Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-09-05

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Fiercene.s of the Combat
Following are 10 notable battles of
the century, where the loss i'll killed
and wounded exceeded 10 per cent Of
the number engaged:
l. Eilau, 1907 Russians and French. Loss,
% per cent.
2 Stone River (Murfreesborol. 1882. Loss,
23la per cent. The Union troops were not all
closely engaged, but their loss was p per cent.
3. Marengo 1880 Austrians and French.
Loss, y per cent.
1 Chickamauga 1913 Loss, q per cent. The
Union troops were not all closely engaged
but their loss was ~ per cent.
). Antietam. 1862. Loss, p per cent. Union
troops We're not all closely engaged, but their
loss was 10 per cent.
6 Leipsic, 1918. Allies and French. Loss,
q per cent heipsic has been termed by the
Germans 'tthe battle OF the nations on &C
count Of the vast armies enbled which
nun be red i65. GO men. 1t occurred the year
after Boro.lino, which until recent years has
been classed as the bloodiest battle OF modern
times. But an outside estimate on the best
figures attainable places the loss at Borodino
at about Il per cent
Z. Gettysburg. 1853. Loss, 20 per cent. Union
troops not oil closely engaged and their loss
10 per cent. The four Union corps most heav-
lily overwhelmingly. the First, Second. Third
and EleVenth-ItfSt X per cent ne SIX CNTlfs
most closely cngaged-including the Firth and
Tw, fifth with the aboye-lost about q per cent,
S. Shiloh, lSi2 Loss, ~ per cent. Union
loss, I7is per cent.
9 Mars la Tour. 1870. Germans and French.
Loss, 10 per cent.
10. Waterloo, Isl4. Loss, Ia per cont
II voerth 1870. Germans and French. Loss,
Il per cent.
L, sliferino, 1853 French and Austrians.
Loss, i per cent
10 sadowa. 1868 Prusstans and Austrians
Loss, II per cont
OF these battles ELAN, Marengo. Leip-
sic and Waterloo were fought with
smoothbore fiintlock muskets; Stone
River, Chickamauga, Antietam, Gettys
burg. Shiloh and Solferino with rltled
barrels and percussion caps, and Woerth
and Mars la-Tour with hreechloaders.
At Sadowa the Prussiaus had hreech
leaders.
If the figures for the losses at Eilau,
Mareugn and Leipsic could be given
with the exactness that applies To the
battles of the civil war it is probable
that the percentage of losses on those
fields would be found less than l have
estimated.
The figures handed down doubtless
include the prisoners or missing, thus
swelling the loss In the numbers given
for the civil war only the known killed
and wounded are included in the &C
count To be exact, then, Stone River,
ChickamaUga. AntIetam, Gettysburg
and Shiloh must be considered the blood
lest battles Of the century.
The Battle Scared Regions.
The war invested certain regions with
memories that can never fade The vet
Grams with their descendants and rela.
tives who take pride in the achieve
ments I kindred have made pilgrimages
10 the seeaf- hallowed by clash Of arms,
and evety wave Of interest set IN motion
by a battlefield tour braadens until thou
sands and tens Of thousands are drawn
in. Fat ASIDE from all this the battle
Scared regions remain monuments an
nouncIug IL" splendur and glory # the
past. 1t VII never be possible to tar
from the valleys # the Putamac, the
Rappahaunuck. the Shenandoah and the
James the associations Of the war; nel.
Their from the Tennessee, a Alabama and
Georgia mountains Of the west.
In the east the bloody ground was
between Getrysburg, Pa, On the north
and Suffolk. Va, on the south. the west
ern limit on line drawn through
Lynchburg, and the eastern through Nor
folk In tins district, about 100 miles
broad a. 80 miles long occurred -
battles, " here the loss IL killed outright
numbered over 100, 600 and the aggre-
gate # killed. and wounded was over
200, 600. II the lesser engagements and
III siege operations probably leo, 600
more We're numbered with the casual
ties.
Here We're fought the desperate stipg-
giles Of Gettysburg, Antietam. Malvern
Hill and Winchester, fields e glorious
memory TO the veterans " no conteudtd
there Here the Monitor bore down the
Merrimac and led off in new era Of
naval warfare Here, too, was Appomat
tox. Back and forth over this blood
stained arena the armies conteudcd IN
the campo gns Of the R"ppakannock, the
Peninsula, tAe invaslons Il Maryland
and PeunSy wanna, the Shenandoah and
the Wilderness.
The graves If the Union dead in this
consecrated arena number over 80, coo,
and tens Of thousands more, who thore
received Their death stIeke, Were horne
north to their last resting place. The
plains of Manassas, the wales through
which the Shenandoah rolls its placid
streams, the banks Of the Potomac and
the James We're affairs wherein the rich
blood Of patriots was shed as Ebatons
TO the god Of nationality.
The bloody ground in the west is al
most identical with the state of Tennes-
see. From Atlanta on the southern limit
to Knoxville on the northern is about
40 miles, and from Atlanta TO Mem
phis on the west about 800 miles With
in the limits come Chickamauga, Stone
River and Shiloh, three of the desperate
battles of the age, For three years the