Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-11

COL L O NORRIS lows The weather
was intensely hot, and salt rations were Ill
suited to sustain tho systems of soldiers under
such trials.
The losses In the Union army from June
to IL were 1874 killed Including wounded
died on tho field, 0,oU wounded and 1915
missing-total. l2,797.
The Confederate loss during tho same pc
riod was about 800 killed and wounded
The Confederates took the battle very coolly
ALI Of tho diaries and reports from that army
that have como TO light speak uniformly OF
''assaults rcpulsed" from one end Of tho limo
to tho other. Gen. Z. II. Law, Of Kershaw's
division, in the center Of Lee's liue says that
on the morning Of the Sd his troops were un-
der arms awaiting attach. In his article In
Tho Century Magazine, June, 1887, he TO
lntes that during the notion the men were
Sin fine spirits, laughing and talking as they
fired" OF tho havoc made in tho Union
ranks he writes:
~ had soon tho dreadful carnage In front
Of Marye's HUI at Fredericksburg, and on
tho odd railroad cut which Jacksons men
held at tho Second Manassas Dull Run, leG2)
but had seen nothing to exceed this. 1t
vns not war; 1t was murder. When the fight
ended, moro than q thousand men lay in
front Of our works IKershaws divisionL
either killed or too badly wounded to leave
tho field"
Gen. Grant writes In his personal memoirs
Us follows; 81 have always regretted that
the last assault at Cold Harbor was over
made"
In his official report made to tho secretary
Of war, he stated: "In this attempt our los
was heavy. while that Of tho enemy, have
reason 70 believe, was comparatively light
1t was the only general attack made from
tho Rapidan 10 the James which did not In
aict upon the euemy bosses 10 compensate for
our own losseAn
Tho total losses sustained by Gn,ntS COM
hined armies In this campaign, usually called
tho Wilderness campaign. extending from
the Rapidan to the Chickahominy, arc given
In Con Grants memoirs" as follows:
wiidcrness-K Killed. asSoi; wounded, s,Ts5;
missing, 2,o02; total, ia,ois. Spottsylvania-
Killed, 2,27i; wounded, $3.50; missing, l,07o;
total, l3,C0i. North Annn-killed, 1856;
wounded, 793; missing, 1856; total, l,i43
Totopotomoy-Killed, 90; wounded, SsS;
missing, 81; total, 509 Cold Harbor-Killed
1,7G9; wouisded. 0.753; missing. 1887: total.
1O,05s. Grand total, 3o,259
This table does not include tho losses OF the
Ninth corps at tho Wilderness and Spottsyl-
vania and tho Eighteenth corps at Cold Har-
Dor when these commands were acting inde-
pcndently OF tho Army Of the Potomac. In
Guiding these losses, the grand total Of killed,
wounded and missing in all tho operations
conducted by Grant and Meade against Rich
mond, between the Wilderness and front OF
Richmond, Is something over 5000, OF which
tho kilicd and wounded were about 1000
Tho number has commonly been estimated
much higher. Gen. Grant gives tho estilnate
of his strength at the beginning OF the cam
paign as 10000, and after Cold Harbor ut
li50OO, tho losses having been made good by
re-enforcementR Hc also estimates Leo's
army at tho outset as 10000.
On the 9Th Of June, Gen Grant deter
mined 70 repeat the moYoment OF Mcclellan