The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-12-21

Pa.) Lndepcndcnt- Gazette we find tn,
following:
"A cable dispatch from London
contains Il statement that Il message
sent by General Mcthuen to Queen
Victoria said that the MOddcr river
battle was the 'bloodicst Of the cen
tury.' 1t is not probable that General
Methuen said any such thing, unless
possibly with reference to the losses
in comparison with the total number
OF men engaged, says an apparently
well-lnformed writer. He points out
that the number of Beers engaged
was only about 5000. according to
the British reports, and as General
Methuen Is i'll command of only one
division of the British army sent to
the Iransvaal, no battle between
those forces could have been the
bloodlest of the century. unless the
slaughter of both armies was com
plete.
AT the battle of Austerlitz. Dcccm-
Der 2nd, 1903, the French lost 1000
officers and men, and the killed and
wounded of the allies numbered more
than 5000.
The French losses at Bautren. in
1913, were 1900, and at Wagram, in
lso9, they lost $4,000. although in
that battle they took 20, 900 Austrians
prisoners.
AT the MosCOva, on the retreat from
Moscow, they lost 10000. AT the
great battle of Leipsic, in 1913. a three
days battle, the French losses were
10000. More than 10000 of the
French persisted on the field, alto
gether 10000 men persisted on the
field.
LAT Waterloo the British lost & 1872.
the French $3.50. The total losses
OF the allied armies there were t 200
killed and 1889 wounded. besides
1921 missing.
lin the last great attack on Sehas-
topol, September s. 1888, the French
lost 1,6l6 killed and 1000 wounded.
besides LOO missing, and the English
lost $50 killed. l,SS6 wounded and
1I6 missing. Al Plevna between
$4,000 and 10000 Russians were Ri
ed and wounded. the Turkish loss
being about 5000 less than the Rus
slams.
LIN the war between Germany and
Austria in 1866 the PrussianS lost
ZIP and the Austrians l4.3l4 at
konig graft; at Nachod the Prussians
l,322 and the Austrians 4.7S1. and ut
Skalltz the PrusSians 500 and the
Austrians 5,5G.
LIN the Franco-PruSSian war the
Germans At WeiSsenburg-W Worth lost
l2,9l4 and the French 5000 in killed
and wounded besides which the
French lost $4,000 prisoners.
Another authority puts the French
loss AT 10. 900.
''At Sedan the Germans lost 1881.
The French army of the North con-
sisted OF l5o.Ooo men. and the three
armies of Germany of 250. 600 men in
that three DAYS battle. in which
$4,000 French were taken prisoners.
In our Civil War the aggregate
losses at the battle of stones river
were 1929 on the Union side and
1926 on the Confederate side.
These figures include killed. /
wounded. captured aud missing.
The Union killed were $50 and
the Confederate /, 294.
AT Antietam the Union killed
numbered 2,l0s. the wounded 9,54o. |
AT the first Bull Run battle 40
Union men were killed and l.O7lI
wounded. the Confederate firures /
being S>1 killed and .5S2 wounded. |
AT Fair Oaks 100 Northern men
anu 9oo Southern were killed, the |
North losing in wounded 1891 and
the South 4.749.
AT gettysburg the Union losses in
Killed were 800, wounded l4.497. /
ana the Confederates 1892 killed. |
1900 wounded.