The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-04-05
VALUABLE RECORD OF THE WAR.
The war Department win Issue
Volume Repiete with
luformn tiou.

The forthcoming volume Of the depart
ment records will contain the following
} among many other facts:
I'm the Union armies there were in al
$500 regiments, not including the thre,
or six months men. The Union infantr,
regiment which suffered the greatest loss
in battle during the war was the Fifth
New Hampshire, which in four years oil
service lost 295 men killed or mortality
wounded in action, including eighteen
officers. The Eightythird Pennsylvania
infantry comes next. II lost 2s2 officers
and men.
There were only forty-fve infantry resi.
ments which had, during the war, over
200 men killed and MORALLY wounded in
action. Ofthese regiments Pennsylvania
furnished eleven, a greater number than
other states; New York, Massachusetts
and Michigan furnished six each, and
little Vermont closely followed with four.
The Pennsylvania regiments on this
honor list we're the Eighty-thrd, One
hundred-snd.fiith, Sixty-iirst, Eleventh.
Forty-fifth, One-hundreth. One hun
dred-and-eighty, Eighty,frst, Fiity-fifth,
Observation-Disclosures. and Fifty.
third.
In the killed and wounded OF the Union
light artillery regiments Copper's battery
OF the First Pennsylvania artillery heads
the list with twenty-one killed and NOR.
tally wounded in action. Ricketts, Penn
sylvania battery is seventh, With loss
OF eighteen. and Bigelow's Massachusetts,
is ninth, with loss OF fifteen. The regi.
ment which had the most killed and
wounded in action during the entire war,
in proportion to its enrolment, was the
Second Wisconsin, with PERCENTAGE loss
1914 per cent. OF the twenty-five regi.
ments whose loss was above Is per cent
Pennsylvania furnished the highest num-
Der, six: Wisconsin comes next with four,
and New York and Massachusetts give
two each.
The Union infantry regiment with the
highest percentage OF killed, wounded
and missing in any one action was the
First Minnesota, which at Gettysburg
lost 2l5 men on July ., out of 262 engaged
The One Hundred and forty-first Penn
sylvania is second, having lost at Gettys-
burg l49 men out Of 1893 engaged, or 70. 7
per cent. This volume will give table
showing sixty-two Union regiments
which lost in action from So to so per
cent. The Light brigade at Balaklava
lost 1857 per cent. The heaviest loss of
any German regiment in the Franco.
Prussian war was 49.4 per cent
At Waterloo the French had 80 900
men and 252 guns the Allies $4,000 men
and 1856 guns. AT Gettysburg Mead had
s., 1000 men and 800 guns, and Lee 20, 900
men and 250 guns. Wellington, at Water
loo, lost 23,ls5; Meade, at Gettysburg,
26,003; Napoleon, 26,300, and Lee, 20 ,4ss.
At Gravelotte the Germans lost 20,577
out of 10000 troops engaged. At Boro-
dino, the bloodiest battle since the intro
duction OF gunpowder, the Russians lost
10000 and the French over 20, 900, but the
percentage of loss was less than at Gettys-
burg, Chickamauga or Waterloo.
In the civil war the Union armies lost
3O5,245 in killed, MORALLY wounded and
severely wounded. The total enrolment
OF the Union armies, officers and men not
including three and six months men was
1884, 272; 10000 OF these were killed,
and the deaths from diseases, wounds and
other causes were 359,52s more. The
Confederate army and navy's total en-
rollment, including all classes and the
transcription, was about 100000 men,
out of population of 5000, 900 whites.
Twenty eight per cent OF the Union SOL
diers at Andersonville died; % per cent of
the Confederates confined at Elmira, n.
Y, died: 2,9SS OF the latter were buried
in field which year or two sfterward
was plowed over and planted in wheat.
This is the book OF revelations as to
both sides in the civil war. On the Con-
federate side North Carolina lost more
soldiers killed than any other Southern
State. The following was the loss in
killed and mortally wounded of several OF
the Southern states North Carolina, 4, 522,
Virginia, 5,328; South Carolina 9,1S7 /;
Georgia, 1858; Mississippi, 5,s07; Louisi-
ana 9,l74. North Carolina heads the list
in the number that died of wounds, and
20 ,602 OF her sons died of diseases, and
6,947 Virginians. North Carolina's mill
tary population in 1861 was ll5 1863, but
she furnished 10000 men to the Con-
federate cause. The percentage of lost
and killed and wounded was greater in
the Confederate arm les than in the Union
armies. A. Gettysburg, the Twenty-sixth
North Carolina, of Pettigrew's brigade,
went into action with $40 men, and lost
5SS in killed and wounded and l20 miss
ing, most Of whom were also killed or
wounded.
Delaware furnished more men and
money in proportion to its military popu-
lation than any other state Tie Union
deserters during the war numbered POI,
1917. OF the Kansas troops, II per cent
deserted. There died of disease OF the
Pennsylvania troops So per cent; of Ken
lucky troops LAG per cent; OF Illinois
troops 10 per cent. The Middle states
troops seem to have been far the sturdi-
est.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.