The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-10
The German Losses,

The lossessof the German army In killed and
wounded, thus far in the campaign, are es:i-
mated at $50, 900 men, but King William has
still over 500 900 soldiers at his disposal. Herr
Wickede, writing from Nancy to the Cologne
Gazette, refers to the daily arrival OF numer-
GUS soldiers of the supplementary battalion,
| who are to be drafted off into vlrious reSi-
| ments, and ssys:
This numerous reinforcement. which in the
case of many regiments, already amounts to
600 or 800 men, is very welcome to many OF the
divisions, as compromising the frightful losses
OF the month of August, and IN some measure
filing up ranks which are but TOO thin. Ihese
losses were very unelually distributed, Accord
ing as accident caused the trooos to take
more or less share in sangnlnary battles.
That of the regiments, tor example, OF the
Fourth (Saxon) army corps, with the excep-
ton of the Twenty-seyensh, Slx:y.serepth and
Thirty-frst, have scarcely been under tre. and
the entire Sixth tSilesianl corps has suffered
only nominal losses through the enemys bull
let's. The Fifth division, with the splendid
Brandenburg infantry regiments, and the Sec
ond and Twelfth Dragons, which alone for
five hours sustained the attack OF three hostile
army corps, were those who suffered most Sc.
verely on the 10th, at Mars. .a-Tour. There are
here battalions which have scarcely 5O0 men
under arms, and at most SIX or eight ohcers,
the others being all dead or wounded. On the
18th at Grayelotte the Infantry Guard suffered
frightfully, q quarter Of the men and half the
officers being lacking. The Artillery Guard
has hardly half its complement, and only four
or six officers still on duty, aud the two regi-
ments OF the Dragon Guards were go shat
tered that they bad to be worked into
q single regiment, whereas the remaining
Cavalry Guards have h5rdly been under hre.
%,a ~ ouir r6Cpirnpnt 0fltfor-
ed fearfully, so that in the evening 1t was
hardly 200 men srrong. Of the 1st army corps
some regiments have had teavy losses; the
second has suffered loss; the 10Th regiment OF
vhe 7th army CORPS very Severely, come com.
panies now numbering haroly lU0 men. VI
the 8:h army corps the 10th Suslller regiment,
in spite Of every reinforcement, hardly mus
ters COO men. as to the losses at Beaumont
and Sedan aud elsewhere. know nothing GER
tain. The Sa1ons had considerable losses,
likewise some Bavarian infantry regiments,
the Wurtembereers relatively less. and the
Baden troops which are before Strasbourg
least of all. 1t will be toleraby near the truth
if one estimates that all the troops up 70 me me
present time have been weakened by 6u.UO0
killed and wounded. and 20 600 or $4,000 sick.
Prisoners may number 300 or 1000.
The French Losses.
The killed, wounded and prisoners OF the
French army, in the campaign from Saar-
brucken to Sedan, it is calculated, amount 10
| $50, ,S24 officers and men.
The killed and wounded amount to $4,000,
| distributed as follows: In the battles and re-
treat from Wissenburg to the Moselle. 3O,O00
men; in the battles around Metz, $4,000; and
in the battles around and at Sedan, 10000.
The prisoners alone number 25!4 officers and
lS2,250 men, making q total OF 1854, OF
whom 81, 900 were taken in the battles around
Sedan and 1925 officers and Sl,450 men, or
S6,7T5, at the capitulatiOn. The prisoners
taken at Laon, Toul and StraSbourg, it is
calculated, will swell the losses to 900: To
these must be added the 10000 men OF Ba-
zaine's army, cooped up in Metz, and the
fugitive detachments, amounting TO 5000 or
6000 men, which, escaping from Sedan into
Belgium, were dlsarmed and made prisoners.
1t is therefore believed that of the standing
army of $50, 900 men which Napoleon had at
his disposal when the campaign commenced,
less than $4,000 ablc-bodied soldiers are now
in the service of France. The losses in mate
rials of war are also immense. The official
report gives the capture OF l0,2S0 horses, l02
mitraieurs, SS7 field guns and heavy artillery,
over 400 wagons, several pontoon trains, mill
tary magazines, railway trains, large quanti-
ties OF small arms, ammunition, clothing,
equipments, forage and provisions. The
French losses in the retreat OF Mcmahon from
Woerth embrace two magazines, 1000 wool.
len blankets, 10000 bags of rice, coffee ana
sugar; large quantities Of wine, rum and to-
bacco, the latter article being valued at 1our
hundred thousand dollars.