives have been sacrificed in this
unholy contest, begun and prolonged by the
South in their vain effort to build up a new
republic and strengthen the slave power.
Our greatest losses during any one cam
paign occurred at Gettysburg, when 23,260
Union soldiers we're killed, wounded and
taken prisoners Hooker's caE'paign OF
1868 in the Wilderness ranks next TO Get
! tysburg as far as regards Union losses they
| having amounted to 10000, though gener.
ally reported at only 10000. Burnside lost
$4,000 in the battle Of Free er .cksburg,
Mcclellan l,426 at Antietam, Pc ter 5000
at Gaines Mills, Rosecrans II 08l at Muir.
freesboro, and 1854 at Chickamauga, and
Sherman about 1900 in the two days
battles around Atlanta. '
The official reports of Gen. Grants losses,
from the time he crossed the Rapidan until
receiving the surrender OF Lee, computes
them to 10000. In the various engage
ments fought by Gen. Grant in the West
, he lost 1858 men at Pittsburg Landing
, 9,875 in the severe contests around Yicks
burg, and in the attack on Missionary Ridgt
| about 1000.
Though our losses in many of the cam
paigns have been heavy, they yet fall ia
below those incurred in some OF the Flu
: ropean wars. This has been due, to a con
siderable extent, to the efficiency of tn
medical department, and the lavish amour
!. of supplies, at least one third greater tina
, those furnished to any European army.
report recently made to the Imperial Acad
emy of Medicine, by Chenu. Physician 9
: the French army, estimates the losses o
4 that army in the Crimean war as follows
~ Killed in the field of battle or missing, 10
u $40; lost in the Semilante, 702; died of va
/; ious diseases at Alma, S.0S4 died of cole
!, apoplexy, etc, before Sebastopo, 4, 342
u died in the field aud general hospitals, 72
ii 24T 95,6l5. Thus of 309,264 men sent b
q France to the Crmea, about one third ioun
q soldiers grave.
The ssige and reduction of Jerusalem r.
suited says Josephus,in the loss Of 5000
lives; 10000 Persians were placed hors a
g. combat at the battle of Arbela. and 100 On
IS Carthegenian in the engagement OF Pale
Ill mo. l2,0O0 infantry and 10000 caval
70 perished on the fatal fold of lssus. Spa
is lost 1000, 600 lives during the persecutit
n of the Arabians, and 500, 900 in.expeling u
g. Jews Frederick the great inflicted a 10
no 40, 900 on the Austrains in the conflicts
Of Leuthen and Leignitz. The battle Of Je
A and lesser engagements Immediately folio
to ing, cost tho Prussian army over 80, 600 me
in At the battle Of Leipsic tho French suff,
he ed casualties to the number Of 100, 900 al
We the Swedes and their allies 10000 MOI
ng $4,000 French and Russian soldiers
is dead and dying on the field after the bait
is of Moskowa, and Napoleon again lost A. o
n. men at Waterloo, and the Duke OF Wcllir
ton $4,000 more. N. Y. Com. Advertise