The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-23
Che lovtolh g'o5t,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ., lS6b.

A Washington correspondent OF the
Chicago Tribune, has compiled from
various sources of information n tobuler
statement of the losses by battle in the
year 1861, in the armies OF General Grant
and General Sherman. We have not
space forthe tables and, besides, as they
are not official, and only purport to be
approximate, they would not serve rs
matters of record. We Gouht not that
the War Department will issue in due
time under official sanction, a full and
correct report of the losses in killed,
wounded and prisoners, i'll evey battle
and skirniish during the war. II would
be a most Understanding and invaluable
nitively all the wild and exaggerated
stories Of terrible slaughter and arrange,
that We're INDUCED in during the strug-
gle,and show Is the exact cost Of life II
matter quite as interesting to..many as the
cost in treasllre-of the great rebellion.
4 statement of the losses on the confed-
crate side, can also he compiled from
the official documents i'll the pos
session OF the government, aud from
the reports Of Lee, and other COM
manderS. There is another in
teresting matter, which ii is no longer
necessary 10 keep secret. During the
Wal ii was very proper that the oppos-
ing generals should conceal the actual
number of troops engaged in the battles
they fought bat now the curiosity of
the public might be gfatilied, aud we
know of nothing that would challenge
such universal attention, or be so greed
lily sought after, as Il full and fair state.
ment of the actual forces engaged OF
both sides in every battle FOUGHT. Thes
statements, however, should be corree
and we'll atiestcd, in order to he receive
rs authentic historical papers, for the
would only ne valuable Ia fIle extent q
their tratIifalneas. The writer, win
furnishes the present statement, sllmst II
The losses of Grant from the Battle ofth,
WILDERNESS, on the 18th Of May, to the
! Battle of Eoydtown Plank Road ON Oh,
18th October; and Of sherman from til,
advance on Dalton To the capture of At
lanta, as follows:
From the tabular statements it ap
pears that i'll the Army Of the Potomac
in six months, sever hundred an'
ninety officers, and nine Thousand seve
hundred and seVcuty-siX enlisted men
or IL total OF ten Thousand five hundre
AMI seVelty-tWo We're killed outright
and two thousand seven hundred an
siinety-siX officers and fit o taotl
sand aud one hundred and siSty-one 81
listed men, or Il total OF very ncafl.
littY-fatif thousand wounded BY fire O
the enemy. | think the total Of sixty
four th0tl3and Killed and wounded Wt
about ohd-third Of the aggregate fore
under General Grants command (coln
pating The original strength of the arm.
when it left Gulptper, and the reinforce
meEts sent to IL in the stated time. Nh
loss i'll tlle WilderneSs battles was great
est neXt that OF Cold Harbor. The un
paralieled blo0Iiness. Of the struggle Il
@pottsyivania is illustrated by the un
usually l1fge number Of killed.
Against a total of missing of twenty
three thousand, the Army of the Poto
mae has II set-oT Of fifteen Thousand
three hundred and seventy prisoners
captured from the enemy. Or gtths tht
same army lost twenty-five and cap
tared thirty-two. The grand Army O
The Mississippi captured and received
an aggregate Of l2,9SS prisoners and de
s%ertels during the active operation.
ending with the fall OF Atlanta, Oh
whom about twenty-five per cent. came
voluntarily into our lines. OF guns,
twenty-siX were taken and sixteen lost
by General Shernan's army. From
May l, TO the middle of September. no
less than 52,2l7 of General Sherman's
soldiers, besides the wounded, We're
medically treated, Of which aggregate
the remarkably small number OF only
i2o died from various Diseases. OF ar
tiilery ammunition, the Armies Of the
Cumberland, Tennessee, and Ohio, eX-
pended together 1860 rounds: of small
arms ammunition, -, la7, l32 rounds.