Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
THE COST OF WAR.
The Losses in Or Late War Compared
with Those 4 Other Struggles

The Losses in Or Late War Compared
with Those Other Struggles
A Washington correspondent has been
comparing the satisfies of the loss by
death of Union soldiers during the re-
bellion with the mortality of other wars.
Reports show tat the northern and
southern armies net in more than 1000
skir,nishes and bttles. In 14S of these
conflicts the loSaln the Federal side was
more than 50OE and in at least 10
battles mana-t 20. 900 men were re-
ported = side. The appended
table le combined losses OF
the Fad.s3l Confederate forces, in
killed wound I'D missing, in the fol-
lowing ano-aoa,Sents We're: Shiloh, a.
400. Ant;a3a,,, IS, 900; Stone river, st.
600. ChancsfSville, $4,000; Gettys-
burg. "a 600 hlckamauga. SO, 900;
cCIellan's pe sular campaign, $780,
600 and Sbar.h ms campaign, 125, 600.
Waterloo v.Cne of the most desper-
ate and blo,dv ids chronicled in Euro
Moan history and'yet Wellington's casu-
aIties wore Loco }han ~ per cent, his
1ossos be;ny asAkilled and 95s wounded
out of over ,0a On men, while at Shiloh
one side lost in Jed and wounded 9,74O
out of "a, 900. W lie their opponents re-
port their killed. had wounded at 9,616,
f.as.s'.s ~ ties about 80 per cent.
AT the gIesi' of Wagram Napoleon
lost put apou, cent. At Wurzburg
IN, .ne ~ ns,, ne fieid and .i re'
;ra.te,d - ., si,ine. At Racour Mar
sbaI G. - bat 1-2 per cent. At
z,,-;ch Mossa.. ost but s per cent. At
+ ao-r;z Eraday c1 lost but 1-2 per cent.
A. Wa,n,ao,,a Marlborough lost but 10
-, 1 n.a1t Families the same in
tra,,;d oo,uonaf lost but per cent.
A. Contra- Uo,E of Navarro was re-
,-o,-.,, ~, o.. - ieces, yet his loss was
- r.. t..a N ~. ~. ent. At Lodi Napoleon
-, w.. ' ~ At Valmy Frederick
VIM, r. 10 per cent, and at the
-. - n arengo and Austerlitx,
s go s % tL,y were, Napoleon lost
=, $50 a. L., than IA 1-2 Ter cent.
III aSe VI III Solferipe, IN 1859, the
Az Magenta am a-nIes was less than
average loss on 5nonigrath, in 1865, it
per cent. A}At Woe<th, Specherap,
was Per cent. }avelotte and Sedan, In
Mars lie Tour, q loss was ~ per cent.
1870, the averagsen. Moreau lost but 4
while at Linden 'Archduke John lost but
per cent, and tn killed and wounded.
per cent. ini scarcely call this a
Americans wouAt Perryvilie, Murfrees-
lively skirmish. !, Atlanta, Gettysburg,
,oro, Chicamaugs Wilderness and Spott-
Mission Ridge. threquently reached, and
ylvania, the loss led. 40 per cent. OFF,
ometimes exceew that of the 8, 900, 900
nal statistics shoe were killed In battle,
men enlisted, the,ounds, 40, 2O5; died Of
4, 23S; died of y died of unknown
disease, 1o6,210tL, 3O3, S43. This in
auses, "a, 1874; ttwhose death while in
ludes only those 4 actually proved. To
he army had beesd be added. first, 90
his number shoHe known to have died
oo men who ass of the enemy as priso-
While IN the handaany others in the same
lers of war, and Iieaths are unrecorded;
manner whose d.entage of the EOS. 794
econd, fair pero down on the official
aen who are puts and missing in &C.
eports as deserte$ho participated In the
ion, for those w1men frequently disap-
var know that s certain had not de-
cared who, JhXa4ot be otherwise offic-
erted, Jet co third, thousands who
Any accounted n tie cemeteries all over
re buried IN pr1x "a while home ON fur
ne north, who 's dead are buried in
,ugn- Inc nauofional cemeteries, of
svenfy-three nal are in the northern
-hich only twelve{
.afes- of deaths from all
The proportlons of each state was as
auses IN the troolfn Z; New Hampshire,
blows: Maine, 1 in g.: Massachusetts,,
IN I; Vermont, nd. in IL; Connect
in 8; Rhode IslaI York. 1 in -: New
Ut, 1 IN 10; Nev8ennsylvania. 1 in IL;
erses' In IL; Maryland. in &c:
' : l IN pa, in s: Illinois,
mo, l IN " indlaE in 6; Wisconsin, In
., Michisah' L in 8: Iowa, l in
MihneSoGa- In S; California,
nearly 81; Kansa4 rr;nia in o. Ken.
IN 20 west souri, in 9.-Cincin-
lcky. 1 in 10; Misf .zatte
ati Commercial ca Co.
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