The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-04

states where only few are ever spok-
 en of, and of the actual number but lit
 tie Is known. For instance, should
 civil service examination require an ap-
 plicant to name the state in which the
 greatest number of battles took place,
 excepting, of course, Virginia, he would
 naturally reply Kentucky or Tennessee,
 While as matter of fact more battles
 were fought in Missouri than in any
 other state. In Texas the fewest num- Der took place of any of the seeding states, while Florida and Maryland
 come next in the ascending scale. The
 actual number of engagements that oc-
 cured in each state will doubtless sur
 prise those who have not investigated
 the matter As Virginia was the great
 theater of that struggle, we hear often
 est of Bull Run, the Seven Days bat
 ties, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Petersburg and the Valley campaign, but by actual count, taken from the records. 627 battles were fought in that commonwealth during the civil war. In Missouri the greatest l prominence is given to the battles of Elk Horn and Wilson's Creek, while, as
 matter of fact, AT engagements took | place altogether Tennessee is famous as the scene of the battles of Murfrees- 1 boro, Lookout Mountain, Chickamauga, l Franklin and other important strug- 1 gles, but at the close of the strife 37S engagements were put down as her l quota.
 In Arkansas. one of the border states, 1 thpra oo11ab bord ub pao 1 Ridge being one of the important en- gagements, but there were 294 battles
 in all. Vicksburg was in the fury of a ! long siege, and the battles of Corinth, l Holly Springs and Jackson also took | place in Mississippi; add to these the | other engagements that occurred in | that state and we have total of 2S4. l Louisiana comes next in point of num- | bers, with 1S1, among these being the l battles of New Orleans, Pleasant Hills | and the siege of Port Hudson as events 1 that will live in history. Georgia, the | route of Sherman's march to the sea, | furnished many of the notable battles l of the war. among them Atlanta, Kene- i saw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Re- 1 saca, Savannah and Ringgold, the total | being 162. In Kentucky there were 159 battles during the war that of Perry | vile being perhaps the most important | In Alabama there were 105 engage
 ments, notable among them being the I bombardment of Mobile and battles l around Selma and Montgomery. Next on the list comes North Carolina, with l a total of 102 battles, among them Ben l tonville, Wilmington and Greensboro | In West Virginia eighty-eight engage l ments took place. In South Cadolna,
 where the first gun of the war was 1 fired, there were seventy-five battles l including the capture of Columbia and the numerous bombardments of Fort 1 Sumter and the assaults that were made upon the batteries in Charleston 1 harbor. In the Indian Territory there
 were forty battles, and in Florida there were thirty-nine, the most important | being the battle of Olustee. Maryland 1 is famous for strategic importance be- cause the battel of Antietam took place
 within her borders, but there were also
 thirty-eight other engagements. There i were twenty-two engagements in Kan
 sas during the war and In Texas
 twelve Gettysburg, the greatest battle l Ol the war, WdS fought III 1e0nSylVu- mia, but there were six other engage
 ments in that state which have been
 overshadowed by that more important
 event. In Ohio there were five engage
 ments, in Indiana five, Illinois one, and 1 in the District of Columbia (Earlys | raid) one,
 According to the above figures, and they are taken from the records, the to- tai number of battles that were fought l between the Union and Confederate ar
 mics from April 15, 1861, to April 9, 1865
 is 3,125. This period embraced the foul | years of the civil strife To give ar idea of how this compares with other
 struggles in which the United States
 have been engaged, 1t may be here sta ted that more battles took place ir
 West Virginia during the civil war thar
 were fought in the entire country dur ing the Revolutionary war or during
 the war with Mexico. Of course, there l were numerous battles of greater i'm portance during the latter conflicts, but by count the number of engagements | by comparison is in West Virginia's ia
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