The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-01-30

~ DGllB tikcu us Tue minimum SJdDudIu OI
what is meant by heavy losses" As bat
teries would range from soto 100 men present
for duty, this seems to bea fair figure; though
many batteries, not included in this list, suf-
fered losses as high as 10 in single battles:
Sands 18th Ohio, Iuka, 55.
Houghtalng's G, 1st H., Stone River, 81.
Stewards Il, 4th u. s., Antietam, IA.
Burnham's II, 9Th us, Chickamauga, a..
Meningitis M, 9Th u. s., Cedar Creek, AZ.
Stewards b, 4th U. s., Gettysburg, 40.
Cushing's A, 4th U. s., Gettysburg, 80.
Rodier's K, 4th U. s., Gettysburg, So.
Stevens 5th Me, Cedar Creek, 50.
Battery T., 1st Ohio, Stone River, 33.
Battery A, LIST II. l., Gettysburg, 81.
Battery f., 1st Il. l., Gettysburg, 30.
Van Etten's LIST N. Y. Independent, Cedar
Creek, 30.
Stevens 9Th Me-, Charlottesville, %.
Battery A, LIST Ohio, Stone River, %.
Battery G, LIST Pa, Gettysburg %
Bigelow's 9th Mass, Gettysburg, %.
Battery Il, 1st K. l., Gettysburg, %.
Stevens 9th Me-, Gettysburg, 27.
Grffins ID, 9Th u. s., First Bull Run, 81.
Ricketts, ], 1st IT, S., First Bull Run, 81.
FStewart's i, 4th u s., Spottsylvania, 81.
*WinslOw's ID, LIST n. Y, SpOttsvlvania, 26.
4th Ind battery, Stone River, 26,
Brdges's list III. battery, ChicBamauga, 90.
Sd Wis battery, Chickamauga, 26.
Il, 1st N. Y. (Pettit's), Gettysburg, 20.
Adamss G, 1st r. l., Cedar Creek, 26.
i, 1st U. S., Gettysburg, %.
A, LIST Mich, Chickamauga, 25.
Turnbulls i, Sd u. s., Gettysburg, %.
9Th Ind. battery, Stone River, "a.
Ricketts, G, tst Pa, Gettysburg, %.
Harry Cushing's ii, 18th u. S., Stone River,
81.
Same battery, do, do, Chickamauga, 81
Smiths ], 4th u. S., Chckamauga %.
l1th Ind. battery, Chickamauga, %.
Peoples !, 9th u. s., Gettysburg, %
Phillips's 9Th Mass, Gettysburg, 81
Stevens's 9th Me, Second Bull Run, 81.
+, lat r. l., Bermuda Hundred, 81.
G, lst Mo, Stone River, 20.
Il, LIST Ohio, Stone River, 90.
A, LIST Il. l., Antietam, 30.
I'd Jersey battery, Gettysburg, 20.
Winslow's ID, LIST N. Y, Gettysburg, 20.
4th Ind. battery, Chickamauga, 20.
18th Ind. battery, Chickamauga, 20.
Battary A, lst Ohio, Chickamauga, 20.
Winslow's ID, LIST N. Y Antietam, 20.
The above includes only those batteries
which hung onto their guns, despite their
heavy losses. Several batteries were capt
ured, guns and all, as Murray's +, ID u. s.,
captured at Atlanta July % and Woodruff 8
Horse Battery, NJ, I'd U. s., captured at
Treyilian Station. Including prisoners,
Murray's loss is reported to be 63, and
Woodrufl's "a, but all these were captured
without wounds. Our list is intended to
exhibit only battle casualties by gun-shot
in square, stand-up fighting. There are no
reliable reports of the battery casualties in
Sherman's Atlanta campaign, but it is
known that they were not heavy probably
none over 20 to n battery in any one action.
When sandss battery, 18th Ohio. lost So
at Iuka it had l02 for duty, showing n per-
centage of nearly "a Stewards loss of IA
at Autietam was out of total present of 81
men and two officers, percentage of III,
while his loss of 40 at Gettysburg was out
of total present OF 80, or AZ per cent.
So 1t seems that the aristocratic arm of
the service had 10 take their medicine with
the rest, and sometimes in pretty heroic
doses.