Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-05-31
CIVIL WAR STATISTICS.

Tho Number of Slain Buried Near tho
Scenes of Terrible Conflicts.
Official returns show that about O.
653,000 soldiers enlisted during the war
in response TO the successive calls OF
President Lincoln, and that of this
number 1SS,097 were colored troops.
Reports show that tho Northern and
Southern armies met in over 1000
skirmishes and battles, In 1iS OF these
conflicts tho loss on the Federal side
was over 500 men, and in at least 10
battles over TO- 600 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 We're: Shiloh, a.
0t0; Antletam, $4,000; Stone River,
$4,000; Chicamauga, $4,000; McClel-
lan's Peninsula campaign, 80, 900;
Grants Peninsular campaign, 140, 900;
and Shermans campaign, $4,000.
Official statistics show that OF the g.
$4,000 men enlisted, there were
killed in battle, A, 2SS; died of wounds,
unknown causes, 2l,1S4; total, 1903, ,Sl3.
This includes only those whose death
while in the army had been actually
proved. To this number should be
added. first &c, 900 men who are known
TO have died while in the hands OF the
enemy us prisoners of war, and many
Others in the same manner whose
deaths are unrecorded second, fair
per cent. of the 205, 794 men who are put
down on the official reports as deserters
and missing in action, for those who
participated in tho 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
12 are in the Northern States. Amongst
the principal ones in the North are Cy-
press Hill. with its 1886 dead; Finn
Point, N. j., which contains the re-
mains of 2,6+ unknown dend Gettys-
burg, Pa, with its 1867 known and
1,60S unknown dead; Mound City, Ill,
with 2,505 known and 2,721 unknown
graves; Philadelphia, with 1000 dead,
and Woodlawn, Elmira, N. Y, with its
5000 dead.
In the South, near the scenes OF ter
rlble conflicts, are located the largest
repositories of the slain: Arlington,
Va, 16. 264, o. which 1919 are un-
known; Beaufort, S. c., 9,2i1, OF which
4.493 are unknown; Chalmettee, La,
1851, of which 1914 are unknown;
Chattanooga, Tenn, 1862. OF which
1868 are unknown; Fredericksburg,
Va, Is. 257, of which 1870 are I'M
known; Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, H.
260, of which 1900 are unknown; Little
Rock, Ark, 5,602, of which 2,337 are
unknown; CITY Point, Va, 5,122, of
which 1874 are unknown; Marietta,
Ga, 10, l5l, of which 1868 are un-
known; Memphis, Tenn, 1897, OF
which S.8l7 are unknown; Nashville,
Tenn, 1926, of which 400 are
6,190, of which 4,OO1 are unknown;
Richmond, Va, 6,542, of which 800
are unknown; Salisbury, N. c., u, l26
of which 1902 are unknown; Stone
River, Tenn, 1902, of which 2SS are
unknown; Vicksburg, Miss, $1,000, of
which 1904 are unknown; Antietam,
Va, 1871, of which lis are unknown;
Winchester, Va. 1869, of which 1866
are unknown. In all, the remains of 300,-
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
-Andersonville, Ga, which contains
1874 graves. and Salisbury, with its
12,126 dead. among which l2,092 are
unknown. Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zatta