The Grenada sentinel., 1899-11-11

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interesting Facts Relating to the Civil
| War.
-..,ssissippi Confederates will reat
with deep interest the following fact
and figures extracted from the report O
DR.. c. H. Tebault, of New Orleans. HI
is surgeon-general United Confederate
Veterans, and has been engaged. TO-
several years in compiling data relat
ing to the medical service of the Cou
federacy. This work has been rendered
difficult by the destruction, in April
1865, of the medical and surgical record,
deposited in the surgeon-general's Of
fee in Richmond.
The report from which these figure,
are taken is the one submitted by DR.
Tebault at the Atlanta reunion, 1898:
OF the thirty-four States and Territories
only eleven seeded. In these eleven States
the men Of military age-from IS to Il
years--numbered 1904, 1893, inclusive oi
lame, halt, blind, etc. On the Union side
the same class numbered 4,559,S72, over
four to one, without estimating the con
stant accessions from the world at large
augmenting constantly tho Union side.
The United States, in enlisted men, num-
bered 1856, ,02S against not exceeding co.,
600 on the side Of the Southern Confederacy.
With the States of Kentucky, Missouri,
Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee and
the remainder of the Southern States, the
remarkable fact appears, that the South
itself-the Slave States-gave exceeding
SOO,0 900 to the Union side, more than half
as many soldiers as comprised the entire
Confederate army. '.-' '-
In numbers the Federal loss was 67,05S
killed and 4S,0l2 died Of wounds; total,
110,070. OF the Confederates the like total
was 74524. The Confederates had So, 788
killed outright and 194,O26 wounded on the
field of battle. 1t is estimated that each Of
the 100000 Confederates, were on an
average, disabled for greater or lesser
periods, by wounds or sickness, about six
times during the war. The heroic, untir-
ing, important part thus borne by the skill
full Confederate surgeons in maintaining
in the field an effective army of unexampled
Confederate soldiers, must challenge par
ticular attention.
The report of Mr.. Stanton, as secretary
Of war, on the 10th of July, 1866, exhibits
the fact that of the Federal prisoners in
Confederate hands during the war, only
22,570 died; while of the Confederate
prisoners in Federal hands, 26,436 died.
This report does not set forth the exact
number of prisoners held by each side re-
spectively.
The whole number of Federal prisoners
captured by the Confederates and held in
Southerns prisons from first to last, during
the war, was in round numbers 1000,
while the whole number Of Confederates
captured and held in prisons by the Fed
erals was in like round numbers only 22O,-
600. From these two reports it appears
that with *, 600 more prisoners in Southern
stockades, or other modes Of confinement,
the deaths were 1900 less. According to
these figures, the percentum Of Federal
deaths in Southern prisons was under nine;
while the percentura Of Confederate deaths
In Northern prisons was over twelve.
These mortuary statistics are of no small
weight in determining on which side there
was the most neglect, cruelty and in
humanity, proclaiming as they do loss by
death Of more than 8 per cent. Of Confed-
crates over Federals in prisons, while the
Federals had an unstinted command of
everything.
The whole number Of Confederates sur
rendered from the 9th Of April, 1861, to the
26th of May, 1865, the date of final sur
render, under Gen. E. Kirby Smith, was,
according to the muster rolls, alittle under
l75,0OO. This embraces quite number,
who from disease and wounds were not
actually in the field at tho time. The whole
number of Federal forces then in the field
and afterward mustered out of service, as
the records show, amounted, in round
numbers, to 1,O5OOOO.
The total loss of killed and died of wounds
In the Franco-German war was 81 per
cent; that of the Austrians in the war
of 1886, 2.6 per cent. that of the Allies in
the Crimea, 3.2. But in our war the hemor-
rhage was far greater, for the Federals lost
~ per cent, and the Confederates over 0
per cent, the heaviest loss of any modern
army, that fell around its standard. have
here arranged skeleton of facts, which
with united and earnest purpose We can
fill out to its full and perfect professional
contour to the honor and credit Of our
Southland.
Hairy vctch.
The editor of the Southern Farm Ga
zette, Starkville, gets eloquent when
he talks of the hairy vetch on the col
lege farm. He says ut is as thick as 1t
can stand, although we have had but
half inch of rain. This is the twelfth
year that vetch has come up volunteer.
1t is getting to be as much at home as
the Japan clover, and comes up in the
fall just as certainly as Japan clover
comes in the spring. The vetch is do.
ing oil for Mississippi that we have
claimed for it, and more. With a rea.
sonably mild winter the college fields
will be worth coming far to see. Their
carpet of green may be seen miles away.
The splendid pasturage afforded will
hardly be surpassed by good summer
grasses, and the land.enriching quail.
ties of the vctch are not the least OF its
virtues" T ,.F.gH Fl