The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-15
THE "BLOODIEST BATTLE"
MOdder River NOwher Near the
Head of the List of Casualties.
New York Sun,

New YORK sun.
An unauthenticated cable dispatch from
London printed here yesterday contained a
statement that a message sent by Gen.
Methuep to Queen Victoria said that the
Modder river battle was the "bloodiest of
the century" 1t is not probable that Gen.
Methuen said any such thing. unless. pos
s:bly, he spoke will reference to the losses
in comparison with the total number of
men engaged. No report of the losses has
reached the public yet. AS the Beers en-
gagged was only about 5000, according to
the British reports, and General Methuen
is in command of only one division of the
British army sent to the Transvaal, no
battle between those forces could have been
the bloodiest of the century unless the
slaughter of both armies was complete.
At the battle of Austerlitz, Dec. 2. 1906. the
French lost 1000 officers and men and the
killed and wounded of the allies numbered
more than 5000. The French losses at Baut-
gen in 1913 were 5000 and at Wagram in 1909
they lost $4,000. although in that battle they
took 10000 .Austrians prisoners. AT the Mos
cOva on the retreat from Moscow they
lost 10000. At the great battle of Leipsic.
In 1913, a three-dayS' battle, the French
losses were $1,000. More than 10000 of the
French persisted on the field. altogether
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At Waterloo the British lost 6,932, the
French 2S.s50: The total losses of the al
lied armies there were 1896 killed and a.
539 wounded, besides 4.231 missing. In the
1855, the French lost 1,646 killed and 1850
wounded, besides 1,400 missing, and the
English lost sS5 killed, 1855 wounded and
l16 missing. At Pleyna between $4,000 and
Il, 600 Russians were killed and wounded,
the Turkish loss being 5000 less than the
Russian. About $1,000 men were killed on
both sides. In the war between Germany
and Austria in 1866 the Prussians lost 9,172
and the Austrians ABA at Koniggrutz, at
Nachod the Prussians 1882 and the Aus
TRANS 4,7S7. and Skalitz the Prussians 1865
and the Austrians ssh.
In the Franco-Prussian war the Germans
at Weissenburg-Worth lost 1884 and the
French 5000 in killed and wounded, besides
which the French lost 5000 prisoners. At
Vionville-Mars la Tour, the Germans lost
1879. or " per cent of their army, the
French loss being equally great. The Ger
mans at Colombey-Nouilly lost 1907, and
at Spickern. Ash. At Gravelot-St. Privat
the German loss, according to a German
authority. was 3,173. Another authority
600. At Sedan the Germans lost 1881. The
French Army of the North consisted Of
l5O, 600 men, and the three armies of Ger
many Of CSC, 900 men in that three days bat
tie, In which $50 French were taken pris-
OnerS.
In our civil war the aggregate losses at
the battle of Stone River were IL, 249 on
the Union side and 0.266 on the Confederate
side. These figures include killed, wounded,
captures and missing. The Union killed
were 1,730 and the Confederate 1924. Al
Antietam the Union killed numbered 2,10S,
the wounded 9.549. At the first Bull Run
battle 40 Union men were killed and Lon
were wounded, the Confederate figures be-
ing 3S7 killed and 1,5S2 wounded. At Fred
ericksburg 1,2S4 Union men were killed and
500 Confederate, the wounded numbering
$500 on the Union side and 4.06S on the Con-
federate. The total losses at this battle
were 1858 for the North and 5,315 for the
Union side at Fort Donelson and 466 on the
side of the South. the wounded numbering
respectively 2,10S and 1884. The South lost
in captured and missing 1889 and the
North ga. In the two days battle of Shiloh
the Northern dead numbered 1,7o4, the
Southern LIB; the Northern wounds
S,40S and the Southern S,012. At Fair Oaks
$50 Northern men and $50 Southern were
killed. the North losing in wounded, 1884
and the South 4,49. At uains's mill the
North's aggregate loss was 6.S37 and the
in the Northern army and 800 in the South
ern. the wounded being 3.430 and 1,540.
Chickamauga's two days battle resulted in
dead, 1855; wounded, 9,749 on the Union
side. and 2.312 dead and 1864 wounded on
the side of the Confederates. At Gettys-
burg the Union losses in killed were 1910,
wounded. Ia, 49,. and the Confederates', 2.592
dead, 1850 wounded. The killed in the
Union Army at the Wilderness numbered
Gettysburg, is a three days record and the
figures for Charlottesville. one day longer,
are: Union dead. i,606; wounded, 9,762. Con-
federate, 1,665 and 9,0S1 respectively.