The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
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Total, about. $4,000
"The estimate for killed is based
upon the known tables of similar NOR
talNy for the Federal armies. The
latest revised statistics show that the
killed outright among the Federals
was 67.O5S." Official publications show
that the Federal armies lost 359, ,529 in
deaths during the entire war. or more
thah five times as many as were killed
outright on the battlefield; 1902 died
of wounds and 249,438 Of disease The
total number of volunteer enlist
ment" in the Federal army was ,S59, 1872;
making allowance for re-enlistments,
the men who entered the volunteer
service" was 0,272 There were also
= little over $4,000 in the regulars aid
reServe>co ar:a 3lso 1900 in the
naval service. Ehe grand total of all
the troops raised y the Federal Gov
ernment in its SIar on the Southern
States was 100000 men.
At the close of the war, there were
in the field I,000,516 Federal soldiers.
Of these 797,8O7 were reported as effec-
tive, able for duty. The Confederates
had less than 100000 effeetives-the
ratio being about ten Federal electives
to one Confederate effective at the time
of the surrender. Counting the total
strength of the Federals and the total
ConfederateS, the ratio runs about
seven Federals to one Confederate.
"When the war broke out it was com-
mon to hear Southern men say that
one Southern man could whip ten
Yankees. Others less eXtravagant
placed the ratio at FIVE to one. The
above statistics show that the average
between FIVE and ten came into the
field against the Confederate before he
was compelled to surrender"
The Federal regiments were not
filled entirely by Northern men. Sew
eral hundred thousand foreigners were
mustered into the Federal army, and,
little as it is known, more than half
million soldiers from the Southern
States enlisted and fought against the
South. OF this number over 100000
were negroes, 186,0l7 of whom were in
what was known as the "colored regl-
ments," and the others credited to
white Northern regiments, mainly
Massachusetts, commands. The total
Of the Southern contingent in the
Federal armies was $4,000 troops, or
almost as many as were in the Con-
federate armies. What would have
been the result of the war, if all these
men had fought on the Confederate
side, it is not difficult to imagine AS
it was, with half a million Southerners
and half million foreigners to help
them, it took the combined energies of
the vastly more populous and more
wealthy Northern States more than
four years to vanQuiSh the Confed-
crates, and the effort nearly failed in
the last year of the war.
The most destructive battles of the
war, in proportion to the numbers en-
gagged, were those that followed I'M
mediately after Grant assumed per-
sonal command of the forces operating
against Richmond. He began his
attacks upon Lee in May, 1864. with an
army of 150,OOO-about three to one of
Lees effective strengthen the Con-
federates did not number $1,000 effec-
tlyes then. In less than two months
Grants losses, as officially reported,
amounted to nearly 100000 men-or
about two FederalS captured or put
hors de combat for every Confederate
engaged. Grant lost in one battle
1881 men, while Lees loss was only
100. This was at Cold Harbor, which
battle, it is said, was fought by Grant
with the expectation Of showing that
he could win fight on the ground
where Mcclellan had been defeated.
His failure was in a measure a vlndl-
cation of Mcclellan, and it is noted
that the Federals were defeated IN
nearly every instance where they
fought for the second time on field
previously contested. It is noted also
that "the Federal troops won no victory
In the war where their forces were less
than the Confederates;' that altogether
the Confederates ''destroyed about
twelve different Federal grand armies"
and they were overcome at last only
because the Federal authorities, hay
ing the world to draw from, in addition
to native white population ia the
Northern States three times that Of the
whites of the South experienced but
little trouble in obtaining AL the re-
cruits they wanted, while the fighting
population of the South grew less and
less every day the war continued" and
only gave over the unequal contest
when they were outnumbered ten to
one.
1t is a record of which every South
erner may well be proud, and the story
of the glory of it should be taught in
every home until the end of time
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