The times., 1899-01-19
D Ucrltc NiITcU NnU Dl
Wounds and Disease.


While these returns are obviously in
complete they are worth noting, as they
show that at least 1854 were killed or
died of wounds, and that certainly 59.2sl
died of disease. The only States where
the figures approximate to fuliness are
North and South Carolina. Those famil-
lar with Southern war statistics are con-
fident that the Virginia killed and died OF
wounds exceeded that OF anySother State
except perhaps North Carolina, yet her
losses in this compilation from the in
complete official returns are but little more
than half those of the small State OF South
Carolina. The official records of the war
show conclusively in the running reports
that Alabama lost in killed and died of
wounds fully 1000 men. The losses of
the border States" Missouri. Kentucky
and Maryland are obviously incomplete.
Missouri alone lost more killed than is
here stated The records of battles do not
show that South Carolina lost in killed
and died of wounds such disproportion
exceeding the other States, excepting
North Carolina. Her troops fought very
we'll. and sometimes lost heavily. but the
losses of Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana regiments were certainly as
great il not greater. besides which most
of the States named, together with Vir-
ginia. had a greater number of regiments
engaged III UiCSt OIL l0e great Inc
explanation of the figures is that the loss
es of the two Carolina States are fully set
out whereas those OF the others are only
partially included. because the official rolls
were lost in the hurly burly of the wind
UP. But enough is shown in this table to
confirm the official records quoted by Col
Fox showing that the Confederate killed
and died of wounds numbered fully "a 900.
OF course, the statement of the aggre-
total. In the beginning OF the war the
Confederate regiments were terribly raw
aged by disease, as fugitive statements in
the official records make perfectly ain.
If North Carolina lost 90 602 of her sol
diers by disease il is hardly credible that
Georgia, furnishing approximately the
same number OF troops, lost only 3,I02
from the same cause. 1t is probable. as
has been stated by high Southern author
ity in recent years, that the Confederate
losses from disease appropriated closely
to 125, ,000 men. 1t is easy TO deduce from
the foregoing table that the deaths from
disease could hardly have fallen short Of
that total
The Confederate dead like the Union,
lie buried on every battlefield from Get
tysburg to the mouth OF the Rio Grande
and at all the prison depots throughout
the North. A few of their dead have
been eXhumed here and there and remov-
ed by their friends, but there has been
no general care of the Confederate dead
like that which characterized the Union
policy, for the reason that there was no
central authority to direct and no Gov
ernment Treasury to pay the expense of
such an undertaking. The South has al
ways longed to mark and care for the
graves of her dead soldiers on similar
plan and scale with that of the North,
but. impoverished by the war. she has
been unable to do so. Several patrio.ic
societies have made efforts to do some
thing toward this much desired end. but
compared with the vastness of the whole
task but little may be said TO have heeu
accomplished.
In some of the principal battles of the
war, selected from all the various thea
tres, the gallant Confederates made the
following losses in killed outright. the
figures not including those who afterward
died OF wounds: