The leader., 1899-09-27

Intensely Interesting Facts Relating to the
| Civil War.
Mississippi Confederates will read
with deep interest the following facts
and figures extracted from the report
of DIR. c. II. Tebault, of New Orleans.
He is surgeon-general. United Confed-
crate Veterans, and has been engaged
for several years in compiling data re-
lating to the medical service of the
| Confederacy. This work has been rem
dered difficult by the destruction, in
| April. 1865. of the medical and surgical
records deposited in the surgeon-gen-
erals office in Richmond.
The report from which these figures
| are taken is the one submitted by DIR.
Tebault at the Atlanta reunion, 1898:
| OF the "a States and Territorities, only
eleven seeded In these eleven States, the
men of military age-from Is to - years
numbered / 1854, 1913, inclusive of lame, halt,
blind, etc. On the Union side the same
class numbered 4,559,s7 over to l, with
out estimating the constant accessions from
the world at large, augmenting constantly
the Union side
The United States in enlisted men num-
bered 2 500, OPS, against not exceeding 600,
| 600 on the side of the Southern Confederacy.
With the States of Kentucky, Missouri,
Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee and
the remainder of the Southern States, the
remarkable fact appears, that the South it.
self-the slave States-gave exceeding 300
600 to the Union side, more than half as
many soldiers as comprised the entire Con
| federate army.
In numbers the Federal loss was 60 05S
killed and a., 0l2 died of wounds; total ll0,-
go. OF the Confederates the like total W as
i4,524. The Confederates had 53.113 killed
outright and l94026 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, untiring, important
part thus borne by the skllful Confederate
surgeons in maintaining in the field an eff
fective army of unexampled Confederate
soldiers must challenge particular atten-
ton.
The report of Mr.. Stanton, as secretary
of war, on the 10Th of July 1865 exhibits
Confederate hands during the war, only
22.510 died; while of the Confederate pris-
oners in Federal hands. %, 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 210, 900;
while the whole number of Confederates
captured and held in prisons by the Fed
erals was in like round numbers only 220,
600 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
i'll 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
i'll determining on which side there was the
most neglect cruelty and inhumanity, pro
claiming, as they do, loss by death of
more than 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
Goth of May, 1865, the date of final surren-
der, under General +. Kirby Smith, was,
according to the muster rolls, little under
10000 This embraces quite number,
who from disease and wounds, were not
actually in the field at the time. The whole
number of Federal forces then in the field
and afterwards mustered out of service, as
the records show, amounted in round num-
bers to ,050,000
The total loss of killed and died of wounds
in the Franco-German war was 81 per
cent; that of the Austrians in the war of
1866, 2.6 per cent; that of the Allies in the
Crimean, 3.2 per cent. But in our war the
percentage was far greater, for the Fed
erals lost A. per cent and the Confederates
over per cent, the heaviest loss of any
modern army, that fell around it's stand
ard. have here arranged a skeleton of
facts, which, with united and earnest pur-
pose, we can fill out to its full and perfect
professional contour to the honor and credit
of our Southland