Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-06-14
: The lirss Name Heavy Artillery.

The statistics that have been compiled by the
War Department from company muster out rolls
showing the actual losses Of regiments,
brissdes divisions and army corps
IN battle, by disease aud all other
causes. during the lale war. possess a mel
ancholy interest to the survivors and Is an elo-
quent tribute to the valor and determination OF
American. soldiery, while they also settle many
questions that have been warmly discussed at
different times by the veterans around their
peaceful camp fires. The total losses to the
Union army In battle approximates closely to
Ave per cent Of the entire number who served in
all capacities and double that number by dis.
ease, while some few regiments suffered loss Of
nearly twenty. five per cent killed aud MORALLY
wounded during their term of service. 1t Is ne
discredit to the men OF those commands whose
list Of dead In action is numerically small, rs
the circumstances Of war gave them no oppor-
tunities to win that special distinction and fame
that was acquired b. the necessary sacrifice of
80 much OF our best blood on desperately con-
tested fields. Nor Is 1t evidence because regi-
ment possesses OH Its final muster out rolls
multiplicity of names who died on the field Of
honor. That others would not haze acquitted
themselves in an equally worthy manner, had
the chance been Afforded but 1t does show eX
actly what these men did and dared and that
they sealed their devotion to their country's
cause by dying as heroes on the front line Of
the charge In the fierce carnage OF actual war
making for their n giment brillilnr record
upon the scroll Of history
The greatest maximum loss that befel any one
Of the two thousand regiments in Union army In
hof, 10 rroIt IN I'm First Matt
lery, who had i24 killed and died Of wounds.
and $50 wounded ont Of total of 22O2. The per-
centage Of killed being 10. ? 2 per cent
The Second Wisconsin lost 3fS killed and died
Of wounds, and Sis additional wounded out Of
An enrolment Of llsS, oeing 20 per cent. but that
loss was nearly four years in contamination.
while the First Maine incurred the entire loss
from May 10th, 1861, to April 9Th 1865, being a
period Of less than one year. Nothing Ike it Is
recorded IN ancient OF modern history
The Eighth New York Heavy Artillery lost
36l men killed or MORALLY wounded, and $40 nd
ditlonal wounded during same time, out of m
enrolment OF 2575-fonrteen per cent.
The Fifth New Hampshire met with the great
est maximum loss IN battle Of any Infantry
Regiment, 2o5 being killed and "75G
wounded, out Of total enrolment OF l7o6. the
percentage Of loss being slightly less than la
per cent.
Only forty.1 regiments had over 200 men
killed or died of wounds in battle, and but sixty.
eIght lost over ten per cent OF their total num-
Der In action. The Second Corps was the great
est sufferer OF any of the corps de armee. but was
also one Of the largest nearly 100 regiments be-
ing attached 10 it; and out Of 100 regiments
which lost the most men in action, As Of them
were in that corps the next highest number.
II. being in the 5th. OF the IS regiments who
lost over 200 killed " battle, four Of them were
III the Western Army and Al In the Potomac
Army.
The tabulated losses OF LIST Maine Heavy Ar
tllery were IS follows: