The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-09-30

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Civil War
Mississippi Confederates will rea
.i,h deep interest the following fact
nl figures extracted from the repor
"eDr. G. II. Tobault, of New Orlean,
#, IS encouragement. United Confed
rate Veterans, and has been engage
tor several years in compiling data re
t,ting to the medical service of tn
ronfederacy. This work has been rem
5ored difficult by the destruction, il
,,ril 1865. Of the medical and surgica
records deposited in the surgeon-gen
rails office in Richmond.
The report from which these figure
are taken is the one submitted by DIR
Tebault at the Atlanta reunion, 1898:
N the "a States and Territorities only
olayen seeded. In these eleven States, tn
men of military age-from Is to 10 years
numbered ,064, 1913, inclusive of lame halt
hind etc On the Union side the sam
Glass numbered 1859, S12, over to /, with
ant estimating the constant aCcessions from
4 tbe world at large, augmenting constantly
the Union side
The United States in enlisted men mum
bered q sos OBS, against not exceeding 600,
MOop the side of the Southern Confederacy
With the States Of kentucky, Missouri
MARYLAND, West Virginia, Tennessee ant
the remainder of the Southern States the
4 remarkable fact appears, that the South it,
/ self-the slave States-gave exceeding 300,
900 to the Union side, more than half as
many soldiers as comprised the entire Con.
. federate army.
In numbers the Federal loss was g., O5s
killed and 43, Ol2 died of wounds; total ITO,
070 Of the Confederates the like total was
i4524. The Confederates had 50, 773 killed
outright and 4,026 wounded on the field
Of battle. 1t is estimated that each of the
100000 Confederates were, on an average,
disabled for greater or lesser periods, by
wounds or sickness, about six times during
the war. The heroic, untring, important
part thus borne by the skillful Confederate
surgeons in maintaining in the field an eff
fectiye army of unexampled Confederate
soldiers, must challenge particular atten-
ton,
The report of Mr.. Stanton, as secretary
Of war, on the 18th of July, 1866, exhibits
the fact that of the Federal prisoners in
Confederate hands during the war, only
% $40 died while of the Confederate pris-
oners in Federal hands, &c, 436 died This
report does not set forth the exact number
Of prisoners held by each side respectively.
The whole number of Federal prisoners
captured by the Confederates and held in
Southern prisons from first to last, during
the war was in round numbers go 900;
while the whole number of ConfederatGa
captured and held in prisons by the Fed
erals was in like round numbers only 220,
O00 From these two reports it appears
that with $4,000 more prisoners in Southern
stOckades, or other modes Of confinement,
the deaths were 1000 less According to
these figures, the per cent of Federal deaths
in Southern prisons was under nine; while
the per cent of Confederate deaths in
Northern prisons was over twelve. These
mortuary statistics are of no small weight
in determining on which side there was the
most neglect cruelty and inhumanity pro-
claiming, as they do, loss by death of
more than 3 per cent of Confederates over
Federals in prisons, while the Federals had
an unstinted command of everything.
The whole number of Confederates sur
rendered from the 9th of April, 1865, to the
25th of May, 1865 the date of final surren
der, under General e. Kirby Smith, was,