The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-09-18

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miles broad and 200 miles long, oc-
CURED thirteen battles where the loss
in killed outright numbered over lOO,.
600, and the aggregate of killed and
wounded was over 100000. In the
Lesser engagements and in the siege
operations probably 100000 more were
numbered with the casualties.
Here were fought the desperate
struggles of Gettysburg, Antietam,
Malvern Hill and Winchester, fields of
glorious memory to veterans who con-
tended there. Here the Monitor bore
down the Merrimac and led off in a
new era of naval warfare. Here, too,
was Appomattox. Back and forth
over this blood stained arena the
armies contcnded in the campaigns of
the Rappahannock, the Peninsula, the
inyasions of Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania, the Shenandoah and the Will
derness.
The graves of the Union dead in
this consecrated arena number over
10000, and tens of thousands more,
who there received their death stroke,
were borne North to their last resting
place.
THE BLOODY GROUND
in the West is almost identical with
the State of Tennessee. From Atlanta
on the southern limit to Knoxville on
the northern is about one hundred and
forty miles, and from Atlanta to
Memphis on the west about three
hundred miles. Within the limits
come Chickamauga, Stone River and
Shiloh, three of the desperate battles
of the age. For three years the war
ragged back and forth across the State
of Tennessee. Fort Donelson, Nash
Vile, Murfreesboro, Knoxville, Chat:
tanooga and Corinth were scenes Of
repeated struggles. Over seventy
thousand Union dead lie in the ceme-
teries of that district, and tens Of
thousands were taken North from
there for burial. The great move
ments of Confederate invasion of the
North, under Bragg and Hood, were
met and checked in that section.
The soldiers engaged on both sides
numbered
NEARLY THREE MILLION MEN.
That means that, aside from every
other interest which turned men at
tention to the war, $1,000, 900 persons
looked upon the struggle as one of life
and death for self or some one dear to
them. But that is view too narrow.
In the South every family gave up
every able-bodied son, and in the
North it is scarcely possible to find
one not represented in the second de-
gree at least. Not merely the l5,OO0,-
600 soldiers and others represented by
them, but the entire 30,0OO,OO0 in
habitants, were stirred in every emotion
and in every feeling by the war.
There is still another side to the
magnitude at least not appreciated,
and that is the cost of it all-the
actual destruction involved in life and
property. Taken in mass The loss Of
life would show great cities wiped out,
and that of property whole States put
in pawn. The number of men in the
Northern armies alone, killed in battle
would equal the entire male adult
population of the cities of Buffalo and
Cleveland-that is to say, if every
man in those two cities should be cut
off by violent death, leaving every
home desolate and every woman and
child mourner, the calamity and the
sorrow would not be greater than those
entailed upon the whole North by the
bullets of the enemy. On the other
hand, the death roll of the Ccnfederates
would equal the entire male adult
population Of New Orleans as it is to-
day. But
Il DEATHS IN BATTLE
represent only one-third Of the lives
sacrificed in the service. In the
Union ranks there were 100000 deaths
from all causes during service. That
number exceeds the entire male pop
ulation of New York city proper, or Of
Chicago and Boston combined, with
either Cleveland or Buffalo thrown in.
If the entire population of St. Louis
was wiped out by death at one blow
the horror would just represent in
point Of numbers the sacrifices of the
North alone.
Besides the death casualties in war
there are those permanently disabled
by wounds and sickness. Add the
disabled soldiers in the Northern army
to those who fell in battle or from
other causes, and the number would
represent the entire body of the in
habitants of Cleveland and Buffalo.
These are striking estimates, but they
are true. They show the waste Of
life, the appalling destruction of the
best bone and sinew in the land. If
an epidemic were to PROSTATE all the
men in the cities of New York,
Brooklyn, Buffalo and Cleveland,
leaving three-ffths of them dead and
two.f .ffths laimed for life, the calamity
would be no greater in point Of the
victims than that entailed by the war
upon the Northern States.
In another portion of this article
comparisons are drawn between the
armies engaged in different campaigns
of the civil war and those of European
nations in the great struggle Of Napo-
Icons day. But the representation Of
armies by figures can only impress the
strongest imaginations on the minds of
those trained to estimate large masses
of men. The population Of State
may present tangible idea to those
who have travelled beyond the limits
of their native town or country.
If all the inhabitants-men, women
and children-of Kansas and Virginia,
or of North Carolina and New Jersey,
should be transformed into soldiers
and sent trooping toward the border
in armies of 100000 or 200, 900 at a
time, the spectacle would be a paral-
lei of the musters Of the great uprising
from 1861 to 1865, and all the soldiers
gathered in former conflicts Of the
United States, beginning with the
Revolution, and ending with the
Mexican war, would not equal the en-
tire population of the smallest of those
four States by 250, 900.
The cost of the war in treasures can
not be stated with the same exactness