Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-12-19

"wait Till you see the whites of the
eyes of the Brltlshers, and then FIRE at
their waistbandsw At Stone River
the Confederates rolled the Federal
line up from left TO right. The battle
was mainly fought In dense thickets.
Had Napoleon lost Marengo he would
have lost his army, for 1t was isolated
in the enemy's country. At 8 o'clock
in the afternoon the day was lost, but
he turned the tide by the most fright.
full sacrifice Of his best troops.
Chickamauga was a field where the
battle waged fercely around one point.
In defending the road for retreat on
the Federal left Thomas won fame
as the Rock of Chickamauga," and
there the assailants piled their fallen
the thickest. There the defenders died
In their tracks.
Antietam left behind its Bloody
Lane" piled with dead; It's "Sunken
Road" Its "Cornfield," where the fall.
en- lay In rows. with their dead leaders
In position just In the advance. The
loss Of 10000 killed and wounded took
place between daylight and noon. The
field Of Shiloh was fought over in de.
tail twice. The bloodiest spot was
the Hornets Nest" where the Con-
federate leader, A. Sidney Johnston,
was killed. Cold Harbor was but half
as bloody as Shiloh in percentages, yet
there were regiments there which lost
half their numbers in a single dash.
Fredericksburg had its slaughter
pen at the famous stone wall, which
was stormed again and again, each
line apparently spurred with the desire
to leave its dead little nearer the
barrier than its predecessors.
The bloodiest battles of the civil war,
in the order of the highest aggregate
loss, where the number killed outright
reached 1000 on each side:
I. Gettysburg. 1868. 5000 Union and 5000
Coniederates opposed. Union loss, 1862 kill
ed and wounded; Confederate. l5.3ol; total.
$3.50.
4 spottsyivania, 1864 The Union loss in killed
and wounded was 1914. The forces opposed
approximately lls.O0O Union and $1,000
Confederate.
8. Wilderness. 1904 Union loss. killed and
wounded, 1i,2s3; Confederate RECORDS incom.
plete
4. Chickamauga, 1868. 5000 Union and II. 500
Confederates opposed. Union loss in killed
and wounded. ll.io6; Confederate, 1851; to-
tai, %, ,206.
900 Confederates opposed. Union loss, H. 500
killed and wounded; Confederate, lO.755; to-
tai, 22,123.
q. Antietam, lsG2. eo,ooo Union and 40, 900 Con.
federates engaged. Union loss, 1l,s57 killed
and wounded; Confederate, 9,32S; total, 2O9S5.
.u.l rCr mn Il. anna 80
crates engaged. Union loss, l0lG2 killed and
wounded; Confederate. o,7i0; total, 1892.
8. Cold Harbor, 1864. lis,000 Union and ca OCo
Confederatcs opposed. Union loss. 1921 kill.
ed and wounded; Confederate. comparatively
slight.
Q. Second Bull Run, or Manassas, 1862. 6sOoc
Union and 81, 900 Confederates engaged. I'm.
ion loss. 10.l90 in killed and wounded; Con.
federate, o,365; total, 1854.
10. Stone River, 1852. 5000 Union and 1900
Confedcrates engaged. Union loss. 0,5s2 killed
and wounded; Confederate. $3.50; total. ls,77l.
II. fredericksburg, 1862. $4,000 Union and CO.,
900 Confederates opposed. Union loss TO- ssi
killed and wounded; Confederate, 4,72i; total,
l5,60s.
Conservative estimates place the loss
in killed and wounded at Eilau as 4O.-
900. The figures of Gettysburg are Of
fetal. and the total is little short Of
$4,000. Eilau belongs to the smooth
bore and Gettysburg to the rited bar
rel era. AS weapons improve casual
ties grow less In percentages. The
highest percentage in the Franco Prus-
sian war. with the areechloader, was
10, at Mars-laTour, and the highest
aggregate 10000, at Gravelotte. The
killed numbered about 5000 at Grave
lotte. At Gettysburg the mortality
was over 5000 out of $4,000 casualties.
GEORGE l.. KILMER.