The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-08

MOdder River Nowhere Near the
Head of the List of Casualties.

From the New York sun.
An unauthentitated cable dispatch from
London printed here contained state
ment that message sent by Gen. Me-
thuen TO Queen Victoria said that the
Modder river battle was the bio -diest of
the century. 1t Is not probable that
Gen. Methuen said any such thing, unless,
possibly, he spoke with referen to the
loss in compar sen with the total num-
Der of men engaged. No report Of he
losses has reached the public yet. AS the
number of Beers engaged was only about
5000, according to the British repor S, and
Gen. Methuen IS in command of only one
division of the British army sent TO the
1ransvaal, no battle between those forces
could have been he bloodiest If the cen
fury unless the slaug liter of both armies
was complete. In the battle of Aus err
liz, Dec. 2 1905, the French lost 1905 Off
GERS and men, and The killed and wound
ed of the allies Numbered mere than $500.
The French .osses al 6autzen in 1918 were
1900 ard at w am in 1909 ,hey lost
$500 although in that battle they took
10000 Aust ian p.iso ers. At the Mo cova,
on the retreat from Mos ow, tAey lost
cO,WO At tne great bat e of Lei SIC, in
1913, three-days' battle, the French loss
es were 5000. More than 1900 of the
French persisted on the field, altoge her,
$4,000 men persisted on the field.
At Waterloo the British lost $3.50, the
French 2SS5O. The total losses of the al
lied armies there were 1926 killed ard A.
$50 wounded, besides 4,2S1 missing. In
the last great attack on Sebastopol. Sept.
8, 1855, the French lost 1646 killed and $500
wounded, besides 1,4OO missing, and the
English lost 1856 Killed, 1856 wounded and
176 missing. At Plevna between $4,000
and 10000 Russians were killed and wound
ed, the Turkish loss being about 5000 less
than the Russian. About 16, 900 men were
killed on both sides. In the war between
Germany and Austria, in 1866 the Prus-
slams lost 9,172 and the Austrians ABA,
at Koniggratz; at Nachod the Prussans
1882 and the Austrians 4,7S7 and at Ska
litz the Prussians 1905 and the Austrians
5577.
In the Franco russian war the Ger
mans at Weissenburg- Worth lost 12914
and the French 5000 in killed and wound
ed, besides which the French lost So 900
prisoners. AT Vionville-Mars la Tour, the
Germans lost 1873 or p per cent of their
army the French loss being equally great
The German at Colombey-Nouilly lost A.
907 and at Spickern 4,871. At Gravelot-
st. Privat the German loss, according 10
German authority, was 0173. Another
authority puts it at 25,000 and the French
loss at 1900 At Sedan the Germans lost
S,9S1. The French Army OF the North
consisted of 10000 men and the three
armies of Germany of 100000 men in that
three days battle, in which 5000 French
were taken prisoners
In our Civil War the aggregate losses
at the battle of stones river were 10. 2i9
on the Union side and 1926 on the Con-
federate side. These figures include
killed, wounded, captured and missing.
The Union killed were 1,730 and the Con-
federate, 1924 At Antietam the Union
killed numbered 210S, the wounded 9.549
AT the first Bull Run battle 40 Union men
were killed and 1,071 were wounded, the
Confederate figures being 3S7 killed and
1852 wounded. At Fredericksburg 1924
Union men were killed and 596 Confeder-
ate, the wounded numbering 1900 on the
Union side and 4,06S on the Confederate
The total losses at this battle were Il, 653
for the North and 5,315 for the South
Five hundred were killed on the Union
side at Fort Donelson and 1866 on the side
of the South, the wounded numbering re-
spectively 2.1OS and 1854. The South lost
in captured and missing 1889 and the
North On In the two-days' battle of Shi-
loh the Northern dead numbered LISA, the
southern LIB; the Northern wounded S,40S
and the Southern, SOP. At Fair Oaks 100
Northern men and $50 Southern were kill
ed, the North losing in wounded 1854 and
the South, 4,749. AT Gains mill the North's
aggregate loss was 6,SS7 and the South's
S751. AT Cedar Creek ga were killed IN
the Northern army and 800 in the South
ern, the wounded being R.43O and 1,540
Chickamaugas two days battle resulted
in dead, 1855; wounded, 9,749 on the Union
side, and 2312 dead and 1854 wounded on
the side of the Confederates. AT Gettys-
burg the Union losses in killed We're 1910
wounded IA 497, and the Confederates' 1852
dead, 1880 wounded. The killed In the
Union army at the Wilderness numbered
2246 wounded, 120S7. This, like that of
Gettysburg, is a three-days' record and
the figures for Charlottesville, one day
longer. are Union dead, 1,S06; wounded,
9762; Confederate, ,665 and 9,0S1 respec-
Il