Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-06
CIVIL WAR STATISTICS.
The Number OF Slain Buried Near the
Scenes of Terrible Conflicts.

The Number OF Slain Buried Near the
Scenes of Terrible Conflicts.
Official returns show that about g.
653,O 900 soldiers enlisted during the war
in response to the successive calls of
President Lincoln, and that of this
number 1861 were colored troops.
Reports show that the Northern and
Southern armies met in over 1900
skirmishes and battles. In AS OF these
conflicts the loss on the Federal side
was over 500 men, and in at least 10
battles over 10 900 men were reported
lost on each side The appended table
shows that the combined losses of the
Federal and Confederate forces in
| killed, wounded and missing in the fol-
lowing engagements were: Shiloh. pa
600; Antietam. $1,000; Stone River,
22,000; Chicamauga. $4,000; McClel-
lan's Peninsula campaign, 80. 600;
Grants Peninsular campaign, 14O. 600;
and Sherman's campaign. $4,000.
Official statistics show that of the p
$4,000 men enlisted. there were
killed in battle, A, 23S; died of wounds.
40. POS; died of diseases. 1S6. PIC; died of
unknown causes. "a. 1874; total, 3C3, 843.
This includes only those whose death
while in the army had been actually
proved. To this number should be
added. first, $4,000 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
deaths are unrecorded; second, fair
per cent of the POS, 794 men who are put
down on the official reports as deserters
and missing in action, for those who
participated in the war know that
men frequently disappear who.
it was certain, had not deserted, yet
could not be otherwise officially
accounted for; third, thousands who
are buried in private cemeteries all
over the North who died while at home
on furlough. The dead are buried in
73 National cemeteries. of which only
u are in the Northern States. Amongst
the principal ones in the North are Cy-
press Hill. with its 1886 dead; Firms
Point. n. j., which contains the re-
mains of 2,644 unknown dead; Gettys-
burg. Pa, with its 1867 known and
1,60S unknown dead; Mound City, Ill.
with 2,505 known and 2,72l unknown
graves; Philadelphia, with 1900 dead.
and Woodlawn, Elmira, n Y, with its
$500 dead
In the South, near the scenes of ter
rible conflicts, are located the largest
repositories of the slain: Arlington,
Va, 16. 264. of which 1919 are I'M
known; Beaufort, S c., 9,241. of which
4, 493 are unknown; Chalmettee, La,
12,511, of which 1914 are unknown;
Chattanooga, Tenn. 1862, of which
4, 963 are unknown; Fredericksburg,
Va. Is. 257. of which 1910 are I'M
known; Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, H.
260. of which 1900 are unknown; Little
Rock. Ark, 1902 of which 1887 are
unknown; City Point, Va. 1922, of
which 1874 are unknown; Marietta,
Ga, 10, of which 1858 are I'M
known; Memphis Tenn, 1897, OF
WHICH COLI are uHhuOWH, NdSuNule,
Tenn, 1886. of which 400 are
unknown; Poplar Grove, Va,
6, 100. of which 4,OO1 are unknown;
Richmond, Va, 6.542, of which 800
are unknown; Salisbury, N. c., 1925,
of which 1902 are unknown; Stone
River, Tenn, 1902. of which 2SS are
Vicksburg, Miss. 10. 600, of
which 1910 are unknown; Antietam,
Va, 4,671, of which ], 118 are unknown;
Winchester. Va. 4,559, of which 1866
are unknown. In all, the remains of $780,
600 men who fought for the stars and
stripes find guarded graves in our ma
tional cemeteries. Two cemeteries are
mainly devoted to the men who per-
ished in the prisons of the same name
Ga, which contains
1874 graves. and Salisbury. with its
u, 126 dead. among which 1902 are
unknown Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.