The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-08-09

loss in killed and died of wounds ex
ceede d ten per cent. of the total en-
rollment, Pennsylvania leads all III,
States in numbers, having furnished
81. Ohio 10, and Massachusetts Is.
The Union infantry regiment will
the highest percentages of killed
wounded and missing in any one ac
lion was the first Minnesota, which a
Gettysburg, lost cI5 men on July :,
out Of c62 engaged. The One Hun
dred and Forty first Pennsylvania is
second, having lost at Gettysburg I4s
men out of IoS engaged, or 1871 pei
cent. This volume will give table
showing sixty-two Union regiments
which lost in action from 3, to SC
per cent. The light Brigade at Ba
laklava lost 36.7 per cent. The heav
lest loss of any German regiment in
the France -Prussian war was 49.4 pc,
cent.
The private was safer than the off
Ger. At Gettysburg the officers los,
Fl per cent. in killed and wounded
while the enlisted men lost 81 pei
cent. At Gettysburg the percentage
of loss among the officers was fully one
half greater than in the Wilderness
The SiNty-first Pennsylvania lost more
officers killed than any infantry
regiment in the Union army-I9, in
cluding three Colonies.
AT Waterloo, the French had So,-
900 men and $50 guns the allies IT,,
900 men and IS3 guns. At Gettys-
burg Meade had 81, 900 men and 800
guns and Lee 10000 men and $50
guns, and Wellington, at Waterloo,
lost 23,IS5 Meade, at Gettysburg
c6,oo3: Napoleon, 26, 800 men, and
Lee, 2o,44S. AT Gravelotte, the
Germans lost ,o,577 out Of I46, 900
troops engaged. At Borodino, the
bloodiest battle since the introduction
of g'In-powder, the Russians lost 3o,-
900, and the French over 20, 900, but
the percentage of loss was less than at
Gettysburg, Chckamauga, or Waterloo.
In the civil war 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 2,S64,-
2S2; IIo,o7o of these were killed, and
the deaths from disease, wounds, and
Others causes were S59,52S more. The
Confederate Army and Navy's total
enrolment including all classes and
the conscriptions, was about 100000
men, out of population Of 5000, 900
whites.
Twenty eight per cent. of the Union
soldiers at ,\ndersonville died twenty
five per cent. of the Confederates con-
fined at Elmira, N. Y, died 1888 of
the latter were buried in field which
a year or two afterwards was plowed
over and planted in wheat. Forty
eight per cent. of the Union soldiers
were farmers, twenty-four per cent.
mechanics, sixteen per cent. laborers,
five per cent. were in commercial pur-
suits, and three per cent. were profes-
sional men.
The Pennsylvania Reserves were the
only division in the Union armies
composed entirely of troops from one
State. Hancock's old division of the
Second Corps lost more killed and
wounded than any division in the
Union armies. Its total loss was
1884.
The compilers of these very remark
able figures give the essential statistics
Of 800 fighting regiments list which
includes every regiment in the Uuion
armies which lost over I2o in killed or
died of wounds during the entire war,
and few regiments whose percentage
killed, entities them to this particular
analysis. OF the 800 fighting regiments
Pennsylvania furnished s..
The Union regiment which suffered
the greatest loss for its enrolment was
the Twenty-fourth Michigan, whose
total losses in two days were 365.
The percentage Of killed of Penn.
sylvania soldiers was greater than in
the quota of any other State. The
total losses of Pennsylvania cavalry ir
action exceeded the cavalry losses o
any other State. Pennsylvania troops
were the first to arrive in Washington
for its defense, five companies reaching
that city at 7 p m. April I8, 1861.
Delaware furnished more men anc
money in proportion to its militar.
population than any other State The
Union deserters during the war mum
bered 2oI, 1877. OF the Kansas troop
II per cent. deserted. There died 0
disease OF the Pennsylvania troops s.!
per cent; of the Kentucky troops
I4.6 per cent. of Illinois troops 10 pc
cent. The Middle States troops seen
to have been far the sturdiest.
Aside from the great importance G
the strategic issues of Meade's victor
at Gettysburg, and the fact that bot
armies there were at their best in poln
of discipline, the tables of the loss il
each battle of the war show tha
Gettysburg stood ahead in that respeC
of all other battles of the war tough
by the Army of the Potomac and tina
of Northern Virginia.
The cost to the Union side {
Meade's victory at Gettysburg was a
aggregate loss of $4,000. At tn
Wilderness, Grant had about 5000
more men, exclusive of the Army {
the James, but his losses fell 600
below Meade's at Gettysburg. II
Union losses at Cold Harbor wei
still lower-I2,737. AT Spottsyivan
Grant lost 1880 men in thlr'
hours.
In the following battles, amor
others, the Confederates remained
undisturbed possession of the field, Il
) Union armies leaving their unburis
| dead and MANY wounded in the han,