Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-21

men ana ZOO guns. Wellington ~
Waterloo, lost %, 1855; Meade, at Gettys-
burg, 26,003; Napoleon, $4,000 men, and
Lee 20,44S. At Gravelotte the Germans
lost 20,577 out of 146, 600 troops engaged.
At Borodino, the bloodiest battle since
the Introduction Of %gunpowder, the Rus
slams lost 30. 0 and the French over
10000, but the percentage OF loss was
less than at Gettysburg, Chickamauga
or Waterloo.
In the civil wa the union armies lost
3S5, 245 in killed, mortally wounded and
severely wounded. The total enrolment
OF the union armies, officers and men,
not including three and six months men,
was 1854, 272; l10,070 OF these were
killed and the deaths from disease,
wounds and other causes were 359,5 2S
more. The confederate army and navy's
total enrolment, including all classes
and the transcriptions, was about 600,
600 men, out of q population of 5,OOO,O 600
whites.
Twenty-eight per cent of the union
soldiers at Audcrsonville died; % per
cent of the confederates confined at Ell
mira, N. y, died; 2,9SS of the latter
were buried in o field which q year or
two afterward was plowed over and
planted in wheat. F~orty-eight per cent
of the union soldiers were farmers, "a
per cent mechanics, 16 per cent labor
crs, 8 per cent were in commercial pur-
suits, 3 per cent were professional men.
The Pennsylvania reserves was the
only division in the union armies COM
posed entirely Of troops from n state.
Hancock's old division of the Second
corps lost more killed and wounded than
any division in the union armies. Its
total losses were Is, S44. Close to it was
Gibbons division, in which was the
Philadelphia brigade. This division at
Gettysburg lost 1,642 out of 3,773 en-
gagged, 1875 per cent. The four regi-
ments in the Philadelphia brigade lost
in killed and those dying of wounds
during the war, $3.50 officers and men.
The compilers of these very remark
able figures give the essential statistics
of 300 fighting regiments--a 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
of killed entities them to this particular
analysis. OF these 300 fighting regi-
ment5 Pennsylvania furnished 53.
Among them were of the Pennsylvania
reserves the Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth,
Eleventh and Thirteenth (Bucktails);
only the Seventh and Eleventh cavalry,
although the killed and wounded of the
Pennsylvania cavalry exceeded the
losses of any other state cavalry: the
Twenty-eighth infantry Colonel Tyn-
dale), the Fiity-tirst infantry Colonel
Hartranft), the Fifty-third Colonel
Brooke), the Sixty-first Colonel ORR,
the Sixty-ninth Colonel Owen, the
Seventy-first Colonel Wistarl Bakers
Carter, the Ninety-seventh Colonel
Pennypacker), the Corn Exchange"
the Observation-Disclosures Col
onel Gideon Clark, tho O~ne-hundred-
an~d-tweuty-frst Colonel Biddle), the
observation-disclosures orty-eighth Colonel
Beaver. the Observation-Disclosures
ninth Colonel Roy Stone and other SUI
peru Pennsylvania regiments.
The union regiment which suffered
the greatest losses at Gettysburg for it's
enrolment a the Twenty-fourth
Michigan, whose total losses in two days
were 1863. The Pennsylvania regiments
whose losses were the greatest in that
battle were also in the First corps, viz:
The Observation-Disclosures and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, whose
lively. AT Spottsylvania the union
regiment suffering the greatest loss was
the One-hundred-an d-forty-eighth Penn
sylvania, Colonel (afterward g%overnor)
Beaver, with 3O1 killed, wounded and
missing. AT Pc river it led the list
again with a loss of 200.
The percentage OF killed of Penn
sylvania soldiers was greaterthan in the
quota of any other state. The total
losses of Pennsylvania cavalry in action
exceeded the cavalry losses of any other
state. Pennsylvania troops were the
first to arrive in Washington for its de-
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at 7 p. M, April 10, 1861. On the next
Sixth Massachusetts had their famous
fight in Baltimore, the Tw~enty-sixth
Pennsylvania losing one man killed and
several wounded. The Fifty-sixth
Pennsylvania Colonel Hoffmann) opened
the battle Of Gettysburg.
Other Interesting Facts.
Delaware furnished more mon and
money in proportion to its military pop
ulation than any other state. The union
deserters during the war numbered POL
397. OF the Kansas troops IL per cent
deserted. There died of disease, of the
Pennsylvania troops, IS per cent; OF
Kentucky troops, 14.6 per cent; of ILL
nois troops, 10 per cent. The Middle.
states troops seem to have been far the
sturdiest.
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the strategic issues of Meade'5 victory
at Gettysburg, and the fact hat both
armies there were at their best in point
of discipline, the tables of the losses in
each battle of the war show that Gettys-
burg stood ahead in that respect of all
other battles of the wal fought by the
Army of the Potomac and that of North
ern Virginia.
The cost to the union side of Meade's
victory at Gettysburg was an aggregate
loss of %, 900. At the Wilderness, 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 we're
still lower-l2, 1871. At Spottsylvania,
Grant lost 1899 men in thirty hours.
In the following battles, among
others, the c~onfederates remained in un-
disturbed possession of the field, the
union armies leaving their unburied
dead and many wounded in the hands of
the confederates: Leesburg, or Balls
Bluff, Cedar Mountain, Chantilly, Grove
ton, first and second battles of Bulls
Run, Seven Days (VirginiaL Chicka-
manga, Wilderness (Virginia), Spott-
sylvania, Drewry's Bluff (VirginiaL
Ream's Station (Virginia(, Hatcher's