The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-10-18
LOSSES AT GETTYSBURG.
Confederate Losses known Nov to Have
Been Quite 10000.
Ne,c York Sun.

i Grand Army reunion at Philadelphia
4 have started again the old discussion
q about the Confederate strength aid
4 losses in the Gettysburg campaign Of
4 1868, both moot questions and both Of
4 bistorica! Importance as we'll as of
a general interest. The numbers en-
4 raged and the losses Of the two oppos.
q ing armies in the battle of Gettysburg
d are set out in the Government publ
q cation Of records of the war, being
4 embodied in Volume 27 in three parts.
4 The aggregate of Union losses, com
4 piled from complete official returns Of
4 every Federal command, engaged in the
A Pennsylvania campaign, was 23,049
q men killed, wounded and missing.
4 These figures are undisputed; they
4 have been accepted and quoted un-
4 changed by all writers on the subject
4 ever since Gen. Meade made his off
a eial report in August, 1863.
j Now, unfortunately for historians,
4 there was no like and corresponding
5 complete official report of the Confed-
Il crate casualties, covering in detail all
The commands engaged. The docu-
i ment, SO called, most often cited in
4 historical discussions is a mere sum-
4 mary of Confederate killed and wound
He'd, made up by Surgeon L.. Guild.
a Gen. Lees medical director. 1t is
Il very unsatisfactory, being palpably
q Incomplete and inaccurate, and 30 in
4 licated by the conscientious compi-
lers of the official publication referred
Il to in footnotes and otherwise. Sever
ai commands are entirely omitted;
3others estimated are inconsistent with
known facts, and still others are ire
aeonciliable with the detailed reports
aof the commanding officers. DR..
aGuild's summary accounts for only q
il6S3 killed and 1880 wounded; total,
il6,O52. It makes no record of the
missing, large numbers of whom
were known to have been killed and
s3Vounded.
a Following DR.. Guilds compilation
aof killed and wounded is a second
Summary of Confederate losses, which
aincude the missing. This is COM
Apiled from the general official reports
83of the various commands of the army.
@As in DR.. Guilds report, some of
&hese were incomplete, while from
4 many subordinate commands no re-
Hports whatever are on file in the de-
apartment archives. In this summary
killed and wounded do not vary much
from the totals in Guilds report,
(Which, in fact, was the main authori-
dy on these heads. The aggregate
8Confederate loss is summed up in this
9s!s.eaeat &c follows: Killed, 1852,
grounded. 1900; missing, s, 5,150; to-
ahl, 2O.451.
Il In o bracketed Introductory note to
this official summary of Confederate
losses the Government compilers, OBJ
1servipg numerous discrepancies be-
tween the totals Of DR.. Guild and 9TH
Hers and those of the regimental, bri-
Sgade and other commanders Of the
4 confederate army, remark: "Owing to
#he absence> Of subordinate reports
such disagreements cannot be explain
8fd. Whether taken in detail or as q
Fhole, the compilation can only be re-
sgsrded as approximate. Several of the
sseports indicate that many Of the
Missing were killed or wounded"
sfome idea Of the extent Of these va
Fiations and consequent misleading
character Of this report may be gath
Pred from the returns relating to Law 8
brigade. a difference. Of 122 is shown
sRy the regimental reports of losses
over the brigade summary totals. This
Excess occurred in the returns Of four
|3egiments. The detailed regimental
B eport Of the 10Th Georgia, 6f Ben
|aAing's brigade, shows loss Of III
81 Zilled, wounded and missing; in the
|Rficial summary the total loss Of the
Georgia regiment is carried at only 72
precisely the number of killed and
pounded reported in Surgeon Guilds
summary AS there were 170 regiments
|3f Confederate infantry at Gettysburg
E will be seen what wide door is thus
7Rpened for speculation. Gen. Lanes
Brigade is set down in the summary
HFith a loss Of 3s9: Lane himself re-
ported his loss at 66O, difference Of
Mn. Again, the Confederate official
@sparts state their aggregate missing
~ only $3.50 men, whereas the Union
& POLLS of prisoners Of war carried the
Efames of 1927 wounded and un-