Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-09-15
DELAWARE, ONO, SEPTEMBER IS, 1865.
CASUALTIES nE TIE MAR.

Official estimates at the War Depart
ment compute the number of deaths il
the Union armies since the commence
ment of the war, including the starving
prisoners, at 325, 600 There has doubt
less been fully 100000 Southern soldiers
removed by disease and the casualties o.
battle, SO that not less than 525, 900 lives
have been sacrificed in this unholy con.
test, begun and prolonged by the South
In their vain effort to build up a new re-
public and stregthen the slave power.
| Our greatest losses during any one cam
paign occurred at Gettysburg, when %,
260 Union soldiers were killed, wounded
and taken prisoners. Hooker's campaign
of 1868 in the Wilderness ranks next to
| Gettysburg as far as regards Union losses,
! they having amounted to 10000, though
generally reported at only 10000. Burn
side lost $4,000 in the battle of Fred
ericksburg, Mcclellan II ,426 at Antie-
tam, Porter 5000 at Gaines Mills, Rose
cranse II, ,084 at Murfreesboro, and 1854
at Chickamaugua, and Sherman about 6, >
600 in two days battle around Atlanta
The official reports of General Grant s
losses, from the time he crossed the Rap
idan until receiving the surrender of Lee,
computes them at 80, 900 In the various
engagements fought by Gen. Grant in the
West he lost 1853 men at Pittsburg
Landing, 1856 in the severe contests
aroudd Vicksburg, and in the attack on
Missionary Ridge about 1000
Though our losses in many of the cam
paiigns have been heavy, they yet fall far
below those incurred in some of the Eu-
ropean wars. This has been due, to a
considerable extent, to the efficiency of
the medical department, and the lavish
amount of supplies-at least one-third
greater than those furnished by any Eu-
ropean Army A report recently made to
the Imperial Academy of Medicine by
Chenu, Physician of the French Army,
estimates the. losses of that Army in the
Crimean war as follows: Killed on the
field of battle or missing, 10, $40; lost in
the Semilante, 702; died of various dis
eases at Alma, ,084, died of cold, apo
plexy, etc, before Sebastopol, 4,342, died
in the field and general hospitals, rs, ,248;
total 50, ,615. Thus of 309.264 men sent
by France to the Crimea about one third
found soldiers graves. -.ls
The siege and reduction of Jerusalem
resulted, says j Josephus, In the loss of :
600, 900 lives; 10000 Persians were placed
hors du combat at the battle of Arbela,
and 100000 Carthagenians in the engage
ment of Palermo. 1900 infantry and
10000 cavalry perished on the fatal field
of Issus. Spain lost 2, 900, 900 lives dur
ing the persecution Of the Arabians, and
100000 in expelling the ] JeWs. Frederick
the Great inflicted loss of 10, 900 on the
Austrians in theconfiict of Leuthen and
Eeignitz. The battle of Jena and the
lesser engagements Immediately follow
ing, cost the Prussian army over 10000
men. At the battle of Leipsic, the French
suffered casualties to the number of 160,-
600 and the Swedes and their allies 40,-
600 more. $4,000 French and Russian
soldiers lay dead and dying on the field
after the battle Of Moskowa, and Napol-
con again lost 1900 men at Waterloo,
and the Duke of Wellington Is, 900 more.
M 2 Commercial AdUertiser.