The Portland daily press., 1891-07-27

FORT wAYNE-MAIE ENTRANCE.
Q. Stones River (Murfreesboro), 1862. Loss
23J% per cent. The Union troops were not
all closely engaged. but their loss was %
per cent.
4. Marengo. 1900. Austrians and French.
Loss, % per cent.
& Chickamauga, 1868. Loss, q per cent The
Union troops were not all closely engaged,
but their loss was 20 per cent.
9. Antietam, 1862. Loss, Il per cent. Union
troops were not all closely engaged, but
their loss was 10 per cent.
Z. Leipsic, 1918. Allies and French. Loss, q
per cent Leipsic has been termed by the
Germans 'the battle of the nations" on
account of the vast armies assembled,
which numbered 465 900 men. 1t occurred
the year after Borodino, which, until re-
cent years, has been classed as the blood
lest battle of modern times. But an out
side estimate on the best figures attainable
places the loss at Borodino at about 81 per
cent.
O. Gettysburg, 1863 Loss, 20 per cent. Union
troops not all closely engaged and their
loss ID per cent. The -four Union corps most
heavily engaged, namely, the First, Second.
Third and Eleventh, lost az per cent. The
six corps most closely engaged-including
the Fifth and Twelfth with the above-lost
about q per cent.
0. Shiloh, 1862. Loss 20 per cent. Union loss,
17h per cent.
10. Lundy's Lane, 1914. Loss, 10 per cent.
II. Marshal Tour, 1870 Germans and French.
Loss, 16 per cent.
IL. Waterloo, 1914. Loss. IA per cent.
ID. Woerth, 1870. Germans and French. Loss,
II per cent.
IA. soiferino. 1850. French and Austrians.
Loss, IL per cent.
Is. Sadowa, 1896. Prussians and Austrians
Loss, IL per cent.
OF these battles Eylau, Bunker Hill,
Marengo, Leipsic, Lundys Lane and Wa
terloo were fought with smooth bore, flint
lock muskets; Stones River, Chickamanga,
Antietam, Gettysburg, Shiloh and Softer
tno, with rifed barrels and percussion
caps, and Woerth and Mars-la-T Tour, with
breech leaders. At Sadowa the Prussians
had breechloaders.
If the figures for the losses at Eylau,
Marengo and Leipsic could be given with
the exactness that applies to the battles of
the civil war, it is probable that the per-
centage of losses on those fields would be
found less than have estimated.
The figures handed down doubtless in
clude the prisoners or missing, thus swell
ing the loss. In the numbers given for the
civil war only the known killed and
wounded are included in the account To
be exact, then Stones River, Chickamauga.
Antietam, Gettysburg and Shiloh must be
considered the bloodiest battles of the
century. It should be noted also that the
Union boys invariably inflicted greater
punishment upon their foes than they
themselves received.
True Patriots on Parade.
The Grand Army claims to be patriotic
body of men, and if figures mean anything
when set in due order it would not be ex-
travagant to claim for it pre-eminence as
an exponent and promulgator as well of
national ideas. Its symbols and its cere-
monies hold up the nation, the country,
the Union as the object of reverence and
Iaudation. Aside from that it is national
order in the composition of its personnel
and in the extent of its ramifcations.
The volunteers went forth to the civil
war by states, but as soon as they reached
he field were massed into armies as United
States soldiers, regiments of different
states serving side by side in the various
,orps. The Grand Army knows no state
ines in the regulation of its membership.
soldiers of every state are eligible to every