The sun., 1895-01-20

Antietam campaign, / $3.50 killed, 9,349
wounded, and ,887 missing; Murfreesboro,
1,294 killed, 7,94b wounded, and 1,o27
missing the Seven Days Battle, 9, AIS killed,
1e,28i wounded, and S75 missing; Chancel
lorsville, 1905 killed, 9,osi wounded, and
2,0lS missing; Gettysburg, 2,592 killed,
12,7O8 wounded, and 6, 1 90 missing; Chick
amauga, e,81s killed, 14,874 wounded,
and 1,4e9 missing; Peach Tree Creek and
Atlanta, 1,341 killed and $500 wounded.
In these Confederate reckonings the wound
ed include also the mortally wounded,
making the death roll still higher.
From these battles we might go ON to
others, only less tremendous; and indeed
there were 112 battles In our four years
war, in which one side or the other lost over
500 in killed and wounded alone. Some OF
the minor battles were most deadly in their
intensity. Such are comparisons with the
half year of hostilites in Corea.
1t Is true that the battles here cited from
our annals were fought with far greater
forces on each side than those Of the Corean
war; but in any case there is no compari-
son for desperation and bloodiness in the
average fighting. Col Fox gives list of
ties had from so to 80 per cent. killed or
wounded, and Of over sixty regiments that
lost that percentage by adding the missing
in cases where the latter were also mostly,
IL not all. killed or wounded" The Fifteenth
New Jersey took 432 officers and men into
action at Spottsylvania, of whom 10 were
killed or died of their wounds The Twenty
fifth Massachusetts lost SO killed, 139
wounded and 2S missing at Cold Harbor,
out Of $40 reported for duty that morning.
Other instances could be cited both on the
Union and the Confederate side.
On the other hand, the latest statement
is that up to Dec. @, which includes Ping
Yang, the japanese army had in all only lost
$50 men killed in battle and 430 by disease.
Mr.. KIRKLEY, the well-known statistlcian,
puts the Union deaths from battle during
the four years of the civil war at 67,05S in
action and 43,O12 from wounds, total Of
1lO,O70.
To make closer parallels in the forces
engaged, we find the Second Corps losing at
Antietam sS3 killed, 1850 wounded, and
396 missing, out of $4,000 effectives; at
Gettysburg, 796 killed. 3,s16woupded and
3eS missing, out of about 10000 present
for duty and 1o,5OO engaged. The Fifth
Corps, with 25,695 present for duty, lost
4S7 killed, ASH wounded, and 1,S2S
missing at the Wilderness, and then, within
a week, at Spottsylvania, 657 killed, 8,44S
wounded, and 375 missing. The Sixth
Corps lost out of cd, 1873 present for duty
and equipped, 719 killed, 1850 wounded,
and 656 missing at the Wilderness, and 6sS
killed, 2,S20 wounded, and 534 missing at
Spottsylvania.
When we consider the populations OF
Japan and China, especially the latter, the
armies put into the field seem small, even
allowing for the lack of railroads in China
and for the transportation by water needed
by Japan. The latter, however, must be
credited with furnishing all the troops she
requires for her purposes, and also with
fighting hard enough always to beat the Chi
nese; but it is seen how the resulting battles
in severity of fighting fall far short of the
great shocks of arms in our civil war.