The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-01-04
WAR REVELATIONS.
The Work that is Being Done in the
War Department

QpuS
pages EACH are completed, aud furnish the most
accurate history ever published of Nation s
internecine war.
The work has been impartially done, declares
tbe Ral,imore Herald Besides the five Union
officers employed, two Confederate general Off
GERS have always been engaged in editing the
war archives pertaining TO the dead Confed-
eracy. Those now employed are Lieut. Gen.
Alexander p. Stewart. of Mississippi graduate
of West Point and Corps Commander IN the
Army of the Tennessee, for that army, and
Mai-Gen. l. /. LOmaX, of Virginia, one OF j..
L b. Stewards best cavalry officers, for the
Army Of Northern Virginia.
The most interesting feature OF the work is
not yet in print, but in course of preparation.
1t is an exhaustive compilation from official
records of the casualties on both sides III tie
war The labor has taken many years. The
result will be the most valuable volume IN the
history of the war that can ever be published
Here are facts not opinions. The arguments
here make themselves uGansweTahle, unless
these statistics are shown TO be wrong and
other and different statistics shown TO be right.
1t will be made plain beyond all room for
controversy in this volume that much of the
hardest fighting Of the war was between the
Army Of the Potomac and the Army OF North
ern Virginia and the figures in this volume
will show that the infantry regiments from the
Eastern States did the hardest fighting III the
Union army.
They also prove that the Confederacy sue
cnmbei by the exhaustion of Lees army, and
are an emphatic comment upon the idleness OF
any military theory that a different conduct OF
campaign or other tactics than those actually
adopted would have ended the war before the
forces Of the Confederacy were destroyed.
They demonstrate too. that, like other civil
wars which have been prolonged far beyond
the point where one Nation would have &C
knowledged itself beaten by another. the war
for the UAiOn had TO be fought out to the end.
Many OF the revelations in this important
volume will astomish the reader. The tables of
deaths and wounds that are given measure the
actual Sighting as nothing else can. They
carry conviction toward reversal OF any
judgment founded merely upon general claims.
One thing clearly shown is the oveIshadOw-
ing Importance of the battles of Gettysburg
and Cbickamauga the greatest battles the
Confederate and Union armies. East and West,
ever fought. The losses in these engagements
prove how much 6ercer was the fighting in
these battles than it was before ever was
Rgain between the two armies engaged during
the war.
On the other hand other battles have made
military regulations sink into comparative in
significance. Meade gains. and Sheridan, Tor
instance, loses by the bringing together of these
statistics The heroic valOr of the North Caro-
lima troops excites the highest admiration, and
Pennsylvania. which lost more in killed and
wounded, in proportion TO the number OF its
troops, than any Northern State, can well send
greeting TO North Carolina, whose soldiers at
Gettysburg did the hardest fighting on the other
side, over the happy reunion of the present
years.
In the Union armies there were. in all, $500
regiments, not including the three or six
months men. The Union infantry regiment
which suffered the greatest loss in battle
during the war was the 9Th n. H.. which. in
four years Of service. lost 295 men killed or
MORALLY wounded in action, including Is
officers. The SD Pa. comes next. 1t lost 262
officers and men.
There were only IS infantry regiments which
bad, during the war, over 200 men killed or
aortally wounded in action. OF these regi-
nents Pennsylvania furnished IL. greater
number than any other State. New York,
Massachusetts, and Michigan furnished six
eaeB and little Vermont closely followed with
fsur. The Pennsylvania regiments OH this
honor list were the SD, 105th, 6lst. 18th, 45th,
Tooth, l05th, 6lst, 55ih, l45th, and SD.
In the killed and wounded of the Union
tight artillery regiments Cooper's battery of
the LIST Pa. Art. heads the list with a loss of 81
killed and mortality wounded in action. Rick
etts's Pennsylvania battery is seventh, with
loss of Is and Bigelow's Massachusetts is ninth,
with loss of Is. The regiment which had the
most killed and wounded in action during the
entire war, in proportion to its enrolment. was
the I'd Wis., with percentage loss OF 1914 per
cent. OF the % regiments whose loss was
above Is per cent. Pennsylvania furnishes the
highest number, six; Wisconsin comes next
with four, and New York and Massachusetts
give two each.
The Union infantry regiment with the high
est percentage Of killed, wounded. and missing
in any one action WIS the 1st Mimi. which at
Gettysburg lost 2l5 men on July 2, out Of 262
engaged. The 14lst Pa. is second, having lost
at Gettysburg lag men out of 1873 engaged, or
S5.7 per cent.
This volume will give a table showing So
Union regiments which lost in action from 81
TO 90 per cent. The Light Brigade at Bala-
kiavs lost 36.7 per cent The heaviest loss of
any German regiment in the Frarco-Prussian
war WAS 49.4 per cent.
At Waterloo the French had $4,000 men and
252 guns; the allies ~ 600 inen and ls6
guns. At Gettysburg Meade had $1,000 men
and 300 guns, aud Lee 90 900 men and $50 guns.
Wellington, at Waterloo, lost % IFS; Meade, at
Gettysburg 26.003; Napoleon, 20 300, and Lee,
20,44S. At GTavelOtte the Germans lost 20, ST.
out Of 10000 troops engaged. At Borodino,
The biOOdiest battle since the introd uction of
Runpowder, the Russians lost 10000 and the
French over 10000. but the percentage of loss
was less than at Gettysburg, Chickamauga, or
Waterloo.
Ia the civil war the Union armies lost
395,245 IN killed, MORALLY wounded, and
severely wounded. The total enrolment of
tie DuiOn armies, oulcefs and men, not lnclud-
ing three and six months men, was 2, S64, 272;
1l0.070 Of these were killed, and the deaths
from diseases, wounds, and other causes were
359.526 more.
The Confederate army and navy's total en-
rollIDent, including all classes and the con-
serpiiOns. WAS about 100000 men out of
population Of 5000, 900 whites
TTenty-eight per cent. of the Union soldiers
n Andersonyille died; % per cent Of the Con-
federates confined at Eimira, n. Y died; 9 9sS
OF the latter were buried in field, which, a
year or two afterwsrd, was plOwed over aud
planted in wheat
This is the book of revelations as 10 both
sides in the civil war. On the Confederate side
North Carolina lost more soldiers killed than
any other Southern State.
4 following was the loss in killed and NOR.
tall wounded Of several of the Southern States:
North Carolina, 1922; Virginia. 532S: South
Carolina, 9.le7; Georgia, $685. Mississippi,
5.oO7; Louisiana, 9.i74. North Carolina heads
tho list IN the numher that died of wounds
and 20.602 of her sons died of disease, and
6,91 NiFginians North Carolina's military
population in 1861 was 1899 but she fur
iisEed l25.0O0 men to the Confederate cause
The percentage of lost and killed and
wounded WAS greater in the Confederate army
than in the Union armies. At Gettysburg the
26tb n. C., Of Pettigrew's Brigade, went into
action with over 500 men, and lost 5SS in killed
and wounded aud 100 missing, most of whom
were also killed or wOunded
Delaware furnished more men and money in
proportion to its military population than any
other State The TJusuu Disorders 6uriny the