The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-12-28
WINSTON-SALEM. N. G.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1898.
was less than at Gettysburg, Chicka-

| was less Unan at GeUUySDurS, CulChd
| mauga. or Waterloo.
In the the civil war the UnlOl
armies lost 385, ,245 in killed, mOrtall
wOunGed, and severely wounded. In
| total enrolment of the Union Armies
| officers and men, not including thre'
and six months men, was Z,ob4, 80
, llO,O70 of these were killed. and th'
deaths from disease, wounds, ant
| other causes were 339, 3Io more. Ih'
| Confederate Army and Nayy's tOta
enrichment, including all classes ant
the trans ;riptiOns, was about 6OO, ,OOl
men, out of ii population of 5000, O0t
whites.
Twenty-eight per cent. of the Un-
ion soldiers at Andersonville died; =.
per cent. of the Coufederates confined
at Eimira, n. Y. died: 2,9S8 of the
latter were buried in d Held which I
year or TWO dfterW1rd was ploWeO
over and planted in wheat. Forty
eight per cent. Of the Union soldiers
were farmers, "a per cent mechanics
Is per cent. laborcrS, . per cent were
in commercial pursuits, and per
cent. were professional men.
The Pennsylvania Reserves was the
only division in the Union armies
composed entirely or troops from one
State. Hancock's old division Of the
Second Corps lost more killed and
wounded than any division in the Un-
ion armies. Its total loss was Is, S44.
The compilcrs of these very
remarkable figures give the essential
statistics Of 300 fighting regiments IA
list which includes every regiment in
the Union armies which lost over 120
in killed or died of wounds during the
entire war, and a few regiments whose
percentage killed entities them to
this particular analysis. or the 300
fighting regiments Pennsylvania fur
niShed 53.
The Union regiment which suffered
the greatest loss for its enrolment
was the Twenty-Fourth Michigan,
whose total losses in two days were
1853
The percentage Of killed of Pennsyl-
yania soldiers was greater than in the
quota Of any other State. The total
losses of Pennsylvania calvary in ac-
tion exceeded the calvary losses OF any
other State. Pennsylvania troops
were the first to arrive in Washing
ton for its defense, nve companies
reaching that city at Z p. M, April
18th, 1861.
Delaware furnished more men and
money in proportion to its military
population than any other State. The
Union deserters during the war num-
U6Ieu ZOI vi UuO hdISdo CIOOitS
IL per cent deserted. There died of
disease OF the Pennsylvania troops 5.5
per cent; Of the Kentucky troops
l46 per cent; of the Illinois troops 10
per cent. The Middle States troops
seem to have been far the sturdiest.
Aside from the great Importance of
the Stragctic issues of Meade'S vic
tory al Gettysburg, and the fact that
both armies there were at their best
in point of discipline, the tables of
the losses in each battle of the war
show that Gettysburg stood ahead in
that respect Of all other battles Of the
war fought by the Army Of the Po-
tomac and that of Northera Virginia.
The cost to the Union side OF
Meade's victory at Gettysburg was ali
aggregate loss of %, 900. Al the Will
derneSs, grant had about 10000 more
men, exclusive of the Army of the
james, but his losses fell 5000 below
Meade's at Gettysburg. The Union
losses at Cold Harbor were still lower
II, 731. At Spottsylvania, Grant lost
Is, 399 men in thirty-SlX hours.
In che following battles, among
Others, the Confederates remained in
undisturbed possession of the field,
the Union a1mies leaving their IN
buried dead and many wounded ia the
hands of tue Confederates: Leesburg,
or Balls Bluff, Cedar Mountain, Chan
tilly, Groyeton, first and second Dat
ties OF Bull Run, Seven Days (Vir-
ginia), Chickamauga, Wilderness
(Virg glnia) Spottsylvania, Dewry's
Blaff (Virginfal, Ream's Station
(Virginia), Hatcher's Run Virginia) !,
and Stone River. The Union losses
at certain battles which have served
to make great military regulations
H,., r,,>ri
with Gettysburg, Chickamauga and
Stone River. For instance, the ag-
gregate losses at OpeQuan (Va.) were
5.0i8; Fishers Hill (Va.) 52S; Cedar
Greek (Va.) 1865; Franklin (Tenn.
2, 1926; Five Forks (Va.) 9S4; Sailors
Creek, 1,180: Nashville (Tenn.) 3,O5I;
ts 1s64, 'e; e56; Res.ca, 5000. The The total tai
losses in the Atlanta campaign, from
May. until December, were only 5000
more than in the single battle OF
Chickamauga. The losses in the dif-
ferent assaults at Vicksburg were
about 5000. According to the returns
of the Confederates, their heaviest
losses were at the Seven Days bat
ties, when their aggregate loss was
2),6l4. Their returns show a loss
killed, wounded and missing, OF
20, 44S at Gettysburg.
This IS the book of revelations as tc
both sides in the civil war. On the
Confederate side North Carolina lost
more soldiers killed than any other
Southern State. The following was
the total loss in killed and mortally
wounded of several of the Southern
States: North Carolina, IA, 1922; Vir
ginia, 5,32S; South Carolina, 9,1S7
Georgia, 1858; Mississippi, 5,SO7
Louisiana, 9,714. North Carolina
heads the list in the number that
died of wounds, and 20,602 of her son.
died of disease, and 6,947 Virginians
North Carolina's military population
in 1861 was lis, 1863, but she furnished
Ia, 900 men to the Confederate cause
The percentage of lost, killed ano
wounded was greater in the Confed
crate armies than in the Union ar
mics. At Gettysburg the Twenty
Sixth North Carolina, OF Pettigrew'!
brigade, wenL into action with owe
800 men, and lost 558 in killed anc
on the morning of July 1, when thit
regiment fought the One Hundred
and Fifty-First Pennsylvania ant
| Cooper's battery. This Pennsylvani;
regiment lost 325 in killed, wounded
and missing at Gettysburg Th'
| Twcnty-Sixth North Carolina hat
/ only ZIG men left for duty when i
went into Longstreet's assault on TIN
| third day, and on the following da,
/ but so men were left. On the f1Is
| day Capt. Tuttle's company went int,
/ action with 3 officers and 81 men. AL
/ the officers and 83 of the men wcr
! killed or wounded. On the same da,
Company q of the Eleventh Norti