The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-02-01
WOUNDS AND DISEASE.

W hlle these returns are OBVIOUSLY IN
complete, they are worth noting, as
they show that at least -, 523 were kill
ed or died Of wounds, aud that certainly
59,297 died of disease. The only States
where heigures approximate to fulness
are North and South Carolina. Those
familiar with Southern war statistics
are confident that the Virginia killed
and died of wounds exceeded that OF
any other State, except perhaps North
Carolina, yet her losses in this complll-
alton from the incomplete official re-
turns are but little more than half those
of the small State Of South Carolina.
The official records of the war show
conclusivcly in the running reports that
Alabama lost in killed and died OF
wounds fully Is, 900 men. The losses
of the "border States" Missouri, Ken
lucky and Maryland, are obviously in
complete. Missouri alone lost more
killed than is here stated. The re-
cords Of battles do not shcw that South
Carolina lost in killed and died OF
wounds such disproportion exceeding
the other States, excepting North Car
olina. Her troops fought very well,
and sometimes lost heavily, but the
losses Of Georgia, Alabama, Mississip-
pi and Louisiana regiments were Ger
tainly as great, if not greater, besides
which most of the States named togeth-
er with Virginia, had a greater number
of regiments engaged in most of the
great battles. The explanation Of the
figures is that the losses Of the Carolina
States are fully set out, whereas those
Of the others are only partially lnclud-
ed, because the official rolls were lost
in the hurly burly Of the wind up. But
enough is shown in this table to con-
firm the official records quoted by Col.
Fox, showing that the Confederate
killed and died of wounds numbered
fully 1000.
Of course the statement Of the aggrc-
gate that died Of disease is far below
the total. In the beginning Of the war
the Confederate regiments were terribly
ravaged by disease, as fugitive state
ments in the official records make per-
fectly plain. If North Carolina lost
20. .G02 of her soldiers by disease it IS
hardly credible that Georgia, furnishing
approximately the same number OF
troops, lost only 3,102 from the same
cause. 1t is probable, as has been
stated by high Southern authority III
recent years, chat the Confederate losses
from disease anproXimated closely to
l25, 600 men. IL IS easy to deduce
from the foregoing table that the death
from disease could hardly have fallen
short Of that total
The Confederate dead ike the Union
lie buried on every battlefield from
Gettysburg TO the mouth Of the Ric
Grandc. and at all the prison depot:
throughout the North. \ few OF then
dead have been exhumed here and there
and removed b. their friends, but there
has been no general care Of the Confcd
crate dead ike THAI which characterized
the Union policy, for the reason thai
there vas no central authority to dlrec
and no Government treasury to pay the
expense Of such an undertaking. The
South has always longcd 10 mark ant
care for the graves Of her dead soldier:
on similar plan seal e with that OF the
North. but, impoverished by the war
she has been unable 10 do so. Severa
patriotic societies have made efforts t
do something toward this much desired
end, but compared with the vastness o
the whole task but little may be said t.
have been accomplished.
In some Of the principal battles O
the war, selected from the various the;
tres, the gallant Confederates made tn
following losses in killed outright, th
figures not including those who after
ward died Of wounds: