News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-24
THE DEAD OF A WAR.
Interesting Figures of the Losses of the
Late War.

900 soldiers enlisted during the late
war, in response to the successive calls
of President Lincoln, and that OF this
humber 1856, 097 were coloreo troops.
Of this number
New York furnished AT, O47 men,
Pennsylvania furnished 5oo, III IAe"'
Ohio furnished 49, $50 men,
Illinois furnished 259, 147 men,
Indiana furnished 1877, l47 men;
Massachusetts, furnished !oz,o "en'
Missouri furnished log, Ill NEIL
These figures do not include men who
enlisted for shorter period than ninety
days and, estimating on the basis of
New York's enlistment of 1928, 1t IS
fas to calculate that the aggregate OF
troops furnished by the States OF the
Union armies was at least 5000, 900.
| Additional reports show that the
Northern and Southern armies met IN
over 1000 skirmishes and battles. In
148 of these conflicts the loss on the
| Federal side was over 500 men, and IN at
least ten battles over 10000 men were
reported lost on each side. The appen-
| ded table shows that the combined
losses of the Federal and Confederate
forces in killed, wounded and missing
in the following engagements we're
Shiloh, "a, 900; Antietam, 80, 600; Stone
River, 81, 900; Charlottesville, %, 600 !;
Gettysburg, "a, 900; Chickamauga. 81, =
900; McClellan's Peninsula campaign,
$4,000; Grants Peninsula campaign,
$50, 900; and Sherman's campaign, 1885,
900.
Official statistics show that of the
| g. 900. 900 men enlisted there were:
Killed in battle. Observation-Disclosures. 4i,235
Died OF disease Observation-Disclosures. 1S6, 2lo
Died of unknown causes. ............ "a, 1874
This includes only those whose death
while in the army has been actually pro-
ven. To this number should be added,
first, 26, 900 men who are known to have
died while in the hands of the enemy as
prisoners of war, and many others in the
same manner whose death are today
unrecorded; second, fair per centage
of the 2O5. 794 men who are put down
on the official reports as deserters and
missing in action, for those who partici-
pated in the war know that men fire.
quently disappear who it was certain
had not deserted yet could not be other
wise officially accounted tor; third,
thousands who are buried in private
cemeteries all over the North who died
while at home on Through.
By an act of Congress, approved July
II, 1862, the President was empowered
to purchase cemetery grounds, and to
cause them to be securely inclOsed. for
the purposes of national cemeteries for
the soldiers who should die in the ser
vices of the country. Subsequent acts
provided that the Secretary of War
should take steps to preserve from des-
ecration the graves of the soldiers who
fell in battle or died of disease during
the rebellion, and to lnclose the ground
so that the resting places of the honored
dead should be kept sacred forever. No
nation of either ancient or modern
times after great war, made such sys.
tematic and successful efforts to gather
the remains of their dead and secure for
them honored burials.
The recent report shows that the ma
tons dead are buried in 70 national
cemeteries, of which only 10 are in the
Northern States. Among the principal
ones IN the North are Cypress Hill, with
its 3,7S6 dead; Firms Point, n. J,
which contains the remains of 2, 644 I'M
known dead; Gettysburg, Pa, with its
967 known and / SOS unknown dead;
Mound City, H., with 2, sos known and
2,721 unknown graves; Philadelphia,
with /, 900 dead, and Woodlawn, Elmi-
ra. N. Y, with its 3, 900 dead. In the
South, near the scenes of terrible con-
flcts, are located the largest repositories
of the nations heroic dead:
Arlington, Va, 1924, of which 4.349 are
Beaufort, S. c., 9,2ll, of which ABB are
Chalmette, La, 1851, OF which 1914 are
unknown.
Chattanooga, Tenn, 1862, of which 4, 963
are unknown.
Fredericksburg, Va, 1921, of which IL, ITO
are unknown.
Jefferson Barracks, No., II, 400, OF which
2 906 are unknown.
Little Rock, AK. 1902, of which 2,937 are
unknown.
City FONT, v, 5,122, of which 1874 are I'M
known.
Marietta, Ga, 1O,151, of which 2,96s are
Memphis Tenn. Is, 997, Of which s,817 are
M * L own.
Nashville, Tenn, 16, 526, of which 4,7O1 are
unknown.
Poplar Grove, Va, 6,199 of which 4,OO1 are
Il lEnOwn.
Richmond, Va. 6,542, of which $500 are
unknown.
Salisbury, N. c., II, 1876, OF which IL, O32 are
unknown.
Stone River, Tenn, 1902, of which 288 are
unknown.
Vicksburg, Miss. 16. 600, of which 70, 7O4 are
unknown.
Antietam, Va, 4,671 of which 1878 are I'm
known
Winchester, Va, 4,559 of which 1865 are
unknown.
In all, the remains of 800, 900 men
who fought for the stars and stripes
find guarded graves in our national
Two cemeteries are mainly
devoted to the brave men who persisted |
in the loathsome prisons of the same ,
name-Andersonville, Ga, which con-
taIns 10, ia graves, and Salisbury, with
it's -. 1876 dead, of whom IL, 032 are I'M |
known.
OF the vast number who are inferred
in our national cemeteries 275. 900
sleep beneath the soil OF the Southern
States and 145, 600 rest in graves marked
unknown