The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-05
BLOODY BATTLES or CIVIL WAR.
Losses Sustained mt GettySburg, Bull
Run ana Elsewhere.


was the decisive one at Gettysburg, which
turned the tide in favor OF The North. The
losses were enormous on both sides.
Though they nearly balanced each other
in actual number, the Confederate loss was
proportionately the largest footing up the.
almost unprecedented total of So per cent,
while the Federal loss was p per cent.
1t is estimated that the Federal force num-
bered 1000 men and the Confederate 69,-
00O
The official reports of the losses are pre-
else enough. They place the Federal loss
at 1884 killed S7G9 wounded, and 66i5
missing-23, 1856 men in all. The Southern
loss is given as 1855 killed. T., $50 wounded,
aud 1854 missing, or 22.72S men in all,
which. with the 300 men killed or wounded
in the cavalry on July and 8. foots up
their total losses at more than 5000
Yet these official figures are rather be-
low than above the total amount of dam
age done to and by both armies in these
bloody struggles. Thus, while the Federal
reports acknowledged 1854 killed, the re-
ports made by the hospitals bear evidence
TO the burial of 3575 Union corpses The
number of Federals who actually perish
ed at Gettysburg may be estimated at
4,000 some 200 or LOO having died OF their
wounds.
on the other hand, Meade had 1921, Con-
federate prisoners. But there were 1882
wounded among them% Hence there only
remained $3.50 able bodied prisoners. The
number of 7,464 reckoned by Lee as the
number of men missing must therefore,
represent, besides these able bodied pris-
oners, most of the men seriously wounded
during the attack made by Pickett and
Heath, and abandoned on the battlefield.
1t is obvious, therefore, that the total
number of Confederate wounded was more
~ IS "a n Ia to SIM
pose that after the combat the wounded
were for a few days more rapidly deci-
mated than their Federal companions in
affliction.
Among the dead and wounded on both
sides were an unusual number of superior
officers, who had most CALAMITY exposed
themselves. The t'ederals had ten gen
erals wounded and left two in the hands
of the enemy. The ConfederateS lost sew
| enteen generals, three of whom were kill
ed thirteen wounded and three captured.
1t was not until the official reports of
| losses came in that ii was shown that even
Bull Run, as the first battle of Manassas
| is sometimes called though il ended in
| disastrous panic on the Northern side,
was bravely and stubbornly contested on
both sides for many hours. The Confed-
| crate army of $1,000, reinforced a the nick
! of time by 5000 men, drove the Federal
army of $4,000 back on Washington with a
J loss Oh 6J0B men. Ioul tiIH9 ltiSAlSNiNNS
lost 1852.
In the second battle of Manassas the
Union forces of 1900 men We're defeated
! by So 900 Confederates, with a loss to the
former of 1000 and TO the latter of 724l
men.
AT Charlottesville where the Federal
army under Hooker was defeated, its loss
was 1905 killed, 1892 wounded and 5,9l9
missing, or 17,2S7 men in all. The Con-
! federate loss amounted 90 less than 1900
men of whom $500 were wounded, 1851
! killed and from LOCO to 1900 taken prs-
oners.
At the battle of Shiloh. or Pittsburg
Landing, the total Confederate loss was
reported a 1869. The Federal loss, made
up from official statements, shows 1,700
! killed, 7945 wounded 3022 prisoners; ag-
! gregate 10,O5O.
Grants capture of Fort Donelson was
effected with 1900 men, 5000 less than
the enemy. The latter was strongly in
| trenched and fortified. AS al Santiago,
the fleet came to the assistance of The be-
siegers. Their total loss was some 1900
men. The Confederates captured were
/ more than 5,000 men.
The indecisive battle of Fair Oaks was
attended by a loss on the Federal side Of
! 5739 men-namely, $50 killed, 3,627 wound
ed and 222 prisoners. The total Confed-
crate loss was 6,120
AT Gaines Min, or Chckahominy the
/ losses We're heavy on both sides. Out of
/ 81 900 men engaged, the Federals had near
| ly 1000 Killed and wounded. Their victorious
assailants, who numbered some 1900 men,
| suffered even more
The seven days fighting which succeeded
! Gaines Mill, and in which the entire ar
/ mics Of Mcclellan and Lee We're engaged,
were all bloody. On the 4th of July, when
the former reached fIarrsons Landing,
| he found himself with $1,000 men under
| arms, which meant a loss since the 10Th
! of June preceding, Of 15.2i9 men. OF these
| $50 had been killed 1900 wounded and 81
| 95S missing. The losses of Lees army dur
/ ing the same period amounted to some 2o,-
/ 900 men, more than one-fourth of its effec-
| tive force.
McClenau's final great victory a Antle-
| tam was the bloodiest that had so far been
| fought in the war The Federal losses
| amounted TO 900 killed, 9,4l6 wounded aud
! ] .C43 Observation-Disclosures u ,469 men among
| whom were eight generals, two corps com
/ manders and three division commanders.
/ Those of Lee, compared with the number
/ Of his troops, were stin heavier lie had
nearly 1000 killed, including two generals.
! His wounded numbered about 1909 HIS
! little army had been reduced by at least
| 10000 in a single day lie himself ac-
| lnowledged a total loss of 1867 killed, and
| SPA wounded IN the battles OF Crampton's
/ CAP. Turner's Gap. Harper's Ferry and
!
! part less than those given by his subordi-
| mates Lee makes no mention of the mum
/ Der of able bodied prisoners left IN the
/ hands of the Federals, but Longstreet ac-
/ knowledges ,3iG for his own corps, and d.
/ H. Hill 925 for his division. Mcclellan puts
/ the total Of prisoners a 1000 A fair aver
/ age between these conflicting statements
would make the number 1900.
! Thus, according to the account Of the
! general-in-chief of the Confederate armies,
/ his losses at Antetam and the four days
| preceding were al least ll,000 men. Four
fffths of these losses were incurred at An
| tetam Itself
Grants operations against Vicksburg
from May ] to July 4, 1862 when that city
! capitulated were costly, not only In treas
ure buf in blood. During that time he
took sdme 1900 prisoners, whhe Gen.
! Banks. who had been In the field since the
middle Of April, took 1854. The number
! of Killed and wounded 10 The armies OPP
posed to them amounted to nearly 1900
/ total Of como or 1fa com ha TO ufo taIyar