The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-07-18

as absent" with or without leave.
and who were not embraced on the
muster rolls made at the dates Of the
various surrenders. The number has
been generally placed at $4,000 men.
And yet have never seen any South
ern authority that admits the accuracy
of the estimate. It is an exageera
tion; but the figures can 60 in the
recapitulation as approximately"
true.
For the numbers representing the
''slain" on the battlefields and 'died
OF wounds and disease" we can only
approximate the Confederate losses il
comparison with the official Federal
fatalities Of similar character. Out of
the total enlistments Of the Federals,
about $500, 900, the mortalities re-
ported do not reach quite l2 per cent.
The Federal loss in the killed in bat
tie is 67 ,G5S. according TO government
statistics. Federal authorities place
the Confederate killed at 10 900, an
estimate doubtless near the correct
mark; although there we're only few
OF the great battles Of the war wherein
the Southern troops were the heaviest
sufferers in the killed. Franklin and
Nashville (Tenn.) aud Atlanta (Ga.)
were among them. At Fredcricks.
burg and Cold lIarbor. Va, and at
Vicksburg, Miss, the Federal losses
in killed were many times greater
than the Confederate The Southern
loss in deaths from wounds and dis
ease" has been placed at 235 900
about the same as the similar casual
ties in the Federal armies. The facil-
tiles for curing disease and healing
wounds were fearfully restricted and
limited in the Confederate hospi ,;
and hence the percentage Of losses on
this score was against the Southern
soldier.
In recapitulation of all the items
referred to the following appear:
Confederate troops
Surrendering, round numbers. .14O, 900
In Northern prisons at close of
Deaths in Northern prisons. $1,000
Released from Northern prisons. 10000
2s5. 200
Killed outright in battle. .. $4,000
Died OF wounds and disease. 2Y5, 900
Absent from roll at surrenders.. 10000
Estimate for manned soldiers re-
tired from service. ..... 10000
Total. .e55, 900
The world has never seen just such
an. exhibition of valor and heroic re-
sistance as displayed by the Confed-
crate soldier in chat long struggle for
Southern independence lin tho fight
to settle the question Of secession.
The records show that it was conflict
wherein the aggregated forces engaged
were in ratio Of about five to one
the Federal enlistments in army and
navy running up to more than 3,000,-
600, as against six hundred and fifty
odd thousand Confederates
The feature Of the long struggle
which the friends of the Confederate
soldier should never forget nor fail to
keep before the eyes of the world is
that which shows that tn. scutherner
was not defeated by his porthern bro
thers alone. Early ia the struggle the
Federal government realized the fact
that the South could not be beaten by
the North in single-hand contest.
And hence the great array Of oratori-
cal talent and "business" diplomats
with full purses, to temp, with offers
Of seductive bounty" the soldiers Of
fortune in the Old World. Nor did
Mr. Beecher and his able coadjutors
60 to Europe to plead for the cause Of
"the Union" They went having on
their lips the battle cry Of "Human
Liberty" and "Human Freedom and
such. And it was that cry there that
settled the fate of the Southern Con-
federacy. For in addition to the ma
tive-born Americans Of the Northern
States who offered their lives in de-
fense Of the Union, there were-ac-
cording to the official statistics fur
nished by the Federal secretary of war
more than 720, 900 foreigners who
came over and enlisted in the fight
against the South. If the South had
not been divided the issue even then
might have been different. But such
was not the case. Instead of present.
ing united front to the enemy we
were rent in twain over the issues;
and States which sent less than 7O0,-
600 soldiers to fight for the Southern
independence sent also more than $780,
900 Of their sons and their negroes to
aid the northerner and the foreigner
in crushing the Confederacy.
Nevertheless, the story Of the strug-
gle over secession is one in which
every true American can feel Just
pride; for the conflict was but de-
velopment of the American valor.
And not the least in portant feature OF
the conflict was in the fact that it
opened the eyes Of the outside world
to the power and possibilities Of the
American soldieiy. It certainly
placed tho United States government
in the highest position among the
most formidable Of all the military
powers Of the world. 1t led to the
downfall Of Spain; for without the pre-
cedent Of the past to deter them. we
would have had other nations OF Eu.
rope behind the Spaniard in 1898.
It is debt we owe to our national
pride 10 keep the story of the Con-
federate soldier and his record before
the world IL ziil NOT do For hia old