The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-01-25

,n the Confederate oeao .na' na'io"a'
j u. ,a,e,;es shall be provided for them
q = n the case Of the Union dead Of the
q ;. ,bep the question, Where are the
~ '.,sderate dead? becomes one Of
4 H., H., Importance. So does another:
! 'u'a SI',, many Confeder.tes died aud were
% ;ed during the civil war?
s. M rhe official returns Of death losses
q ,bs Confederate armies on file in
81. vsr department in Washington
incomplete and unsatisfactory.
E,sry all the rolls Of Alabama troops
=. missing, aud those Of uone Of the
E,,,ps are complete. The actual cx-
-, of their losses by disease aud
..o.,,ies 10 battle must ever remain
81 n.,,er Of conjecture. The losses in
IN. Iluion armies from the complete
81, rolls, accurdiug TO the original
s2,Sulstion supposed TO have been az
81 lately kept, were subsequently
,,,elY increased in the item Of kill
ga o o. d ed Of wounds" based upon the
Fl 1zl, l,os,s officially known as the ''fiual
A,,emepts, aud through the invcsti-
s3I,iou Of pension Claims. This tabu-
lion as finally revised and correct
shows that those who died of
' s.ease ip the Union armies were in
! ratio Of two TO one of those killed
81. h.,tle or died Of wounds. That is
SAY, lO9, 9,e39 men we're killed or died
Wounds, while 224,586 Union sol
.3I,rs died Of disease.
i, Almost Immediately after the war
8 a. over the national government set
foot measures to identify its vast
4 my Of dead in so far as it was posi-
/, to collect the remains in national
lueteries and mark their graves.
6s ssenty.six cemeteries were establish
sl throughout the Union, which in
hides one in the city Of Mexico.
2Aere the dead Of the Mexican war
collected, Northern and Southern
G Gpg side by side in that far Of ccme-
b. The majority Of these beauti-
cemeteries, carefully cared for and
bon which large sums Of money arc
3 uuslly expended, are in the South
IHh States. But thousands Of the
bion dead lie buried in the North,
bere they died in hospital and while
home on sick leave. In nearly all
pes the government owns the ground,
@d all The improvements are Of a
y bling character. There has been an
az deavor to erect grave markings
bich would last for ages. In these
! neterics the soldier 8 grave is mark
BY small marble block projecting
m put foot above ground, sometimes
Rh his name carved upon it, bat
perally it merely carries number,
\ in book in the superintcndcnt's 8
there is q corresponding mum.
with the dead mans name opro-
/, or the sad word "unknown."
Now, this great work Of collecting.
2atifying and marking the burial
ices Of the Union dead was begun
1.3SA SAediately after the war, when it
easy to come at every source of
NJ ormation concerning these deceased
dlers. yet it is shocking fact that
IS Of total CT 33s00 33ss00 ,2G7 Union dead
|# graves Of 139, ,495 arc marked un-
@!=e eTn notwithstanding the great ia
tiles then existing for identification.
f'i 1920 Union negro soldiers
ped 10 these cemeteries 2O,5O3 are
N Known.
M nder such favorable circumstances
1m'rc than one-third of the Union
3s had to be marked unknown.
f will DC the result of any system
q attempt to collect and mark the
fe> OF the Confederate dead, thirty
yeas after the war? Probably
)uIy "nc-tenth Of the occupants of
graves found could with any de-
II Of certainty be identified, besides
1sl the burial place of thousands Of
3i confederate dead in the nature Of
2ss ''annot be found at all. More
"a '"'ooO Union men, killed or lied
''ease, we're lost entirely, and arc
eaTFled on these cemetery rolls az
F' SHOWN OF unknown. These
Ife are appalling, yet it is easy to
pfehend their magnitude in view
a'. the circumstances war ;
u wide theatre and numerous
3les and skirmishes in dense woods
@ "''Ach ground. IL is likely that
Proportion Of Confederate dead.
.asfins their inadequate facilities
Kinds for caring for the sick in
''a' and wounded on. the battle
completely lost to all ken, would
uiy as great as the Union figures,
9o:h their losses were considera-
4 iIesS IN the anprerafc while rreatnr